Dwars door Hasselt 2009

The results of the 15km run:

Place	Name	Time
78	OEYEN JAN	0:55:47
970	LUISETTO JIMMY	1:10:11
1675	VERCKENS JOHAN	1:16:24
2125	VAN LANGENDONCK WILLEM	1:21:13
2621	DEVEEN FRANCIS	1:27:28

The results of the 10km run:

Place	Name	Time
1682	VRACHTEN GERT	1:04:29

The results of the 5km run:

Place	Name	Time
894	NIJS PAUL	25:37
2448	SEVERI LEEN	35:13
1300	BOUDEWIJNS RAF	27:32
1381	HENRIX STEVEN	27:56

Results can be found at this site
Notice the video camera icon at the result, it will show you the finish of that participant.

Photos can be found on our CernumInMotion Picasa
Thanks to Jeroen Devlieghere for the photos.

Tennis Tournament 2009

Impression by Steven Reynaert

Cernum Open returned in full glory to gravel this year, on a rather sunny afternoon somewhere in East-East-Flanders.
The weather was pretty good so as a results of this, single matches were played instead of doubles, giving each player plenty of freedom to explore their own (sometimes rather funny and weird ) strategies.

Although Cernum Open is initially about having fun, a subtle smell of competition always hangs in the air.
In order to keep everything fair, everyone was divided into two competitions. 1 for ‘beginners’ and 1 for the ‘superiors’. Each competition was again divided into two subgroups in which 4 contestants were faced off again each other in nail-biting, breathtaking matches.
Eventually, in each competition, the first two off each subgroup were pitted again each other to decide who would rise, and who would fall. Below are the results of these finals.

Advanced
1 Hugo
2 Werner
3 Gilles
4 Bart

Beginners
1 StevenP
2 Yves
3 Anneleen
4 Michael

Eitherway, thumbs up for everyone!!
Big thanks to Renaat and Mario for the photos.



A big thanks to Steven for the impression.
Photos can be found on our CernumInMotion Picasa

Table Tennis Tournament

Impression by Michaël Goossens

On Sunday December the 14th, the first Cernum Table Tennis tournament took place in far, far away: Geert his home town Galmaarden.

36 players showed up! And this time, even I arrived on time :-)

To give all the participants the chance to play as many matches as possible, a complex program divided them amongst 2 advanced groups and 5 beginner groups.

But before the tournament could start, the local table tennis hero Filoe had to give us all a lecture about table tennis.

After battling through the group stages, 16 players qualified themselves for the final elimination round.

This resulted in a very high standard final between Bert 'The Mercenary' Schrauwen and Kevin De Cock.

Results:
Final: Bert Schrauwen - Kevin De Cock (3-0)
Battle for 3rd Place: Michael Goossens - Glenn Tordeurs (3-0)
Overall, I think the tournament was a big success!

Therefore: Big Thanks to TTC Galmaarden and everyone who helped to make this Cernum InMotion event possible.

Hope to see you all back next year!

For all the pictures, check out: http://picasaweb.google.com/CernumInMotion/TableTennisTournament2008#

Special thanks to Sammy Dierickx and his girlfriend for their pictures!

LAN Party

Impression of the LAN Party on Saturday:

By Thomas Louis:

I arrived at the scene at about 14.30. Few people were already there. But as we already knew, most of the people would drop by in the course of the afternoon. After solving some server issues (apparently Saskia was hosting a TrackMania server) and a lot of disconnects, we all started playing TrackMania as a preparation to the tournament of 20.00. This turned out to be a crazy race. If you took a wrong turn, you could start all over again. After 30 minutes of intense racing, we had a winner. It was Jan Verslegers who beat everyone and got away with the main prize. After some fresh heads most of us wound down playing some Fear and others with OpenArena (already as a preparation for the tournament of Sunday). EricT’s children were for sure having fun participating in most of the games and became addicted to Saskia’s laptop and ofcourse the Wii.
I think this was a great initiative and that the Second Edition will follow soon!

Impression of the LAN Party on Sunday:

By Olivier Schietecat:

Sunday's LAN-party was certainly one to remember. On arrival, I startled the bunch that had slept over at the high school. Saskia was cleaning up her professional camping material, while Michael was looking his very best. After having set up my laptop (which didn't compare to Sammy's gaming assets), we could finally begin the in-game slaughter. After Saskia went hunting for food on a late Sunday noon, we soon noticed who was going to win the OpenArena tournament: Cristian Ciuperca aka Lucifer! We exploded, got butchered, headshotted and finished gruesomely, and we enjoyed it! Afterwards, we switched to the game FEAR, which turned out to have a great 3D engine. It's safe to say we enjoyed killing eachother after all those days of peaceful cooperation.

By Sammy Dierickx:

The first Cernum LAN Party was a success! A great location, lots of PC and console games, more than enough food and drinks and a great atmosphere!
Even though I was only there on Sunday for a couple of hours I really enjoyed the games we played.

I especially enjoyed getting into close combat with my colleagues in a couple of very intense rounds of “F.EA.R. Combat”, which turned out to be a surprisingly well balanced first person shooter with great game play and a very high fun factor! I think this may be a runner-up for the next LAN Party tournament. For those of you who still believe first person shooters are a guys only thing, think again! We had a very worthy opponent in Saskia who handled her assault rifle very well and surprised me a few times with a couple of well aimed headshots and even a few frag grenades!

The fact that we got surprised by heavy snowfall and that it took me nearly four hours(!) to drive back home couldn’t really spoil the fun I had at the LAN Party.
It may have been the first, but certainly not the last one we organized (but I would prefer it to be held on a sunny day though)!

For all the pictures of the LAN Party, check out: http://picasaweb.google.com/CernumInMotion/LANParty2008#

Golf Initiation

Impression of the golf initiation by Michael (and Eric Tordeurs):

I focus my attention on the ball, I say a tough line: "I'm gonna get you sucker!!!" The golf coach is watching, I have to hit the ball or he'll kick my ass. The pressure, I can't handle it... but I have to.
I swing the club like we were told to do and POW!!! Off he goes, like a rocket! 125m Ow yeah.

"Beginner's luck!", the coach says. And I think he was right. The next balls all went 1m over the edge OR far far and away... In the field with the cows on the right, over and over.

Hans Devos told me that there's a reason the golf balls have these small holes on the surface. The size of the holes has an effect on how the ball flies through the air (if you get it off the ground in the first place).

But I think "my balls" only had holes in them on the right side, or the left side, or whatever.
Anyway I had a great time, I think most people did.
So that evening the cows ate a lot of golf balls. We didn't! We had one hell of a great meal!

Also the atmosphere at the après-golf reached the meanwhile well known level of fun and ‘laughing out loudly’ !

However … a hidden side of the youngest attendee showed up unexpectedly… “enjoy” her paparazzo work in attached photo book …

Thanks Sas for another great experience at Cernum!!!

I'm looking forward to the next event, being the pingpong tournament … If YOU didn’t subscribe yet : shame on you ! ;-)

Greetz,

Michael

For all the pictures of the golf (and après-golf!) check out: http://picasaweb.google.com/CernumInMotion/GolfInitiation#

Tennis Tournament 2008

Impression by Kevin:



The Cernum Open is becoming a pretty big tournament on the international tennis calendar.
I guess it is ranked in the top ten by now, not so much behind Wimbledon and Roland Garros.

This year we had the honour to invite 12 double teams for the tournament.
Some participants were a little more experienced than others, but all eager and ready to show off their great serve or their destroying forehand.
At some point even Mario was willing to give us a little demonstration of how to hit a homerun (although I think he mixed up some sports. But trying to be remembered …)

After some heroic battles (remember the clash between the Tordeurs and the Wijns families) in the qualifiers, 6 teams fought their way up to participate in one of the 3 grand finals.

Clearly you could feel the tension in the arena, some of them trembling of excitement (stress, stress, stress), and hoping not to miss their appointment with history.

And, the remaining of the story is history …

One day (somewhere in 2090) a little child will ask his father how the name of his grandfather ended up on that list with great champions like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and many more … those who won the “Cernum Open”!


Results by Saskia:

Sunday 07/09/2008: we hoped it would be a beautiful day to play tennis...unfortunately it was raining cats and dogs...but that didn’t stop all the enthusiastic players (beginners and advanced) to show up and play doubles on the indoor courts. We had 4 groups with each 3 teams. After the first 2 matches, the semi-finals and finals for first, second and third place were played. Results of the finals:

Final for 3rd place:

Dave De Poorter + Anneleen De Vos
against
Yves De Kelper + Michael

Final for 2nd place:

Michel Smekens + Koen De Koker
against
Glenn Tordeurs + Renaat Van Dorpe

Final for 1st place:

Kevin De Cock + Lien Marien
against
Eric Tordeurs + Leen Tordeurs

Winners:

3rd place: Yves De Kelper + Michael (6-3)
2nd place: Michel Smekens + Koen De Koker (6-4)
1st place: Kevin De Cock + Lien Marien (6-3)

Congratulations to all players!

You can check out the pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/CernumInMotion/TennisTournament2008#

Dodentocht 2008

08/08/2008 was indeed a good day to start on the challenge of walking 100km in 24hrs, aka the Dodentocht! Believers Geert Wouters, Jimmy Laureys and Steven Reynaert (and their friends Kurt and Mario) started around 21h00 in Bornem (some more prepared than others but all highly motivated). The supporters Christel, Katleen and I followed them by car to provide them with food, drinks and care every 5km. Soon the group split up, due to changing and different paces, this meant more work for the followers, but on the bright side this also meant: lower risk to fall asleep while waiting for the walkers to arrive at the cars :-)
The first painful stop was in the morning, after 50km: besides breakfast, we also took care of aching blisters, sore muscles and fading motivation...But off they went, for the second part of their challenge!
Unfortunately Steven and Mario had to cease their attempt to finish the 100km...But congratulations to both, after all, they DID walk 60km.
And also congratulations to Jimmy, he pushed himself to extremes but unfortunately he had to throw in the towel after 65km.
At this time, the followers had to split up because Kurt was in the lead, followed by Geert, but with approximately 2hrs difference. The last 20 km were a mental struggle for both, but we are proud to say that they made it! Kurt finished around 17h45 and Geert reached the end around 21h00, congratulations guys! Remarkable and impressive display of persistence and endurance!

See you all next year for the 40th edition of the Dodentocht?

Check out the pictures before, during and after: http://picasaweb.google.com/CernumInMotion/Dodentocht08082008