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Break the Guinness World Record

Dear Alumni,

Perhaps you may aware the Hong Kong Joint Universities Alumni (Ontario),安省香港專上校友會聯會 and had participated various activities in the past.

For those who may be new to HKJU, the alumni consists of:-

Hong Kong Baptist University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chu Hai University
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Lingnan University
Shue Yan University
University of Hong Kong
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Joined 2017)
City University of Hong Kong (Joined 2017)

Each year, HKJU will organize activities for the alumni to participate and promote friendship among us. Activities such as table-tennis, badminton, bowling, basketball, volleyball, fun games, talent show, gala dinner etc. were held in the past.

This year, to celebrate Canada 150th birthday and 20th Anniversary of return of Hong Kong to China for 20 years, the HKJU committee (headed by Baptist University) has decided to organize an event to break the Guinness World Record of ‘Most People Bouncing Table Tennis Ball With Table Tennis Racket Continuously For At Least 10 Seconds’.

We need your participation and with all our efforts, we will have a better chance to set a new Guinness World Record. The current record is 250 people from Japan.

Event details:

Dates : Sunday, October 15, 2017

Venue: Pan Am Centre, Markham

Time : 12:00 – 17:00 (12:00 – 14:30 – breaking record, 15:00 – 17:00 – Fun Game)

All family member with at least 13 years of age are welcome.

If you are interested, please complete the attached registration form and email to Romeo Au, romeoyhau@hotmail.com, our representative in HKJU on or before Tuesday, August 8, 2017. Please don’t think you are not sporty enough to participate. We will arrange practices so everyone will be confident before the event. More details will be forwarded once we have all our registration completed.

Attached files:
1) Rules of the Event GWR_rules
2) Registration Form HKUAAO_registration_form
3) Demo Video (we only need to bounce for 10 seconds)

Let’s work together and make this a reality.