Despite continuous rain, the usual flooding of the Metro and Thunderstorm "Egay" that pounded the city on August 18, Silversmash 2007, the 2nd Paulinian Badminton Tournament, organized by St. Paul College Q.C. High School Batch '83, was a smashing success.

More than 380 players from as far as Ilocos Norte, Pangasinan, Pampanga and Lucena trouped to Centro Atletico, Quezon City for the 2-day event presented by Finix Corporation and Gatorade.

Participants were given t-shirts from CranUTI and Gargol, Gatorade shoe bags, Crystal Clear water, and were treated to scoops of ice cream from Better Than Ice Cream (BTIC), pizza from Tacomio and corndogs from Nachofast.

More than P70,000 in prizes from Nike Women, Nike Forum, Sun Cellular, McDonald’s, Premium Logic and Prince were awarded to the winners of the tournament.

The event was also sponsored by Myra 300E, PH Care, Valeza Construction, ING Bank and its online media partners Yehey.com and Yourbadminton.com.

St. Paul College Quezon City Batch ’83 would like to thank all their sponsors and everyone who participated and made this tournament possible.

The tournament was for the benefit of St. Paul Schools in Buug, Zamboanga, Medellin, Cebu, St. Anthony School in Misamis Oriental and Carmel Academy in Polilio, Quezon.