[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; the Beauty is the Beast Concert which was held on 25th July 2026. 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. 

The 2026 sports events were dominated by controversy amid the school's decision to replace Sports Day with a few low key events and the school's 2026 Concert, as well as other major flaws raised during the organization of these events. The 2026 performance of Bullseye was the first time Bullseye failed to advance beyond the third place mark in the official tally throughout the organization of the 2026 Telematch and 2026 Founder's Run at any point of the competition from January to May 2026.

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 was to have had been 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. 

Mr Thomas claimed that should this feat happen, Wei Yiang will be credited for its success. He said that to motivate the students, Mr Chan should dress up as Captain Hook and fire a firecracker or cannon during the Sports Day, if it involves both elementary and Junior and Senior School students. Mr Tan Seng Kee can join Mr Chan and dress up like Kung Fu Panda and that Wei Yiang, according to Mr Thomas, can dress up like a clown.

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. These plans were documented in the Bullseye White Paper, which aims to achieve a Bullseye victory. 

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.

In 2026, the Sports Day was not held in favor of the Beauty is the Beast Concert; Wei Yiang added that had Sports Day taken place in 2026, it would have had been held on 3rd July. 

The purpose of the predictions for the sports events in Nobel was to increase the chances of Bullseye winning in the Sports Day or Founder's Run.

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, Tang Joe Yue and Ian Loi, to decide the design for the 2026 Bullseye banner which he was about to draw, as the banner was to be displayed on the Sports Day. 

Ashwin Jeyabalan, who was the 2019 assistant captain for Bullseye, proposed a wild boar as the official mascot of Bullseye. Aaron and Ian proposed drawing a boat with pictures of themselves riding it, alongside the words "Just married". Wei Yiang also drew a row of crows and the Chee Fooi Foon lettering with bulls.

Wei Yiang adopted all designs alongside Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Aidilfitri decorations due to the coincidation of Ramadan, Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Chinese New Year alongside each other in the February-March season, alongside the Founder's Run in April and May 2026. Mr Thomas had also requested a drawing of Mr Chan Lik Hoong, the school's Management Advisor, on the banner, which Wei Yiang had implemented as well. According to Wei Yiang, this was to ensure that everyone's ideas were included in the official design of the banner and that everyone had a fair deal. He subsequently billed it as a "win-win situation" for all parties, as each idea and suggestion was proposed.

In December 2025, the final addition was a picture of the Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve alongside cherry blossom trees and a muddy muck, to symbolize the landscape and tin mining history of Puchong, alongside a campaign to halt development at the forest reserve. Since November 2025, residents of Puchong had been campaigning for the development by Perano Properties and Jakel Group, to be stalled. The development was to comprise high rise apartments located on a stretch of land spanning 169 acres from Bandar Puteri to Bandar Puchong Jaya, two townships in the city of Puchong.

Concerns rose over the inclusion of Mr Chan Lik Hoong on the banner's design. Many had felt the awkwardness of the banner designs which included Mr Chan. Others raised concern over potential insult to Mr Chan. According to Mr Thomas, who had lobbied heavily for the design, the purpose of including Mr Chan on the banner was to encourage the Bullseye members to do well, and that Bullseye's victory can be attributed to Mr Chan should his portrait be displayed on the banner.

Mr Thomas had been wishing for as many events as possible to involve Mr Chan Lik Hoong, and he had even planned for Mr Chan to play a prominent role in the sports events. Since 2024, Mr Chan Lik Hoong had earned brickbats by Mr Thomas, and was called out by Mr Thomas himself for hating Bullseye and wanting Bullseye to lose. Mr Chan had been demanded to be diligent to resign from his post by Mr Thomas and was blamed for all of Bullseye's losses since 2024 by Mr Thomas, following the 20th Anniversary Sports Day. 

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

Wei Yiang further suggested Bullseye win the years 2026 and 2027, to coincide with the 6-7 hand gesture trend that is made among the current crop of teenagers, particularly Generation Alpha. This is because the last numbers of 2026 and 2027 form the 6-7 meme. The hand gesture involves moving one's hands up and down vertically, with palms facing upward and pointed to the front. According to Wei Yiang, this will kickstart another set of Bullseye victories, which can be extended further, starting with 2026 and then 2027. According to the Bullseye White Paper, the plans involved an extension of this 2026 and 2027 victory years to 2032.

Since 2025, this hand gesture had grown popular around the world. People would react with the words "6-7" when seeing the numbers 6, 7, 67 or in rare cases, 76, on any given piece of document or article, both digital and in writing, or verbally. The reactions have been known to cause annoyance to teachers and grown ups globally.

6-7, also pronounced as Six Seven, is a phrase coming from the song "Doot Doot", which was published in February 2025. In the middle of 2025, a young boy was seen making the hand gesture and shouting 6-7 at a high school basketball game in America. The funny gesture and acoustic slang has made it hillarious for global communities to jump on, and use this trend. 

Mr Thomas' proposals for 2026 that were made between March and November 2025

Since getting involved with Bullseye in 2023 following his retirement from Nobel in 2021 via Lau Wei Yiang, Mr Thomas has, and subsequently proposed, numerous ideas and suggestions for the Sports Day in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Mr Thomas also played a part in coming up with the ideas and suggestions for Wei Yiang to use in the Sports Day, although some are seen as jokes. Mr Thomas is a frequent, vocal critic of the management of the school following his retirement, and has called into question some of the management's actions. Mr Thomas wanted to suggest ideas to Wei Yiang in order to jump on the bandwagon to advance the cause of Bullseye's victories. The main target of Mr Thomas' ire for Bullseye was Mr Chan Lik Hoong, the management advisor of Nobel International School, and also Mr Thomas' best friend when Mr Thomas himself was still working for the school.

According to Mr Thomas, Mr Chan Lik Hoong was his target for both positive and negative reasons. Mr Thomas had frequently viewed Mr Chan as a sports athlete, even though Mr Chan is over 70 years old at this time of writing, closing in on his 80s. Mr Thomas had spoke highly of the skills of Mr Chan, but also criticized Mr Chan for certain shortcomings. The most surreal shortcoming told off of the management by Mr Thomas was financial circumstances. Mr Thomas had spoken negatively of the management team of the school, accusing them of corruption. The main targets of corruption were Mr Chan Lik Hoong himself, as well as Ms Chia Bee Yong, the then principal of the school before 2024. This point was repeated by many students between 2015 and 2023, of the corruption allegations of the management. However, the management has denied these allegations. 

Mr Thomas also alleged that Mr Chan Lik Hoong was the sole mastermind controlling every school event and every agenda, from the examination setup to the school rules, academic performance, Study Camps, and the like. Mr Thomas used this basis to allege Mr Chan was the number one hater of Bullseye. He described a conversation he had with Mr Chan on 21st February 2020 where Mr Thomas was informed by Mr Chan Lik Hoong that Mr Chan himself did not want Bullseye to win and that Mr Chan had gotten fed up of Bullseye's constant victories. Mr Thomas had previously called for the resignation of Ms Chia Bee Yong, Mr Chan Lik Hoong and all members of the management team between 2022 and 2023. Mr Thomas based his resignation in 2021 over his distaste of Mr Chan. 

The advice given by teachers in Nobel to Wei Yiang to move on was also criticized by Mr Thomas, who claimed the management used such reasons as justification to incite hatred to Bullseye and to him. Mr Thomas had supported Wei Yiang's move to continue leading Bullseye in order to shore up the house and incite more competition into the events. He aimed for Bullseye to win as much as possible in order to glorify Bullseye in the global stage. Mr Thomas is regularly updated on Nobel's activities by Wei Yiang, and also the progress of Bullseye. He had also contributed ideas to Bullseye, such as the victory parade in front of SJKC Shin Cheng Harcroft following Bullseye's victory in 2023, and had supported as many briefings presented to him. Mr Thomas holds a personal view that the school should entertain its alumni who regularly come back to visit the school, and that alumni should continue to take part in the school activities. He feels that the school should demonstrate hospitality to its former students.

Since the 20th Anniversary Sports Day on 2nd July 2024, Mr Thomas had outpoured his anger on Mr Chan Lik Hoong, calling for his resignation and scrapegoating him for the entire loss of Bullseye in the 20th Anniversary Sports Day. He had called for Mr Chan Lik Hoong to play and run as many sports as possible in the Sports Day, Nobel Cup and Founder's Run, and claimed this was intended as a "punishment" to Mr Chan Lik Hoong for failing to ensure Bullseye's victory in the 20th Anniversary Sports Day. Mr Thomas, prior to that, had requested Mr Chan to run the 100m athletics sprint on the 20th Anniversary Sports Day, and participate in the teachers' race. The refusal of Mr Chan to do those things had angered Mr Thomas and resulted in Mr Thomas pressing Mr Chan to admit responsibility and do certain acts such as the sports participation, to win the Sports Day. Mr Thomas had, in 2024, called for the renaming of Bullseye to Crowseye, changing of the sports attire to black (which was accepted in 2025 and 2026), putting a crow on the Sports Day and also all other sorts of things, such as putting cages of crows to release to make Bullseye win during the athletics events. He had called for invitation of Red Indians from America to run the Founder's Run in 2025 and also for Mr Chan to register for a full marathon prior to that. 

In 2025, Mr Thomas had criticized Mr Chan Lik Hoong on the eve of the Sports Day for requesting Wei Yiang not to bring any banners via Ms Sha, due to him being influential in booking the Bukit Jalil National Stadium for the Unleash Sports Day 2025. Mr Thomas also criticized Mr Chan for deciding to cancel points allocation for the 2025 Founder's Run on 12th April 2025 at Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam, claiming he had "shut off the power" by choosing not to award points for Founder's Run 2025, which would have had caused Bullseye to win, and called for action to be taken against Mr Chan for Bullseye's continued failure in 2025. 

Opinions and viewpoints of Mr Thomas against Mr Chan ahead of the 2026 sports events

Mr Thomas had sarcastically called for the removal of all students and teachers surnamed 'Chan' from the school, in order to rid the school of the 'Chan epidemic', claiming that they had threatened Bullseye. He even requested that Caleigh Chan Li Ern and Alyssa Chang Ee Yen be reassigned to Bullseye from Homerun. Mr Thomas called for Mr Chan Lik Hoong to be made the star of the Sports Day, and suggested that Wei Yiang take over his position should Mr Chan refuse to do so. Mr Thomas claimed that this was appropriate as Mr Chan was a superstar athlete. He even claimed that Mr Chan Lik Hoong can net over 100 gold medals in the MSSD competitions as a single athlete. If that happened, Mr Chan would break all MSSD and national records, as well as become the school's top athlete. For comparison, Nobel's 2025 MSSD tally had 100 medals, all won by 23 student athletes.  

Mr Thomas proposed that the launch of the 2026 Sports Day involve Mr Lew Wei Him, Mr Chan Lik Hoong or the management team pressing a button and acting like Team Rocket's antics in Pokemon. He said only Bullseye members should be involved because he intended for the 2026 Sports Day to be made like a movie, scripted on the phrase "Stop the Steal, Save Bullseye". 

Mr Thomas claimed that Mr Chan Lik Hoong will make the Sports Day an internal event, halting alumni from attending it so that he can cause other houses other than Bullseye to win. He claimed that these were dirty tricks by Mr Chan.

Proposal of Nobel Cup plans by Mr Thomas

The Nobel Cup, last played in 2023, involved many ball games and team sports, namely football, basketball, badminton, table tennis, chess and captain ball. Mr Thomas had earmarked plans for this with Wei Yiang despite the management refusing to hold Nobel Cup since then.

Mr Thomas, consistent with his views from August 2024, suggested that Mr Chan Lik Hoong play all the six Nobel Cup sports, which was why he subsequently named the theme of the Sports Day initially as 'Ironman' in order to compare it to the Ironman Triathlon, the world's toughest triathlon.

Mr Thomas suggested that Mr Chan join the students during break time, lunch time and after school, especially those who played basketball and futsal at the basketball and futsal courts at the school grounds. Wei Yiang suggested that Ssarvesh, a football player from Bullseye, teach Mr Chan football; Han Yi and Chi How can teach basketball to Mr Chan; and Zi Xin can teach badminton. Pey Yi can teach Mr Chan the girls' basketball match. However, Mr Thomas said that rather than troubling the students, Mr Chan himself can pick up a co-curricular activity (CCA) after school hours, and that he should walk up to Mr Lew Wei Him's office to register for a CCA. He claimed Mr Chan came up with the list of CCAs and blatantly opted out, saying that Mr Chan had controlled Mr Lew on what CCAs to put in Nobel. 

Mr Thomas criticized Mr Chan Lik Hoong for joining the Christian Fellowship CCA when another sports CCA like chess was held on the same day, and said that Mr Chan should invest his time in training for the sports contested in Nobel Cup. He claimed that due to Mr Chan's inaction on doing so, it had caused the loss of Bullseye within a period of 24 months, and that the Christian Fellowship CCA got the CCA of the Year award because of Mr Chan attending the praise and worship services. Mr Thomas claimed that Mr Chan will trick his doctor into producing a letter stating that he be excused from the events in order to avoid them. He questioned Mr Chan's integrity in producing such letters. He claimed that if Mr Chan did not do those events, Bullseye will lose. According to Mr Thomas, Mr Chan played with a ball confiscated from a student by him who was caught playing basketball in unauthorized spaces. He suggested that Ms Praveen Shadaan lead the captain ball games. Mr Thomas called for volleyball to be unbanned from the school and then criticized Mr Chan for instituting the ban. He claimed that Mr Chan banned volleyball in order to ensure that the school facilities are not destroyed by dangerous volleyball games. Mr Thomas opined that Mr Chan should reinforce school facilities to become volleyball proof using his pocket money rather than spending his salary on expensive meals. 

Mr Thomas called for Mr Chan to become a football striker and that Mr Tan Seng Kee can join Mr Chan in the football games. He claimed that Mr Chan must pass a mental examination before he can play the games. He said Mr Chan must join at least one event in Nobel Cup for him to be recognized.

Proposal of Founder's Run plans by Mr Thomas

On 23rd September 2025, Mr Thomas proposed a change of venue for the 2026 Founder's Run. According to Mr Thomas, the Founder's Run should be held at a golf course located within driving distance of Nobel International School. Three venues were proposed by Mr Thomas for the 2026 Founder's Run, namely the Tropicana Golf and Country Resort at Tropicana Metropark in Kota Damansara, the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club in Glenmarie, Shah Alam, and the Subang National Golf Course in Subang. Mr Thomas also proposed the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, the site of the 2013 National Day Run.

Mr Thomas opined that the reason golf clubs and such resorts were chosen was because Mr Chan Lik Hoong, according to Mr Thomas in October 2024, regularly frequents lavish hotels and resorts for his meals. He hoped that the aim of the Founder's Run was to have students run around and experience the luxury of the resort and the luxurious life of Mr Chan. The flag off of the run can be held in an air conditioned convention hall or function hall located inside the resort. After investigating all facilities, Tropicana Golf and Country Resort was selected as Mr Thomas' preferred candidate venue for the run, not only because it had a jogging track weaving the golf course, but also because Mr Thomas had said that Mr Chan Lik Hoong holds a membership of the golf club. His monthly salary of RM 40,000 enables him to enjoy such luxuries, as mentioned by Mr Thomas. Mr Thomas subsequently mentioned that Mr Chan Lik Hoong had abour RM 1 million in assets. He also claimed Megan Lee, the 2017 golf athlete in the MSSD events, had introduced all the golf courses, including Tropicana, to Mr Chan Lik Hoong and it had caused Mr Chan to become engrossed in golf courses.

Currently, the only major run in Malaysia to have had finished in an air conditioned convention hall is the Langkawi International Half Marathon, which ends in the Mahsuri International Convention Center. He proposed that the management prepare feasts and entertainment for the students at the golf course. Alternative plans involved closing highways for the Founder's Run, to allow students to run on closed highways, but this was quickly scrapped due to inconvenience and logistics. 

Mr Thomas proposed that Mr Chan Lik Hoong and Auntie Clarine carry a red flag and lead the Bullseye members during the Founder's Run. He subsequently called for the Bullseye members to turn the Founder's Run into a protest march of support for Bullseye. He said that Auntie Clarine should run the race in order to lose fat and to realize the true meaning of the Founder's Run. Alternatively, Wei Yiang suggested that Mr Chan accompany the other teachers who followed the students from the back of the corral in 2025. Mr Thomas said that Mr Chan was just giving too many excuses to run and he claimed Mr Chan can be the champion of the Founder's Run. 

When Wei Yiang proposed reinstating the 10km category for the Founder's Run, which was last ran in 2019, Mr Thomas proposed that Mr Chan run that distance. However, Wei Yiang cautioned that Mr Chan should not do it if his health does not permit it. Wei Yiang further proposed an Ekiden category covering 42km, in which Mr Thomas said that Mr Chan, Ms Praveen, Ms Colleen, Ms Mera, Mr Lew, Mr Loh, Mr Meshach, Ms Ingel, Mr Ryan Chan and Ms Yvonne, the receptionist, should perform the Ekiden, with each individual covering 4km each, and he subsequently proposed Wei Yiang finish off with 2.195km to make the 42km full marathon. 

Other affairs discussed were the Founder's Run t-shirt. Wei Yiang proposed a red design for the t-shirt, noting that other colors (blue for 2016, 2020 and 2021, green for 2018 and 2026, orange for 2017, grey for 2024, black for 2019, 2022 and 2023 and biege for 2025) had been used for other years. This was accepted by Mr Thomas, who added it will help Bullseye win. 

Since 2024, both Wei Yiang and Mr Thomas called for the fundraising of about RM 20,000 in order to subsidize Bullseye's members to register for the Founder's Run. Both argued this will cause Bullseye to win, as points are awarded to students if they register. Mr Thomas proposed setting up a toll booth at the school's gates, in order to collect the proceeds during the arrival and dismissal of the students. 

Proposal of Sports Day plans by Mr Thomas

On 10th October 2025, Mr Thomas unveiled a series of plans and proposals for the 2026 Sports Day. Many of the proposals involved the inclusion of Mr Chan Lik Hoong as the main character of the Sports Day.

According to Mr Thomas, the plan involved lacing the field of the stadium which Sports Day will be held in, with Happy Boom Red Crackers that are normally set off during Chinese New Year by the Chinese community. The entire field would be strewn with firecrackers, with one of the firecrackers' explosives leading to the cauldron in which the flame will burn during the Sports Day. A cauldron was last used at the 2019 Sports Day. Mr Thomas had first publicly stated the usage of the firecrackers plan on 18th September 2025, and since February 2025, Wei Yiang had a sixth sense he would do that. Mr Thomas said that the firecrackers would become popularized on social media during the opening ceremony of the Sports Day and be remembered for generations. He said that the installation of the firecrackers was a must if Bullseye were to win, and that Mr Chan Lik Hoong would be remembered for generations should the firecrackers get installed, claiming that Mr Chan would command respect from the school. Should the management reject the idea, Mr Thomas called for the removal of the entire management team and leave the decision making process to the students.

Concerns have been expressed over potential violation of the school's Student Code of Conduct and also greater school policy. Mr Thomas said that Mr Chan Lik Hoong should obtain permits from the school before installing the firecrackers on the field. Mr Thomas told Wei Yiang to write a proposal to the school in order to consider installing firecrackers on the field. According to Mr Thomas, Ms Colleen, the current principal, would be in favor of the installation of firecrackers. Ms Colleen has since expressed that no firecrackers plan be approved. 

The firecrackers, connected to the cauldron, would be lit by Mr Chan Lik Hoong after the end of a torch relay involving the four house captains. According to Mr Thomas, the order of passing the torch would begin with Slamdunk, followed by Touchdown, Homerun and finally Bullseye. The House Captain of Bullseye would be the last captain to hold the torch and according to Mr Thomas, it would symbolize the importance of Bullseye. He would pass the torch to Mr Chan Lik Hoong and then Mr Chan himself would light a fuse from the field facing directly in front of the grandstand. The firecrackers would burn, explode and pop in deafening noises, igniting the entire field, until the main cauldron is lit by the last string of firecrackers. Mr Thomas justified using Happy Boom Red Crackers to symbolize good luck in Chinese culture as well as the red being used to represent Bullseye. 100 strings of firecrackers were proposed to be wrapped around the entire field, according to preliminary estimates. However, this was revised to about 10,000 strings.

There are various versions of how the torch is to be lit. Some involved firecrackers sprinklers or fountain crackers or peacock crackers, to fire embers to the cauldron. Another plan involved using a laser to light the cauldron. Mr Thomas also proposed that the field of firecrackers be replaced by a large World War 1-era cannon which is also seen in pirate ships from the Peter Pan cartoon series which represented Captain Hook. In this case, Mr Thomas said that Mr Chan will put his torch to the cannon and fire embers to the cauldron with a loud bang while dressing up as Captain Hook. There were also plans to invite other members of the management to light the cauldron as well, such as Ms Praveen or Auntie Clarine, via the firecracker or cannon method. Mr Thomas had proposed Mr Tan Seng Kee, the school's Executive Director, to light the cauldron in the event Mr Chan was unable to do so.

The lighting of the torch would kick start the opening ceremony of Sports Day. Mr Thomas called for all the houses to march in in the same order as the torch relay - Slamdunk first, followed by Touchdown, Homerun and Bullseye. As the Bullseye contingent and marchers were to march into the stadium, Mr Chan Lik Hoong would carry one large flag and follow behind the house captain, who is carrying his flag. The flag which Mr Chan will carry is proposed by Mr Thomas to have the words "Stop the Steal, Save Bullseye", to call for fair play in sports, oppose cheating and doping, and to return the champion house trophy to Bullseye. Mr Chan would lead the Bullseye members onto the field in this proposal.

Mr Thomas had also suggested Mr Chan carry a lightsaber, which he last did in 2017 during the Teacher's Day celebration, or a samurai sword, to show the powness of Bullseye during the marchpast. Mr Thomas even proposed Mr Chan balancing the Bullseye flag with its flagpole on his head or hand, to create a stunt. This will then be followed by the National Anthem of Malaysia, the School Song, and the School Pledge and the official proceedings of Sports Day. Mr Chan would stand with the Bullseye members during the official proceedings. 

After the marchers had marched back into the stadium, Mr Chan would lead the Bullseye members in the dance competition to do tai chi dances. Mr Thomas said that if Bullseye's dance captain refused to admit Mr Chan to dance, he ordered that the captain be changed. Mr Chan, according to Mr Thomas, would then also subsequently be the one firing the start gun and running on the track during the events. 

When the Sports Day closing ceremony commences, Mr Thomas proposed that a small Japanese dojo stage be carried into the stadium. The stage would be of Japanese design and the stage will contain the sports podium that the first, second and third place winners will stand on. Chee Fooi Foon, the former principal of SJKC Shin Cheng Harcroft, was to stand on the podium to announce the winners of Sports Day. In the best case scenario, according to Mr Thomas, should Bullseye win, Chee Fooi Foon will announce Bullseye as the winner, shout some positive remarks about Bullseye, such as "Stop the Steal, Save Bullseye",  or "Hail to Bullseye", and then cheer. The Bullseye members would then climb onto the dojo stage where Mr Chan Lik Hoong would hand out the trophy to Bullseye's captain. Then, the Bullseye members would run around the field of the stadium, followed by a hologramic projection with the words, "STOP THE STEAL, SAVE BULLSEYE" on it. Chee Fooi Foon was to wear a red kimono on the Sports Day's dojo stage. 

Mr Thomas had called on all the management members to sprint and run on the track, from Mr Tan Seng Kee to Ms Praveen, Mr Chan, Ms Colleen and almost every management member was to be singled out. Mr Thomas said that Mr Tan Seng Kee was suitable to run because of the fact that many of his family members held Datuk titles. Mr Tan was also urged by Mr Thomas to participate in the Founder's Run. 

Chan Lik Hoong Intelligence Agency

In November 2025, Mr Thomas grouped the management team as the Changents, a name combining two words, namely Mr Chan Lik Hoong and "agents". It was a shortened form for "Chan's agents" by Mr Thomas. Subsequently, this was revised to the Chan's Intelligence Agency, and then the Chan Lik Hoong Intelligence Agency, with the initials CIA. 

The narrative that came out of this was that the Chan Lik Hoong Intelligence Agency members, being the management, have some distaste for Bullseye and do not want Bullseye to win, and that the management will not tolerate future Bullseye victories. The rationale of naming the management as such was to increase the hype in the Sports Day and give funny analogies for the students. Mr Thomas depicts the Bullseye members as the true heroes to stop the Chan Lik Hoong Intelligence Agency. Mr Thomas had hoped that the Chan Lik Hoong Intelligence Agency can help Bullseye win rather than play dirty over the sports events. 

Prior to the naming of the Chan Lik Hoong Intelligence Agency, Mr Thomas first coined the theme for the Sports Day. He proposed that the Sports Day theme be named as 'Ironman'. Then, it was changed to 'Ironchan', 'Ironchen', 'Champsters', 'Chee-roes', and 'Chan-gers'. 

Proposed Tan Sri titles for Chee Fooi Foon and Kuan Muk Lang

On 21st June 2025, SJKC Shin Cheng (Harcroft) held its 17th Anniversary Celebration. At the celebration, Principal Kuan Muk Lang and the Board of Directors of SJKC Shin Cheng Harcroft signed a plaque to establish the SJKC Shin Cheng Harcroft Alumni Association. Wei Yiang proposed that if Bullseye won the 2026 Sports Day, Chee Fooi Foon, the former principal of SJKC Shin Cheng Harcroft, would be awarded a 'Tan Sri' title to recognize her contributions to Bullseye, and that the 'Tan Sri' title will be awarded by the Bullseye members. This was wholeheartedly supported by Mr Thomas. Wei Yiang further exclaimed that the Tan Sri title can also be extended to Principal Kuan Muk Lang, the current principal of SJKC Shin Cheng (Harcroft), as she had announced her support for Bullseye during her own Sports Day closing ceremony at SJKC Shin Cheng Harcroft. 

During the 2025 SJKC Shin Cheng (Harcroft) Sports Day on 24th May 2025, Kuan Muk Lang was addressing the crowd and thanking the students before the closing ceremony and prize giving ceremony before recalling her own sports day as a student in her alma mater. That was when she said in Mandarin, "Principal Kuan myself was in the red team", drawing a lot of shock and awe from the students.

Mr Thomas cheekily suggested that the Tan Sri title be awarded to Wei Yiang for the efforts he had put into Bullseye. Subsequently, Mr Thomas also said that Wei Yiang would be able to accomplish Bullseye's victory, as he had the backing of so many Datuks that support Bullseye.

Announcement of the cancellation of Sports Day 2026

On 11th November 2025, during the final school assembly for 2025, Auntie Clarine, the founder of Nobel International School, 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.

Auntie Clarine, in the announcement of the concerts, recalled the previous occasions in which Nobel held concerts. The last time a concert took place and was organized by the school was the 2018 Beauty is the Beast Concert, followed by the Gen N Dreaming Out Loud concert in 2017; the 10th Anniversary Concert in 2014 and the Alice in Wonderland and Retro Concert 2010, which took place in the year 2010. Auntie Clarine subsequently announced that for the first time in Nobel International School's history, the 2026 concert would be a combination of both the Elementary and Junior and Senior School, as the previous concerts had been held separately between the two schools at the time. Auntie Clarine had wanted the students to develop performing arts skills aside from sports skills, which was the reason for such a concert. Discussions have been held by the management since July 2025 regarding the proposed concert. 

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.

The decision to cancel Sports Day and replace it with the Beauty is the Beast drew flak by many. Some proposed that the concert be held alongside Sports Day, as was the case in 2014 and 2017, when concerts by the Junior and Senior School were held alongside Sports Day. A petition was reportedly started by some students to reinstate Sports Day, but did not gain ground due to the lack of support. Nobel had reportedly avoided holding Sports Day and the concert simultaneously in the same academic year in order to focus on academics and IGCSE achievements.

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. 

Reactions to the cancellation of the 2026 Sports Day

When the 2026 Sports Day was cancelled in favor of the concert, many Year 11 students were upset that they could not have a Sports Day in their final year, just like the students who have graduated in recent years. Many were hoping to get a chance in the process to lead the sports events or the marchpast, banner and dance competition. 

Some students also felt that they have lost the ability to showcase their sports skills. In response, Mr Wong had said that those aiming to showcase sports skills can head to the MSSD tryouts to have their sports skills demonstrated at the district, state and national level. This response was echoed by Mr Lew Wei Him, who said that the school would like a mass participation event of all the students in the field of performing arts, and that students would have the best of both worlds. 

Reactions to the cancellation were also swift from alumni. Wei Yiang said that indirectly, Slamdunk had been berthed into its second victory year, and that the management wanted to stiffle Bullseye's chances of victory. Mr Thomas expressed his curiosity as to why the management team had wanted to hold a concert in place of Sports Day. 

2026 House Captain Election

Numerous individuals had announced their candidacy for the sports houses' house captain and committee members, while others had been nominated or lobbied by their peers. Wong Pey Yi was proposed for the house captainship by Lau Wei Yiang, and was suggested and supported by various individuals during the break times at Nobel. Other names proposed for the house captainship were Choo Han Yi, Ng Chi How or Ssarvesh. Si Jie was proposed to lead the dance team if chosen as the dance captain, and Zoe Siah was proposed for the banner captainship, due to their experiences in dance and art. The house captain election was open to Year 11 students of Nobel International School, and each house nominated six candidates from each house. 

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. The house captains were elected by paper votes and updated to the management. 

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. 

The election of Ong Zi Xin as house captain of Bullseye resulted in her being the oldest Bullseye house captain, surpassing Dominic Chow, when he was chosen at the age of 16 years old and one month of age; Dominic being born on 4th January 1997. Ong Zi Xin, being born on 2nd June 2009, was aged 16 years old and seven months at the time of the house captain election on 30th January. On the other hand, Caleigh Chan Li Ern, who is aged 17 years old and 28 days at the 2026 House Captain election, became the oldest ever individual to be elected either house captain or assistant captain. All house captains with the exception of Szi Wei are to be turning 17 in 2026, alongside most committee members, making this batch the oldest ever committees ever elected to office, surpassing the previous oldest committee which were from the 2025 batch. The 2025 batch subsequently surpassed the 2024 batch, which surpassed the 2023 batch, and subsequently, the 2013 batch.

The increase in aged students was due to students in Nobel not jumping a year level; students from government primary schools coming to international schools like Nobel have to jump a year in order to enter secondary school in Year 8 if graduating at Year 6. This resulted in students in Nobel graduating at age 17 rather than age 16. The population of 17-year-old graduates from Nobel is expected to increase substantially over the coming years until 2037, when students from national-type schools begin to see graduates at 16 years old. 

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. The Sports attire was colored black with shades of the colors of the houses, along with the words 'Ignite'. This pleased Mr Thomas, who called for black as the official color of the sports attire and that the management's sports attire can represent the Chan Lik Hoong Intelligency Agency uniform.

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. 

According to Mr Lew Wei Him, who explained the rules, each house was to cheer three times for the judges to record down the scores and also to hear the cheers of the students. The judges involved in the judging of the events were Mr Chan Lik Hoong, Ms Colleen Ng, Mr Wong, Mr Ryan Chan and Ms Mera. 

The first house to do the cheering was Bullseye, then Touchdown, Slamdunk and Homerun. Bullseye and Touchdown were located at the front of the hall while Slamdunk and Homerun were located behind the hall.

Prior to the cheering, Mr Lew Wei Him briefed the students on the rules of the cheer. He said that each house should cheer as loud as possible and face the judges. Only three attempts would be allowed regardless of how loud they cheered, but however, students are encouraged to be at their loudest on the third attempt. The house cheer for Bullseye was drafted by Joanna Crystal Vijaya. 

Slamdunk wowed the entire audience with a drumming performance and were led by Gabriel Soo, the assistant house captain of Slamdunk. Each house cheer was led by their respective captains. The houses were, in the order of rankings for the cheer, Slamdunk, Touchdown, Homerun and Bullseye. Each house received 100, 75, 50 and 25 points respectively.

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. This was then launched by Mr Dzul who is one of the PE teachers, as he wore a cape and stood in front of the students to announce the launch and opening ceremony of the telematch games. Mr Dzul was accompanied by Ms Colleen and the management team to launch the telematch games. 

Each house had to assemble and gather, and were broken off into groups to conduct the telematch games. There were no lessons for the day as the event begun at 8:00am, followed by the telematch games at 9:00am.

At 11:45am, the prize giving ceremony was held in the school hall and the students were asked to assemble for the prize giving. The points were revealed by Mr Dzul and were awarded by Ms Colleen, Mr Ryan and Mr Lew. The results were as follows:

1. Slamdunk (825 points)
2. Touchdown (800 points)
3. Homerun (785 points)
4. Bullseye (745 points)

Teh Szi Wei, Ivan Lai, Gabriel Soo and Lim Xin Jie were invited to receive the prize from Mr Ryan, who handed the awards to the top two houses, leaving Bullseye with nothing. The winners received a gift hamper from the teachers in conjunction with the Chinese New Year celebrations.

Criticism of the prize of the telematch winners

Lau Wei Yiang had lashed out at the prize given to the telematch winners, citing the gift hamper pack as "the most disgusting junk" ever awarded by the school. He pledged that if he was the house captain, he would have had charged the other houses to eat the junk and use the proceeds to register all Bullseye members for the Founder's Run. Wei Yiang further stated that there is no need for such a junk if he was house captain.

"Slamdunk had received the most nonsensical junk ever awarded in the history of Nobel International School. They received a Chinese New Year hamper because they are the champion house of the telematch. That is the most lamest award ever given to a sports house in the school. It's just a pile of garbage. Teachers in Nobel had awarded me a lot of junk food in the past, which I have rejected and am sorry to say so.

Me and my family do not need another bag of useless, disgusting food for Chinese New Year. We had tons of food already prepared for the Reunion Dinner. Chinese hampers sold at Chinese sundry shops already contain junk food, wine and unhealthy cuisine and nonsensical stuff. We are fine with receiving trophies and normal awards, but I am sorry to say that if I am Bullseye captain, and if Bullseye wins and we are called to the stage to receive such junk, me and the Bullseye members will NOT accept the junk. We have no interest to enjoy or wine and dine on the silly junk. 

I will propose to my committee, if I am house captain, to sell off the junk and charge a high amount of fees for people who want to buy it. Then, we use the fees to fundraise our registration for Founder's Run and win the Founder's Run instead. None of the Bullseye members would approve of such a disgusting junk! This is the most lamest and disgusting food ever! We will let the other houses eat the food but come up with a donation drive to help us win Founder's Run, but we bill it as a donation to another society or NGO instead. We want to win, win we must! This will address concerns that people are calling us out for our unsportsmanship spirit and also Bullseye's own security concerns. 

I propose that we sell the hamper at around RM 1,000 to a large corporation if needed. All proceeds will go to our Founder's Run funds. Better."

- Lau Wei Yiang, in reponse to the gift hampers being awarded to Slamdunk for winning the telematch.

The statement was countered by many folks saying that the students from the champion house should be given a chance to enjoy the stuff in the hamper and that Wei Yiang can choose to opt out from the gift.

On 10th April 2026, Wei Yiang proposed that Bullseye's elementary school wing, which won their Telematch competition, sell off the hamper as soon as possible to enable fundraising from Bullseye via the proceeds. He proposed raising about RM 10,000 from the sale of the hamper, which was seconded by Mr Thomas. Names proposed for the sale of the hamper by both Wei Yiang and Mr Thomas include Mr Chan Lik Hoong, the management team, or the general public.

2026 Founder's Run

Proposed revertment of the Founder's Run to a normal school day

Calls have been made prior to the 2026 Founder's Run to relocate the run to a weekday setting from its proposed weekend setting, with many people claiming the loss of Bullseye as the intention of the scheduling of the run. The Founder's Run has been on a weekend setting since the 2023 Founder's Run, when it was held at Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam on 22nd July 2023. Prior to the 2023 Founder's Run, the run was held on a weekday and during schooling hours. The last Founder's Run to take place on a weekday was the 2020 Founder's Run, which took place at the Bukit Jalil Park on 14th February 2020, which was a Friday. The calls for the reinstatement of the weekday runs were made by both Lau Wei Yiang and Mr Thomas.

According to Wei Yiang, the holding of the Founder's Run on a Saturday was a tactic to discourage turnout for the Founder's Run. Weekends are normally used by students to rest and relax at home, and some students have tuition classes, art classes, dance classes, music classes or other activities to go about during the weekend, resulting in the students being unable to participate in the Founder's Run. The potential low turnout has the capability to cost Bullseye the entire Founder's Run and halt its victory run since 2018, which was the longest victory streak of any sports house in any sports tournament held in Nobel International School at the time. Wei Yiang opined that if the Founder's Run really was to be held on a Saturday, a replacement holiday on the following Monday after the run should be given in order to replace the weekend. This has been done for Nobelfest in 2017, 2018 and 2019, but had not implemented for the Founder's Run since the weekend format was introduced in 2023.

Since 2023, the management team has made the opportunity of involving parents and alumni in the Founder's Run in an attempt to promote greater collaboration among the school's community. However, the timing, which became inconvenient for existing students, saw decreased participation. Holding the Founder's Run on a weekday would increase turnout among the students and enable students a two-day recovery than a one-day recovery. It would also promote unity and enthusiasm among the students. Wei Yiang had further pushed for the Founder's Run to be transformed into a further competitive element as well.

The management and teachers showed no favor of reinstating the weekday run at this moment as the run was to encourage turnout from other NGOs the school wishes to include, alongside the opportunity for parents and alumni to join. Teachers have complained of the possibility of lessons being disrupted should the run go ahead on a weekday. 

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. The registration fee for all categories was RM 100, and each runner was given a 2026 Founder's Run t-shirt and running bib, which contains a number and their name.

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. 

Had Bullseye managed to register all 250 members, it would have had surpassed Slamdunk to become the overall champion house. The decision by many Bullseye members to skip Founder's Run had drawn a lot of outcry, both from Wei Yiang, Mr Thomas and all the ex alumni Bullseye members. The Bullseye members were criticized for not trying and giving their best, and instead providing unreasonable justification, such as unathletic performance and lousy athletic skills.

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.

Concerns and controversies at the 2026 Founder's Run

The 2026 Founder's Run saw a lot of controversy, and according to Ms June, a former teacher of Nobel, it was poorly organized and had logged thousands of complaints among the participants throughout the entire duration of the run. There are various issues that have had been the subject of complaints and of or controversy throughout the duration of the run as well as its preparation process.

Choice of Putrajaya Wetlands Park as the venue of Founder's Run

Most of Nobel International School's community reside around the Damansara and Petaling Jaya area. 

Shortened distance of the run to 3km instead of 5km

Measurements of the route on Strava

Lack of hydration and aid stations along the route

During the course of the race, 

Low registration numbers among Bullseye members

The registration amount for Bullseye was called into question

Shortcutting of the route by 5km runners

The 2026 Founder's Run has resulted in a high number of course-cutting cases, a first for any Founder's Run. 

Insufficient car parking space and distance from parking space to the run venue

When the run was announced to be held at Putrajaya Wetlands Park, 

Ms Joyce's attitude towards Lau Wei Yiang during the 2026 Founder's Run

On three occasions during the organization of the Founder's Run, Ms Joyce was said to have had made very emotional remarks and demonstrated undiplomatic behavior to Lau Wei Yiang throughout the course of the run at Putrajaya. The behavior of Ms Joyce and the remarks she had made had been called into question and had attracted some form of controversy after Wei Yiang was asked to leave the Founder's Run by Ms Joyce. The response by Ms Joyce further caused backlash for and against Ms Joyce over the words and actions she had said. It has subsequently raised questions over the school's relationship with its alumni.

According to Wei Yiang, Ms Joyce had approached him on three occasions during the Founder's Run. The first occasion occurred when Wei Yiang arrived at the Padang Astaka's shed where the main event took place, in which he greeted Ms Joyce. However, Ms Joyce was unable to recognize him because he did not officially register and just walked into the event. Ms Joyce had reiterated that only those who had registered can be at the shed. Wei Yiang was subsequently told to head to the "public area" as he did not register. 

The distinction and introduction of the term "public area" became a turning point in which both Wei Yiang and Ms Joyce had different definitions of the term. What Wei Yiang had thought was that the term "public area" meant the places other than the shed, as many grown up and parents were seen outside the shed, and on the Padang Astaka. However, Ms Joyce was known to have had used the term to request that Wei Yiang leave the event immediately, and head to other areas of the park in diplomatic terms, to avoid offending him. This mix up in definition of the terms had caused Ms Joyce to get very fed up at him for not following her instructions and it had resulted in Wei Yiang also believing that he had followed Ms Joyce's instructions. The two different definitions had caused this conflict between Wei Yiang and Ms Joyce. 

Ms Joyce had also further stopped him and Mr Chuang from taking photographs of the event, as well as informed him prior to the end of several things and she had to apologize for being "rude" on the day. According to Ms Joyce, Wei Yiang cannot be stopped from visiting the Putrajaya Wetlands Park altogether as the school had no rights of control on members of the public. However, Nobel International School has the power to restrict visitors for its events. Ms Joyce also reiterated that alumni of Nobel International School are considered outsiders as per the school's security policy and that outsiders are required to write in to the school to seek permission before attending school events and that outsiders are not permitted to merely walk in to the events. Upon being permitted to attend, outsiders must comply to a set of rules and conditions set by the school.

Ms Joyce also reiterated that for the Founder's Run, alumni intending to participate in the event will need to officially register for the run and then obtain a bib and the official t-shirt. Furthermore, Ms Joyce had also stated that one of the main reasons alumni have to register was because the school had to organize the event with and in the vicinity of many strangers and outsiders, as well as provide a documented account of who was attending the event, as any individual who shows up un-notified can result in more complex logistics and circumstances to the event, such as the threatening of safety of the students; Ms Joyce further stated that student welfare was a priority for the school. She said that Wei Yiang was an unknown figure to the students and that he also did not know the students. Before being asked to retire from the event, Wei Yiang was requested by Ms Joyce to not bring his flags for future events, and refrain from joining the school events as much as possible and urged to move on with life. 

Reaction to the actions by Ms Joyce was mixed. Proponents of Ms Joyce's remarks highlight the increasing need for students security. Ashwin Jeyabalan highlighted the concerns of parents should their child mingle with an unknown outsider. He also said that Founder's Run was merely targeted at five to seventeen year olds and that Wei Yiang was a 25-year-old PhD student. 

Mr Benny, Wei Yiang's neighbor, described his presence at the Founder's Run as "being treated like a nonsense-nuisance". He said Wei Yiang wasn't appreciated and Mr Benny himself had anticipated the occurrance of this particular incident years before it happened. He criticized the Bullseye activities and projects as a "waste of time" and urged Wei Yiang to discontinue it, calling the Bullseye acts as an unproductive activity and action. He said that Ms Joyce was there to urge Wei Yiang not to continue the activities and events for the sake of his own wellbeing and future, which was also agreed upon by Ashwin. Pundits also raised the importance of the school in protecting its students and to avoid any untoward incidents on the day, such as kidnapping. 

AI literature further summed up the fact that Ms Joyce was legally right to deny Wei Yiang entry, as the school had rented the Padang Astaka from the Perbadanan Putrajaya, the city council of Putrajaya. As the school had paid a lot of money to rent the venue, other people taking advantage of the venue would be unacceptable as it wasted the school's resources. Furthermore, admitting only official participants would ensure the smooth organization of the event. It would also be unfair to participants who had paid to register and to attend, especially if unregistered participants crowd the venue and did not pay a single cent. Hence, Ms June, who had contacted Wei Yiang, further advised Wei Yiang to register as it would be only proper in terms of official policy, as it respected the school's organization of the event and would also be fair to those who registered and paid the entry fee for the run. 

Opponents of Ms Joyce's actions defended Wei Yiang's attendance at the Founder's Run, saying that only the school's principal, Ms Colleen Ng, had the right and the power to request the retirement of anyone present at the event. They argue that Ms Joyce's action was too overzealous and that she was undiplomatic, as no other school staff had requested Wei Yiang's retirement from the event, aside from openly welcoming him. They claimed that Wei Yiang "wasn't doing anything wrong" and that charging alumni just to meet their teachers was unacceptable, even if they had no intent of participating in the race. Some people questioned why the rush was made to send him off the race even if the event was about to finish. Wei Yiang opined that the teachers should have had let him stay and have a chat with few other people before being officially dismissed from the run. 

Many pundits rejected Ms Joyce' notion of the students not knowing Wei Yiang as he had greeted a couple of unknown teachers and students on the day of the run. The request by Ms Joyce to Wei Yiang not to bring flags to the Founder's Run was also called into question as it had the absence of a reason or rationale as to why he was no longer allowed to bring flags. The flags, according to Wei Yiang, were Bullseye flags brought to the Founder's Run as points were being tallied. The presence of the flags, as added by Wei Yiang, would help improve Bullseye's performance using the psychological aspects. Furthermore, many suggested that diplomatic language and effective communication should be emphasized separately. Many opined that Ms Joyce should have had instructed Wei Yiang to leave the event rather than using confusing and uncomprehendable language, as the "public area" definition had led both astray in assuming the definition of such spaces. Instead, Ms Joyce , according to pundits, could have had instructed Wei Yiang to watch from the sidelines instead of asking him to leave the event altogether, or showed leniency given that he had trouble complying with the directives due to ineffective communication rather than demonstrating outburst at her perception of Wei Yiang ignoring her directives. 

Overall, many people felt that Wei Yiang being asked to leave the event was unnecessary, given that there was no intent to cause any trouble. Many people had suggested that Ms Joyce keep her views to herself and not simply escort people out just because one had a personal disliking of a particular person.

Aftermath of the 2026 Sports Day Replacement Events

The 2026 Sports Day Replacement Events has called into question the future of Bullseye after its failure to win in either of the three consecutive years since the 20th Anniversary Sports Day in 2024. This dismayal performance of Bullseye has cast the spotlight on future Bullseye projects by Lau Wei Yiang and his team, as these projects are at greater risk of being unfulfilled due to the unsatisfying performance of Bullseye. Further backlash by Ms Joyce has prompted a review of all Bullseye projects by Wei Yiang and his team. 

Investigations and inquiry into the performance of Bullseye

Wei Yiang and Mr Thomas had constantly called for an investigation into Bullseye's performance in the 2026 Sports Day Replacement Events, after the dismayal last place finish for Bullseye for a second consecutive year. Bullseye last became a champion house in 2023, during the 2023 Sports Day which took place at the Panasonic Stadium in Shah Alam on 20th November 2023. Bullseye was also the champion house since 2019 at the time of its 2023 victory. Since then, the team had consistently faltered in every sports competition, finishing third place at the 20th Anniversary Sports Day on 2nd July 2024, ending last at the Unleash Sports Day 2025 on 28th February 2025, and also finishing last once again after the conclusion of the Founder's Run on 9th May 2026. Unlike 2024 and 2025, where Bullseye was once on the top of the leaderboard at some point in time throughout the competition despite not emerging as the champion house, Bullseye failed to even cross the third place mark during the Ignite 2026 Telematch Games, the 2026 Cheer Competition and the 2026 Founder's Run. It placed last in the Telematch Games, the Cheer Competition, the Founder's Run registration statistics concerning the number of participants from Bullseye, as well as the overall Founder's Run tally and official tallies in 2026. Many of Bullseye's runners had lost in the run, with only five Bullseye members winning in any of the student categories. 

Lack of athletic talent in Bullseye

The lack of athletic talent is the most frequently discussed issue of Bullseye's performance because of the fact that the athletics events contributes to the bulk of Bullseye's score. 

Ms Wendy Loo, a Global Perspectives teaching Year 7 and 8, had informed Wei Yiang that there are not so many athletic people in Bullseye nowadays that was compared to the athletic squad Bullseye possessed before 2019. This reason was mainly used as the justification of why Bullseye cannot perform very well, and it has been repeated and emphasized by various students from Bullseye, such as Brandon Cheong and Jayden Cheong, alongside other students from other houses, such as Carmen (Homerun), Caera Koh (Homerun), Joash Teoh (Homerun) and Azalea Wong (Touchdown). According to these individuals, Bullseye did not have the skilled athletes unlike in the past, and Carmen had explained that many of the top athletes were allocated to Slamdunk and Touchdown. 

Since 2013, the Bullseye squad comprised top athletic talent, such as Sean Mark and Jason Leing. However, as more Bullseye members kept on graduating from Nobel, new athletic talent would need to be inputted into Bullseye. The top athletic talent had caused a total of eight Bullseye Sports Day victories alone from 2014 to 2023, as the vast majority of top athletes were piled into Bullseye, or are being developed within Bullseye. The victories alone produced two victory streaks of consecutive wins; one from 2014 to 2016, and another from 2019 to 2023. There was a victory streak in the Founder's Run from 2018 to 2025, as well as the paired Nobel Cup victories of 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2023. The losing years of Bullseye, namely 2017 and 2018, saw Bullseye remain competitive with Touchdown, finishing in second place in those two years. Bullseye lost to Touchdown 648-649 in the 2017 Sports Day, and 751-828 in the 2018 Sports Day, before reclaiming the trophy in 2019.

When Bullseye lost for another slew of losses beginning from 2024, its performance had gotten even worse than the 2017-2018 losses. It slumped to a third place finish in 2024 and bagged last place in 2025 and 2026. In 2026, Bullseye had never increased its score past the third place mark, unlike last seen in 2024 and 2025. For the 20th Anniversary Sports Day in 2024, Bullseye led the entire tally from the Founder's Run until 5:30pm on the Sports Day, before being eclipsed by Touchdown. For the Unleash Sports Day 2025, Bullseye was leading the tally from 14th February to 20th February 2025. This did not happen in 2026, as Bullseye has failed to advance or change its placing in any sports event from the last place position. Bullseye last held a steady tally on its first place win during the 2016 and 2019 Sports Day without changing its position in the rankings. The loss of such athletic talent, hence was used as a claim and justification of the worsening performance of Bullseye by the current students. 

The loss of talent in Bullseye coincided with another aim by the management which was to prevent the multiple Bullseye victory streaks in an attempt to protect and give chances to the other houses. Previously in 2016, under Mr Narish and Mr Neoh, the management changed the goalposts by increasing the difficulty and complexity of the competitions, such as merging Nobel Cup with the Founder's Run and Sports Day, and increasing the amount of judging events as well as events that favor points for other houses. This resulted in Bullseye initially stumbling and losing, but it was eventually worked around by the Bullseye members and alumni who roped in to support the team. The management thus reduced talent going to Bullseye in an attempt to shake up the points once again, as new students who indicated their talent in sports from other schools that enrolled in Nobel were placed in the weaker houses. Since 2019, the management had targeted Slamdunk, the then consistent underperformer and last place finisher, in an attempt to deconsolidate talent from both Bullseye and Slamdunk. 

Unlike adjusting the difficulty of the events, which alumni like Lau Wei Yiang can use to leverage on the circumstances, from 2017 to 2023, reducing the talent available in Bullseye was enough to make it difficult for alumni like Wei Yiang to strategize to students, especially those who had no interest in sports. These were one of the consequences of Bullseye and Slamdunk swapping their positions; each house took the position of the other. 

If a student has no interest in sports, they would have a higher chance of disengaging compared to athletes which are skilled but have to face a much more difficult competition format.

Slamdunk took Bullseye's once first place lead while Bullseye became what Slamdunk was a decade ago. The exodus of Year 11 graduates year upon year further distorted the athletic composition of Bullseye, replacing athletic composition with non-athletic members. 

The excuses of the loss of talent were dismissed by Lau Wei Yiang and Mr Thomas. According to Wei Yiang, he felt that the Bullseye members should put themselves forward and try to excel in sports and commit themselves rather than waiting for talented athletes to be appointed to Bullseye. He further suggested that Bullseye members volunteer aggressively, learn new skills and try to participate in sports CCAs in order to change the composition of the athletes in Bullseye. He proposed that 100 Bullseye members join the sports CCAs offered in Nobel to train themselves up and prepare for major competitions and events to represent Bullseye. Wei Yiang warned that constant use of the justification that Bullseye has no athletes will result in self esteem, self demoralization and psychological depression among Bullseye's members, and thus would be less motivated to win, causing Bullseye to lose in the upcoming Sports Days. This would create a repeated depressing cycle. He urged the Bullseye members to believe in themselves and spend more time to train in order to change the results in the future.

On the other hand, Mr Thomas has suggested that the school open opportunities for alumni to take up the roles of the house captainship and also participate in the sports events. Currently, Nobel has no desire to offer these to alumni and has restricted alumni from doing so, opting for current Bullseye members to volunteer themselves instead. The school prefers to serve and offer such positions to its current students and alumni are barred from such activities. According to Mr Thomas, this would increase the composition of athletic performance and allow students who have no chance of participating in the sports events to do so.

Perception of Bullseye by Lau Wei Yiang

The perception of Bullseye, by Lau Wei Yiang, as well as the entire sports events in Nobel International School, had drew both curiosity and criticism from teachers, parents, students and members of the Nobel International School community. 

Wei Yiang believes that Bullseye should be more than just a sports house, but something bigger and something happening. He wants Bullseye to become famous. To aid the success of Bullseye, Wei Yiang used as many analogies as possible to keep the house exciting and interesting, and to continuously win the Sports Day and other major events. 

Wei Yiang wishes for Bullseye to become famous via winning the sports events, because according to him, Bullseye needs to win in order to become famous due to its name being on the top of the rankings. To achieve this, Wei Yiang has consistently volunteered to propose as many plans as possible for Bullseye. 

Since Bullseye's 2014 Sports Day victory, Wei Yiang has proposed a dozen or so plans each year, even after he had graduated from Nobel. The plans have ranged from sports strategies to theoretical analogies to ensure Bullseye's victory. However, some of his plans tend to go overboard and have caused a lot of controversy.  The analogies can range from the most simple methods, such as Six Seven, to as big as the United States presidential elections. Wei Yiang scripts these analogies to the extent that Bullseye's own history appears even more interesting than cartoons, television shows or even geopolitics.

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Consideration of Ms Joyce' remarks and advice

Distinction between outsiders and members of the school community

The issues raised by Ms Joyce focused on student safety, student security and student welfare, as it is Nobel International School's duty to have a duty of care for its students. Hence, there is an importance raised by Ms Joyce in terms of alumni writing in to the school to notify the school's management so that the management of the school can take note of which outsiders are coming, as alumni are classified as outsiders as per the school's security policy. 

The term "ex student" or "alumni" in Nobel International School is not an official term. Individuals are either classified as students, staff or outsiders. Outsiders include parents of the school as well as alumni. Students of Nobel who graduate or resign from the school begin to be administered as outsiders from the next calendar year or next term. Ex students are not treated in an official capacity due to the school's limit on creating an official register for alumni.

When Wei Yiang was a student of Nobel, communicating to the house members was not a problem as everything was planned and executed within school grounds. Students are given access to the school facilities and the ability to meet their peers in the school. Information is readily available from teachers and staff, who are also within reach. However, upon graduating from Nobel, Wei Yiang loses this privilege of meeting students or staff, or to receive information, as such privileges are only given to members of the school community. Therefore, this resulted in Wei Yiang having to manually ask every student or teachers for information via their personal contacts, rather than receiving direct announcements from the school. Such circumstances were blamed by Wei Yiang's own Year 11 graduation on 16th November 2017, which resulted in him being spurn such circumstances. 

The graduation and subsequent labeling of him as an outsider by the school has forfeited Wei Yiang's rights to compete under the Bullseye name; ex students competing in the Founder's Run do not contribute any point to their sports house following their graduation. Wei Yiang was also forfeited of any luxuries and privileges in Nobel following this juncture. While the management knows of Wei Yiang as their student at a point of time, the management is still required to follow their own policy of treating him as an outsider in order to protect the interests of the current school community. 

Attempts by Wei Yiang to engage with current students and teachers have been met with mixed feelings. While some like Mr Thomas welcome the increased engagement, the stance of Nobel International School's management team has been mixed, but overall, parents and the management may perceive this as a form of concern rather than celebration. The distinction of the term "outsider" completely changes the ballgame as to how things should work in the sense of the Founder's Run, and what Wei Yiang should eventually do. 

Wei Yiang's considerations and concerns on outsiders

According to Wei Yiang, each academic year sees an exodus of students, be it by graduation or by resignation from the school. Since 2018, alumni population has eclipsed the population of current students studying in the school. His concern was that in a few years, everyone in the school would have had graduated and questioned what would the school do with alumni after they have graduated. According to Wei Yiang, the school will have a "big outsider problem" should this process follow through.

Wei Yiang opined that Nobel should continue to engage with its alumni after they have graduated from the school and to build on the positive relations developed between students and staff during their time in Nobel. He raised concerns that certain teachers will resign from the school and that students could not keep in touch with them. He proposed that an ex student pass be considered to allow alumni to visit the school and to allow staff to keep in touch with their former students.

 

Ms Joyce's points on alumni attending school events

According to Ms Joyce, ex students, former teachers, retired staff, outsiders and alumni are considered under the "outsider" category by Nobel as per the school's security policy. This means that they are barred from entry into the school's day-to-day operations as student safety would need to be upheld. Should any of these individuals choose to visit Nobel International School, they would need to notify the school of their intent to visit, and they may only visit after the school has greenlighted their request to visit the school. This policy also applies to school events held outside the school as Nobel is using the venue or using certain facilities and logistics to hold their events. As the students are the centerpiece and focus of the events, Ms Joyce explained that student safety from outsiders is a priority, and that the school is responsible for their welfare. Outsiders have to follow rules and policies should they be greenlighted access to the school's facilities or its events as outlined in the terms and conditions.

It was also highlighted by Ms Joyce that only certain events are opened to alumni, and that alumni would only be permitted to attend the relevant events that are open for them. Ms Joyce also highlighted that the school would need to be informed or need to know who is coming so as to ensure that the student's welfare are taken care of, as school activities and facilities are restricted zones.

According to Teo Kiam Fu, the school will bear the utmost responsibility should they be found to be careless in their guidelines, or if a visitor were to scold and threaten students on school grounds or at school events. Parents would be angry with the school if their child was put at risk and that many parents would withdraw their enrolment of their child in the school, a claim backed by Ashwin.

Wei Yiang's points on alumni attendance at school events

According to Wei Yiang, building on the points of consideration of outsiders, the school should enhance its relationship with their alumni. School events, such as field trips, that are being held outside of school, are the only options for alumni to meet with current students as well as their teachers. 

Ms Joyce's points on Founder's Run logistics

For the 2026 Founder's Run, Ms Joyce builds on the points of alumni attendance at school events, as each event has different rules and circumstances. In the case of the 2026 Founder's Run, every outsider would need to register, be it parents or alumni, because Ms Joyce said this would allow the school to document the number of outsiders present at the event, and that the school would not allow walk in by outsiders to view the Founder's Run, a stance that previously was not held by Nobel; the 2025 Founder's Run saw Wei Yiang coming into the run without any issue despite not being registered, and those who weren't registered cannot claim prizes. Ms Joyce also said that these groups are invited for the run because Nobel International School intends to raise funds for Fungates Superflow Foundation.

An official registration meant the payment of the registration fees to the school, which cost RM 100 per participant, and the retrieval of a Founder's Run t-shirt and bib to the participant. Wei Yiang wore his marathon race singlet to the run on 9th May 2026.

Wei Yiang's points on why he didn't register for the Founder's Run

According to Wei Yiang, he has outlined a few points why he chose not to register for the 2026 Founder's Run. 

Ms Joyce's points on Wei Yiang moving on from Nobel

Ms Joyce has

Flags, banners and props display

Ms Joyce, in her request to Wei Yiang, has requested that the flags and such props not be brought to future sports events and Sports Days.

Proposed employment of Lau Wei Yiang at Nobel International School

Some people have proposed that Wei Yiang 

Published on 15th July 2025

Edited on 18th May 2026

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