[ARCHIVE] Inspiration of Bullseye's 2023 Christmas Tree

 

[ARCHIVE] Preliminary design of Chee Fooi Foon's name for Sports Day 2023.

 

[ARCHIVE] 2023 Lettering Design for Chee Fooi Foon

 

[ARCHIVE] Sports Day 2023 Score Chart

 The information covers the Telematch Events until the 2023 Sports Day, from March to November 2023.

[ARCHIVE] Preliminary Sports Day 2020 Calendar, 23rd March 2019

 Published on 23rd March 2019.

[ARCHIVE] Complete Sports Day 2020 Calendar, Cancelled due to Covid 19

 

2026 Sports Day Replacement Events

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The 2026 Sports Day Replacement Events are a series of events designed to replace the 2026 Sports Day, which was cancelled for the year 2026 to make way for the 2026 School Concert. This cancellation of Sports Day is the first known cancellation since the Covid 19 pandemic, which affected the 2020, 2021 and 2022 sports tallies. The replacement events consist of the 2026 Telematch Competition and the 2026 Founder's Run. Other names known by the students to describe the 2026 Sports Day Replacement Events are the Ignite 2026 Telematch Competition, 2026 Sports Events, 2026 Founder's Run and Telematch Competition, 2026 Telematch and Founder's Run, 2026 Sports Day Subsitute Events and Events to Replace Sports Day.

The 2026 Sports Day Replacement Events is the first such event series held since 2022, when a series of events called the 2022 Nobel Cup & Associated Events replaced the 2022 Sports Day with the 2022 Founder's Run, 2022 Telematch Competition and 2022 Nobel Cup. The 2026 events schedule consisted of two main events; the 2026 Telematch Competition and the 2026 Founder's Run, to form an overall tally to replace the 2026 Sports Day.

The winner of the 2026 Sports Day Replacement Events was Slamdunk, who managed to defend its 2025 Sports Day victory title won during the UNLEASH - Sports Day 2025 held on 28th February 2025 at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium. Slamdunk was announced as the 2026 Champion House during the Founder's Run on 9th May 2026 at the Putrajaya Wetlands Park. Slamdunk consequently became the third house after Bullseye and Touchdown to win a back-to-back champion house victory; Bullseye became the first team to win its first back-to-back victory on 9th April 2014 and 2nd April 2015, during the 2014 and 2015 Sports Days; and subsequently did it again during the 2019 and 2020 Sports Day tallies. Touchdown became the second house to do so during the 2017 and 2018 Sports Days, on 31st March 2017 and 29th March 2018.

In this sports tally, Slamdunk consequently became the second house to win all the tournaments held in the same calendar year, after Bullseye won the Sports Day and Nobel Cup during the years 2014 and 2015, and again in 2022 and 2023 by winning the overall tally, Sports Day, Nobel Cup and Founder's Run. Slamdunk managed to achieve this in 2026 by winning the Telematch and the Founder's Run, both held in 2026. The victory of Slamdunk ended Bullseye's sole dominance as a house that had won many events in back to back years as well as all sports events in the same calendar year. 

Background

The 2026 Sports Day was planned to be an upcoming Sports Day of  Nobel International School which was scheduled to take place on an undetermined date in 2026. As of the predictions by Wei Yiang, the 2026 Sports Day is predicted for Friday, 10th April 2026. Slamdunk is the defending champion of Sports Day and is poised to be a formidable force in the 2026 Sports Day.

The 2026 Sports Day is the first Sports Day to include students from Year  7 born in the year 2014. This means  it would be the first Sports  Day to include Bullseye  members born during the first victory year in 2014. This would be crucial for the Bullseye members because it would mean revisiting a history of Bullseye from the time they were born. If Bullseye wins the 2026 Sports Day, this will be Bullseye's first Sports Day victory since the year 2023. It will also mark ten years since the 2016 Bullseye Sports Day victory on 24th March 2016, and it would have had marked the start of another chapter of Bullseye's victory. 

Prior to the 20th Anniversary Sports Day in 2024, Bullseye managed to win every Sports Day since 2014 with the exclusion of the 2017 and 2018 Sports Days. At the same time, excluding the 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021 Nobel Cups, it managed to win all Nobel Cups held in history, and also every single Founder's Run since 2018, no thanks to Operation Speedrunner, formulated by Lau Wei Yiang and Caleb  Chuang. 

However, Bullseye had  plunged into a record performance freefall following the 20th Anniversary Sports Day, where it bagged third place, and in the 2025 Sports Day, where it came in last place. The dismayal performance of Bullseye raised concerns on the future performance of Bullseye. Touchdown and Slamdunk were able to win the 2024 and 2025 Sports Days, and boasted top quality athletes once possessed by Bullseye.

Since the 2016 Sports Day, Bullseye had not managed to outperform or outdo the result in 2016, 2015 or 2014, which formed the previous victory streak of Bullseye. The second  victory streak from  2019 to 2023, despite being longer than the initial victory streak of  2014 to 2016, showed Bullseye struggling to cope. Each victory, despite occuring at each other, took place in a series of near misses in which Bullseye almost lost to every other house. The 2023 Sports  Day victory, which included the victories of the 2023 Founder's Run and 2023 Nobel Cup, was taken by most observers as possible because of the delay of Sports Day due to the heatwave. Had  the Sports Day occurred on 23rd June 2023 as planned, it could have had hastened the preparations and  caused  Bullseye to perform badly. The heatwave bought time for Bullseye to regroup and the  management to reallocate the Sports Day events  which gave Bullseye a boost. In the  2022  overall standings, Bullseye almost lost but managed  to ward  off a close  fight with Homerun. In 2020, Bullseye managed  to ward off Slamdunk after losing in the Nobel Cup 2019, and  in the 2019 Sports Day, Bullseye almost lost had the Nobel Cup been awarded to Homerun, which turned  out to be false after an error in the badminton scores. 

In the 2017 and 2018  Sports Days, Bullseye almost came close to victory, either through the  648-649 gap  or the initial lead  in the 2018  Sports Day standings. In 2016, 2015 and  2014, Bullseye mostly led the standings in the  competition. 

The exodus of graduating Bullseye members in Year 11  every year resulted in the loss of Bullseye's major  talent.  The process of  retaining talent is  to pass down skills from graduating Bullseye members  to the new, incoming members, either through new students or through incoming students from Year  6.  The  2026 Sports Day is the last out of three Sports Days to coincide with a victory from Bullseye from ten years ago which formed the first victory streak  of Bullseye from 2014 to 2016. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, three graduating batches had resulted in information not being passed down from the older  students to the younger students to retain the Sports Day concept.

Planning for the 2026 Sports Day begun in March 2025, immediately after Bullseye's loss in the 2025 Sports Day, in an attempt to avert a 2026 loss and recover the victory of Bullseye. 

Proposal to win both the Elementary School and  Junior and Senior School Sports Days

On 28th February 2025, following Bullseye's  loss  in the Sports Day, Tan Jun Ee, an alumni of Nobel International School, proposed for Bullseye  to win both the Elementary School and  Junior and Senior School  Sports Days. The victory of Bullseye which included the  multiple streaks and victories of Bullseye fall in the  Junior and Senior School's Sports Days. Conversely, in  the Elementary School, Bullseye had only experienced two Sports Day victories from 2012 to 2025, which were  achieved during the 2012 overall scores and  the 2018 Sports Day. This means that the Elementary School students had not achieved a Bullseye victory streak before. Bullseye's best performance was during the 2012 Elementary School overall tally, in which  Bullseye won  the Games Gala, Sports Gala and Family Marathon Day. For comparison, there are a total of eight Bullseye Sports Day victories, eight Founder's Run victories and six Nobel Cup victories, bringing the tally to a total of 22 victories within the timespan of 2014 to 2025. 

The age groups executing the victory of Bullseye as  well as the policy differences for the Elementary  School and Junior and Senior  School vary, which, in the latter, leads to increased criticism of teachers  than the former. The Elementary School environment is highly controlled as opposed to the Junior and Senior School, and the age groups  (11-17 for the  Junior and Senior School and 6-12 for the Elementary School)_are significant in respect to the situation. The ability of Junior and Senior School students to have greater independence and possess more freedom, in the field of owning handphones or having social media accounts, signifies the difference in which a Bullseye victory streak can thrive. Junior and Senior School students are given a greater leeway to return to Nobel International School on non-schooling days as opposed to Elementary School students. The thinking of Junior and Senior School students long term as opposed to Elementary School students brings impetus to a Bullseye victory for many years. 

The proposal can only be achieved if Nobel International School combines the Elementary School and Junior and Senior  School Sports Days  which can lead to  increased attendance for the Sports Day.  However, it would still be quite challenging for both schools to collaborate together due to the age gap. 

Should Bullseye win both  the  Elementary School and the Junior and Senior School Sports Days in 2026, it would be the biggest project for Bullseye ever undertaken since the launch of Operation Speedrunner, and also the first Bullseye victory in the Junior and Senior School since  the year 2023. Currently, the 2023 Sports Day victory, which culminates the five-year victory streak from 2019 to 2023, constitutes the single largest Bullseye project  to date, preceding the first Bullseye victory streak which was completed in 2016. That victory streak constituted students from Year  11 to Year 3  who were in Nobel in the year  2019, with planning involving an additional five preceding generations of  graduating classes from 2014 to 2018. If  the timeline were to be rewinded back to 2013 or 2014, the planning just to achieve five victory years alone, involved every student in Nobel at the time in 2013 or 2014 from Year 1 to 11 who have since graduated from Nobel. 

Predicted dates for Sports Day

In March 2025, Wei Yiang unveiled a series of plans which include the 2026 Sports Day and  Founder's Run. Under Wei Yiang's predicted plan by the Management, the Founder's Run would be included in the Sports Day scores for the first  time since the 20th Anniversary Sports Day. The Founder's Run was proposed for 6th or  7th February 2026, with the Sports Day occurring after  Hari Raya Aidilfitri, and as such, Sports  Day is predicted  for Friday, 10th April 2026. 

According to Wei Yiang, he had  predicted that the management team, upon realizing the negative impacts of scheduling Sports Day too early in the year, will try to avoid  scheduling the Sports Day too early following feedback from students and parents. Traditionally,  Nobel International School holds Sports Day in the beginning  of the year, during the months of March and April annually. However, following  the Covid 19 pandemic, June was designated as the months for sports-related events. The calendar is considered very packed for Nobel International School due to the scheduling of major examinations in order to cope with the curriculum, hence  Nobel International School normally schedules Sports Day in March or April annually. 

Nobel International School holds the academic year from January to  December annually. The second half of the academic year is normally a busy  time for the school as the  onus of the school is to prepare for the IGCSE examiations scheduled for October and November. The  school also holds assessments and  examinations in February,  May, August and October. The IGCSE Trials  take place in August annually, and  hence, the only  time to hold  a Sports Day and  Founder's Run without major  issues  is either March or April. 

However,  due  to  the timing of Ramadan and Hari Raya Aidilfitri, which, since 2021, had been held in April or  March, it would be very difficult  for Nobel to organize such an arrangement  for the  Sports Day due to the fasting month,  thus  resulting in Sports  Day being  held in June or July, which is after the Mid Year Examinations but before the Assessment 2 and IGCSE Trials. June is considered the appropriate timeframe for a Sports Day because it is held in the middle of the year, and anticipation generally builds up prior to the event.

Date for festive seasons

If a Sports Day is held in April and the Founder's Run in February, the 2026 Sports Day preparations will need to pass through the Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Aidilfitri season. The Chinese New Year is scheduled for Tuesday, 17th  February 2026, the Ramadan is scheduled for 19th February, and the Hari Raya Aidilfitri for 20th March 2026. A hypothetical Founder's Run will need to be held before the Chinese New Year, and the hypothetical Sports Day in late March to the first half of April 2026. Hence, Wei Yiang presented these predicted dates. The last time a Sports Day date lineup was predicted correctly was for the 2020 Sports Day. If the Founder's Run is held in February, before Sports Day, there is a high chance that the Founder's Run can contribute points to Sports Day and the 2024 format can be reused. 

Alternative dates

Alternatively, the Management has a few other choices of dates for the Sports Day and Founder's Run. It is also entirely possible that the Sports Day, should it be held in the middle of 2026, be  scheduled for  26th June, 3rd July or 10th July 2026, and the Founder's Run can possibly be scheduled for 10th April 2026 instead.  

Predicted logistics for Sports Day

Overall

The Management Team is currently deliberating of putting the Sports Day 2026 in April 2026, with a further back-up in June or July 2026, and it is currently understood, according to Wei Yiang, that the Management is preferring the April  2026 format as the preferred choice to hold the Sports Day in 2026 in order for June and July to be scheduled for other events. 

Venue

The Management Team is considering to either rent the Bukit Jalil National Stadium for the 2026 Sports Day or to revert the venue back to the Panasonic Stadium. However, the choice of the venue, as predicted by Wei Yiang, will be based on whether to combine the Elementary School and Junior and Senior School's Sports Days. According to Wei Yiang's predictions, Ms Ingel is more or less in favor of combining the Sports Day in order to reduce costs, but however, the Management will only make the final decision once the booking of the venue is confirmed. 

The Sports Day was eventually cancelled in favor of the 2026 Beauty is the Beast Concert, rendering such a venue unsuitable.

Founder's  Run Logistics

Following the 2025 Founder's Run, the Management is predicted to be considering to revert the Founder's Run to a Friday format, taking into account the low turnout for Founder's Run 2025. The Founder's Run 2025 had  seen only 200 of all the 600 students turn up for the Founder's Runn o n12th April. This caused concern of the declining popularity of the run. Wei Yiang predicts that the management would not want to remove the Founder's Run as it is considered a Character Transformation exercise to give back to the community as well as a school tradition. Instead, the management will revert the Founder's Run to a Friday format or a weekday format. Should the Management decide to hold Founder's Run, it will be on Friday, 6th February 2026 in order to accommodate the convenient schedule as it is between Chinese New Year and Thaipusam.

The Management is also, according to Wei Yiang, considering moving the Founder's Run to either Bukit Kiara or the Perdana Botanical Gardens in Kuala Lumpur to bring a new twist to the Founder's Run. this was proven true in 2026 when the Founder's Run was relocated to Putrajaya for the 11th edition of the run. 

Wei Yiang's 2026 Sports Day Banner

In October 2025, Wei Yiang consulted with Aaron Ng, Ashwin Jeyabalan, 

Proposal on the inclusion of 6-7 in the Sports Day. 

Announcement of the cancellation of Sports Day 2026

On 11th November 2025, during the final school assembly for 2025, Auntie Clarine addressed the school with the announcement of a proposed school concert for the year 2026. The concert was tentatively named as the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Concert, based on a book by Roald Dahl and a movie of the same name released in 2005. Subsequently on 17th December 2025, the theme was scrapped and replaced by the theme of Broadway Musical, according to Jayden Cheong. On 14th May 2026, the concert was named as the Beauty is the Beast Concert, reusing a concert of the same name from 2018.

When the school calendar was released in December 2025, the concert was scheduled for 25th July 2026. Teachers subsequently informed students that the concert was replacing the Sports Day, which would instead be cancelled. Students were reportedly unhappy with this change and reportedly petitioned for the reinstatement of sports events in 2026. However, they were told that sports events would still take place in 2026 and be as competitive as the Sports Day. Had there been no concert in 2026, Sports Day would have had taken place in July 2026. The calendar consisted of the 2026 Telematch Competition and the 2026 Founder's Run.

School District Calendar Template [Link to the 2026 School Calendar]

The 2026 school calendar, showing the planned calendar agenda of Founder's Run and Telematch, without the inclusion of Sports Day. The calendar also shows the 2026 School Concert.

Concert poster for the 2025 Beauty is the Beast Concert. 

2026 House Captain Election

On 30th January 2026, students were instructed to gather with their sports houses to elect the next house captains for 2026. On the same day, a Telematch briefing was taking place. Students had to gather in their houses following the briefing by Mr Lew Wei Him on the telematch competition.

Ong Zi Xin and Joel Tan were elected as house captains for Bullseye. They had to face Teh Szi Wei and Ivan Lai, the house captains of Touchdown; Peter Tan and Caleigh Chan Li Ern (Homerun captains) and Lim Xin Jie and Gabriel Soo (Slamdunk captains). The list was announced by Azalea Wong on 14th January. The house captains' list was instantly compared to the Bullseye White Paper, which correctly predicted Teh Szi Wei as Touchdown's house captain. The Bullseye White Paper's list was published in March 2025, and predicted Ong Zi Xin as a house captain candidate for Bullseye. 

2026 House Captains List

Bullseye	Ong Zi Xin Joel Tan
Touchdown	Teh Szi Wei Ivan Lai Koon Heng
Homerun	Peter Tan Caleigh Chan Li Ern
Slamdunk	Lim Xin Jie Gabriel Soo Bo Xuen

Withdrawn/unsuccessful candidates

Bullseye: Wong Pey Yi, Tan Jun Cheng, Ssarvesh, Jan, 

Touchdown: Cadence Yoo, Elijah Martin Cheng, 

Homerun: Alyssa Chang Ee Yen, 

Slamdunk: Yee Xing Teng, Jayden Lai, Josiah Tsen

2026 Telematch Competition 

2026 Telematch Competition Announcement

The 2026 Telematch Announcements took place on Friday, 30th January 2026, during the Junior and Senior School's morning assembly. The announcements begun with a briefing by Mr Lew Wei Him, the Head of CCA, on the telematch events, followed by the election of the 2026 House Captain and the practicing of the house cheer. 

According to Mr Lew, the telematch games would be held on 13th February in the school compound, while a cheer competition would be held on 6th February 2026 during the morning assembly. Each student would be briefed on the telematch games closer to the event day. Each student was required to participate in both the events. Students were handed their sports attire during the briefing, which they had purchased online via the school website.

Each house was given a chance to do an election of their captain and to come up with a cheer. Year 11 committee members led the discussion with their house members. 

Mr Lew subsequently revealed that the Telematch Games would be known as the Ignite 2026 Telematch Games, which were printed on the sports attire. He subsequently announced that on the cheer competition day, students were to gather in their sports houses and are allowed to bring props to cheer.

2026 Cheer Competition

The 2026 Cheer Competition took place on Friday, 6th February 2026, which coincides with the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, held in Milan and Cortina d' Ampezzo, Italy. Each house had to demonstrate their cheer during the morning assembly. 

2026 Telematch Games

The Ignite 2026 Telematch Games took place on Friday, 13th February 2026, which was the last day of school before the Chinese New Year Holidays. The management decided to hold the Ignite 2026 Telematch Games before the Chinese New Year holidays because they intend to steer clear of the Assessment 1 in the end of February and the Ramadan fasting month which takes place during the Chinese New Year season. 

The last time a telematch competition was the feature and the centremark of a sports tally was in the year 2010, where only the telematch competition was a main contributor to the sports house tally, barring the existence of Sports Day. Ignite 2026 Telematch Games formed the main backdrop of the 2026 Sports Day Replacement Events in pomp and circumstance by replacing the main Sports Day event. 

Each house was divided into a total of six teams per year level and coded according to the first letter of the house (B for Bullseye, T for Touchdown, H for Homerun and S for Slamdunk). Each gender had one team for Year 7, Year 8/9 and Year 10/11 respectively. There were a total of six games, namely puzzle solving, bottle filling, a game of tag, egg balancing, powder games and an obstacle course. Each game station was stationed by teachers. 

The Ignite 2026 Telematch Games begun with the assembly of students into the four houses at the school's main auditorium.

Criticism of the prize of the telematch winners

2026 Founder's Run

2026 Founder's Run Announcements by Mr Lew Wei Him

On 6th April 2026, Nobel International School launched the Founder's Run 2026 during the 2026 Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations organized by the school during the morning assembly. The announcements for Founder's Run took place just after the conclusion of the 2026 Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations. 

The launch of the 2026 Founder's Run was done by Auntie Clarine, Ms Ingel, Ms Colleen and the management team alongside Mr Lew. A video montage was played showing the history of the Founder's Run, from the first edition on 26th February 2016 to the 10th edition on 12th April 2025. 

As Mr Lew launched the run, he had made a few announcements regarding the registration and the date of the Founder's Run. Subsequently, Auntie Clarine had also announced the expansion of the Founder's Run to include more NGOs, the participation of various Fungates kindergarten staff in the run, and the invitation of church groups from two churches: Pantai Baptist Church and InTouch Church Subang, for the Founder's Run. The run also aims to invite various corporations, firms and a limited number of outsiders to join the run. Mr Lew said that parents are encouraged to register for the run and they aim to hit about 2,000 runners on the same day in order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the run.

Mr Lew subsequently announced that the Founder's Run will be the last major sports event of the year in which the Champion House of the year 2026 will be announced. He also announced that house points will be awarded for registration of students for the Founder's Run along with the Top 10 winners of the Year 7, Year 8/9 and Year 10/11 categories.

2026 Founder's Run Registration

The registration of the 2026 Founder's Run opened on Monday, 13th April 2026, and students were given until Friday, 17th April 2026, to register for the run. Each student who had registered contributed two points to their sports house. 

A total of 1,123 people registered for the Founder's Run, comprising about 835 students, 100 teachers, 68 parents, 53 church group members, 60 Fungates Superflow Foundation staff and 7 alumni members. 

Slamdunk managed to bag 125 members for the run, Homerun 107 participants, Touchdown 73 and Bullseye 54. The low number of Bullseye participants was criticized by pundits who said that Bullseye can win if everyone managed to join. Bullseye's teachers defended the low registration numbers for Bullseye as a demonstration of the lack of sporting talent for Bullseye. Wei Yiang and his team hit back on the reasons, citing that anything can happen in sports and that each registration is an important asset for Bullseye. 

Change of 2026 Founder's Run Date and Venue

On 6th April 2026, during the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations, it was announced by Mr Lew Wei Him that the date of the Founder's Run would be moved from the original date of 25th April, to a newly-appointed date, 9th May 2026. This was to avoid Founder's Run clashing with the 2026 Mid Year Examination on the original date. Subsequently, the Mid Year Examination would be brought forward so that the Founder's Run would be held after the conclusion of the examinations. This was based on parents' feedback as well as teachers' feedback on the date of the run, which would need to be moved after concerns were raised of Founder's Run coinciding with the 2026 Mid Year Examination and the May/June 2026 series of the IGCSE Examination. 

In the 2024 and 2025 Founder's Runs which took place on 27th April 2024 and 12th April 2025, the amount of runners coming for the Founder's Run were progressively decreasing year upon year due to the siting of the date of the Founder's Run close to the date of the Mid Year Examination. In 2024, the Mid Year Examiation was held from 29th April to 17th May, and in 2025, from 21st April to 9th May. The importance of the examination season resulted in many people skipping the run. Fears had grown of low turnout for the run, which necessitated a postponement. Ms Ingel and Ms Colleen subsequently announced the new examination dates alongside Ms Mera and Ms Praveen during the Hari Raya celebration when Mr Lew announced the new dates of the Founder's Run. 

On 24th April 2026, Mr Lew Wei Him announced that the Founder's Run will be relocated to a new venue, the Putrajaya Wetlands Park at Putrajaya's Precinct 13. This was because the original venue of Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam was being booked for another event on 9th May as a result of the postponement of the Founder's Run. Hence, this resulted in a relocation of the run to Putrajaya. 

The Putrajaya Wetlands Park is the largest man made wetland water feature in Southeast Asia. The purpose of the wetland park was to naturally filter out pollutants from two major rivers which empty into Putrajaya Lake, a man made lake which forms the centrepiece of the city of Putrajaya. 

The consequent relocation of the run resulted in the first Founder's Run since 2020 to take place outside of Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam. The 2020 Founder's Run, which was the last Founder's Run to take place outside of Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam, was held at the Bukit Jalil Recreational Park in Bukit Jalil on 14th February 2020.

Chan Lik Hoong International Airport

Padang Astaka, the field that is to be used by Nobel International School for the Founder's Run, appears to look like an airport when configured with the main road. It was suggested to be named as the Chan Lik Hoong International Airport to give an amusing feel to the run.

Provisional logo for the Chan Lik Hoong International Airport, based on the school's logo, an airplane, an arrow representing Bullseye, and an airport runway.

Nobel International School announced the Padang Astaka as the main gathering and event area of the Founder's Run. The field was a 4-acre large field located at the northeast corner of the Putrajaya Wetlands Park. According to Mr Lew, the Padang Astaka was needed because it serves as a viable resting point as well as a suitable place to start and finish the run. It was also big enough for people to spread out and warm up, and also large enough to stage logistics for any emergencies and race vehicles during the run. 

Because the Padang Astaka was a large field located beside a main road truncuating through the park, it was comparable to an airport with an aerodrome, airside area, control tower, and airport runway. The Padang Astaka was accompanied by a mini amphitheatre, the Bangunan Astaka, as well as four small pergolas for people to rest at. The field formed the airside tarmac and aerodrome proper, while the amphitheatre served as the main terminal building. Two of the pergolas which sit near the road formed the radar station and air traffic control tower. 

Wei Yiang had described the outlook of the site to Mr Thomas and compared the site to a similar setup outside his house in Puchong, where a large asphalt space measuring one fifth of an acre was needed to pick up and drop off students at the school near his house, and that a small grassy mount groove, the Bukit Han Shi Hiok, formed a similar terminal outlook just like an international airport. This became evident when he does his marathon practices as it is akin to taking off and landing while running on the straight stretch, be it at Puchong or at the Putrajaya Wetlands Park, simulating real airport takeoff and landing conditions to make the marathon practices very amusing and less boring. In response, Mr Thomas decreed that the field, roadway and buildings at the Putrajaya Wetlands Park that surround Padang Astaka be referred to as the Chan Lik Hoong International Airport.

Mr Thomas reasoned that the purpose of naming the makeshift 'airport' as the Chan Lik Hoong International Airport was to honor Mr Chan Lik Hoong, the school's Management Advisor, who was a former principal of the Junior and Senior School before being promoted to Management Advisor of Nobel International School in 2012. Mr Chan had taught in various government schools since the 1970s before joining Nobel. Mr Thomas further opined that Mr Chan Lik Hoong was a sports sprinter and a superstar athlete. He had held a lot of high regard and also at times, hatred regard against Mr Chan, in which he held Mr Chan responsible for Bullseye's losses. As Mr Chan was Mr Thomas' best friend as colleagues, Mr Thomas had requested that Mr Chan lend his name to an international airport so that he can be honored and remembered. 

In response, Lau Wei Yiang asked why the airport wasn't named as the Clarine Chun International Airport, given that the Founder's Run is named after Ms Clarine Chun, which many refer to as Auntie Clarine, the founder of Nobel International School in which the name of the run is inspired from. Wei Yiang opined that if an airport was named after Auntie Clarine, it would honor Auntie Clarine's contributions to the founding of Nobel International School. However, Mr Thomas said that everyone had known Auntie Clarine for a long time, but that Mr Chan himself should have the spotlight and that Chan Lik Hoong was a much more rememberable name compared to Auntie Clarine for the purposes of the international airport. He said that Auntie Clarine wasn't in the educational industry for a longer time as opposed to Mr Chan, who had dedicated half a century of his life towards teaching. Mr Thomas labeled Mr Chan as an all rounder and that at the same time, Chan Lik Hoong International Airport was more suitable because it was easier to pronounce and it was more motivating for Bullseye to win.

The name of the airport was designated as the Chan Lik Hoong International Airport, but however, an airport code needed to be found. Wei Yiang and Mr Thomas soon discussed the airport codes. Mr Thomas also added that an airport code was to be made because the airport needed to have branding and should be internationalized, just like how the Kuala Lumpur International Airport is codenamed KUL on ICAO codes. This would "further make Chan well known and famous," as quoted by Mr Thomas.

The first code suggested was CHN because it closely mimicked Mr Chan's surname. However, the airport code is reserved for Jeonju Airport in South Korea, and thus, another initial had to be taken. Both suggested CLH, the initials for Chan Lik Hoong, but however, this code belongs to Coolah Airport in Australia. Other codes that were rejected include CHA (used for the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport in the US), CHW (Jiuquan Airport, China), CHO (Charlottesville-Albermarie Airport, USA), LHC (Caballocha Airport, Peru), and many others. 

LKH, CXH and CLK were not taken by any other airports, with the CXH code giving it an international feel. However, it was deemed confusing for people, so the name CLK was taken. Subsequently, logos were created for the Chan Lik Hoong International Airport and approved by Mr Thomas. 

Mr Thomas jokingly added that the Chan Lik Hoong International Airport would be able to handle 500 million passengers a year to become the world's busiest international airport after the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport (which handled 106 million passengers a year). This meant over 57,000 passengers per hour and 16 passengers a second, no thanks to repeated running of 42.195km while training and running the actual race (57,000 is the same amount as the number of finishers of the 2026 London Marathon, the biggest marathon ever). The sheer number of alumni can become the staff of the international airport. At the same time, hospitality would be very great to showcase the pride and perfectionism of the airport.  

The Chan Lik Hoong International Airport would also become the world's busiest and coolest international airport, which would make Changi Airport in Singapore a boredom place by comparison. This airport would allow people to do even more cooler things than the ones at Changi. It will have a jogging track and it will be built with features suggested by anyone who thinks outside the box of a normal airport, making the airport look more than a destination, a home or a city combined. It would receive so many accolades for the World's Best Airport, Most Efficient Airport, and almost every single accolade by the Airports Council International. 

Global Passenger Traffic Comparison

Rank [1, 2]	Airport	2025 Passenger Volume	Compared to a 500M Airport
—	Chan Lik Hoong International Airport (CLK)	500.0 Million	100% (Baseline)
1	Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)	106.3 Million	21.3% of its volume
2	Dubai International Airport (DXB)	95.2 Million	19.0% of its volume
3	Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)	91.7 Million	18.3% of its volume
4	Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)	85.7 Million	17.1% of its volume
5	Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)	85.0 Million	17.0% of its volume
6	Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)	84.8 Million	17.0% of its volume
7	London Heathrow Airport (LHR)	84.5 Million	16.9% of its volume
8	Istanbul Airport (IST)	84.4 Million	16.9% of its volume
9	Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN)	83.6 Million	16.7% of its volume
10	Denver International Airport (DEN)	82.4 Million	16.5% of its volume

Day of the Founder's Run

Founder's Run 2026, which took place on 9th May 2026, begun with the arrival of the parents, students, teachers and visitors to the Putrajaya Wetlands Park at Putrajaya. Prior to the run, students, parents and staff were informed of the available parking areas within the wetlands park. Entry to the park was free. There were two parking bays; one near the entrance and another near the Padang Astaka. The distance of the Padang Astaka from the entrance is about a kilometer. 

Initially, parents were informed that they could park at the parking areas near the field. However, a change in plans was informed by the school that only teachers and staff would be allowed to park at the parking lot adjacent to the field. Therefore, parents were only allowed to park at the parking lot near the entrance. To resolve concerns over the inconvenient walking distance, Nobel International School provided a shuttle bus service to ferry runners and visitors from the entrance to the Astaka Field. 

Parents and students along with other individuals who had registered for the run were directed to the registration area, where a series of tents were installed below the Astaka Field's amphitheatre. Students were directed to the amphitheatre post-registration.

The run begun with a birthday song for Auntie Clarine, followed by a zumba session. This was then followed by the flagging off of the Year 1 and 2 students who were participating in the 400m race. The Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 were then flagged off in waves to run a 2km race.

This was then followed by the flagging off of the Year 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 students in waves to run the 5km run. Students who finished the run were directed back to the amphitheatre for the prize-giving ceremony. Students who had won the Top 10 in the races were directed to register their names at the Statistics station, which was manned by Mr Kevin Wai and Ms Hii. 

A lot of Bullseye members were unable to finish the top 10, and Slamdunk topped the list of winners. Subsequently, Slamdunk was announced as the winner of the Founder's Run, with Touchdown, Homerun and Bullseye following in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. This was Bullseye's worst Founder's Run performance ever.

The victory of Slamdunk ended the last vestiges of Bullseye legacies; the Founder's Run victory streak of Bullseye was brought to a close, bringing an end to the last legacy from the 2010s and the longest victory streak ever in Nobel International School history. Slamdunk subsequently became the second house after Bullseye to win all sports events in a single calendar year; Bullseye won the Sports Day and Nobel Cup in 2014 and 2015, as well as the overall score, Sports Day, Nobel Cup and Founder's Run in 2022 and 2023. 2026 became the fifth year in which a sports house won all sports tournaments contested in a single academic calendar year, with Slamdunk winning the Telematch and the Founder's Run. The victory of Slamdunk also resulted in Slamdunk successfully winning back to back victories and defending its title from the previous Sports Day in 2025, after Bullseye did it in 2014/2015 and 2019/2020, and Touchdown in 2017/2018. 

The 2026 Sports Day Replacement Events final tally marks the first time since 2015/2016 in which two back to back years had the same final result of the sports tally; in 2015/2016, the line up was Bullseye, Touchdown, Homerun and Slamdunk; for 2025/2026, it was Slamdunk, Touchdown, Homerun, Bullseye.

Lim Xin Jie (left) and Gabriel Soo (right), house captains of Slamdunk, lift the Founder's Run trophy upon the announcement of Slamdunk as the 2026 Overall House Champion.

Published on 15th July 2025

Edited on 18th May 2026

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