Event Introduction

The Chancellor Siti Hasmah Challenge Cup, named after Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah bt. Mohd Ali, was contested for the first time in Multimedia University (MMU) in January, 2002. The badminton tournament, which is going to be held similar to the format of the Thomas and Uber Cup, will be gathering all the representative players from all government and private universities and colleges with an objective to create a conducive environment for engineering new talents in local badminton arena. The privilege is given to Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah as she has been putting outstanding and persistent effort in supporting Malaysian badminton as well as her tremendous work in contributing the social community of Malaysia. The tournament may become one of the greatest events here as Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah bt. Mohd Ali is also the chancellor of MMU.

The first Chancellor Siti Hasmah Challenge Cup 2002 was held on the 11^th to 13^th of January 2002 organized by Multimedia University Badminton Club (Cyberjaya). Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) was the winner of the tournament whereas Universiti Malaya (UM) became the 1^st runner-up. The following year, UPM proved its supreme power and defended the challenge cup successfully. At 2004, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) had an edge over UPM and clinched the title from UPM. In year 2007, University of Malaya had finally become the champion of this tournament.

Started from year 2010, we have changed the event name into MMU Chancellor Challenge Cup. In addition, we were honored to invite Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah bt. Mohd Ali as the patron of MMU Chancellor Challenge Cup 2010. The champion of the year was Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and UPM was the 1^st runner-up.

In year 2012, Multimedia University Badminton Club (Melaka) is going to organize MMU Chancellor Challenge Cup 2012. This tournament will be held tentatively from 30^th March to 1^st of April 2012. In order to make this a professional and grand event, we are going to co-operate with MBA (Melaka Badminton Association) to organize this intervarsity tournament. Additionally, we also hope that this tournament may become one of the prestigious university level’s events. For this intervarsity event, we are going to invite all the local universities and private universities in Malaysia. Thus, we hope that there are 10 teams participating in the MMU Chancellor Challenge Cup 2012.