Dato' Wee Jeck Seng DanceSport Challenge Trophy

As the National Sports Association for Dancesport MYDF are bound by the rules of the Asian Dancesport Federation (ADSF) and its international body International Dancesport Federation (IDSF). Now if you have been following the IDSF web site lately, you would have noticed that IDSF is now part of a bigger body call the World DanceSport Federation. Their web site now is http://www.worlddancesport.org/. This evolution as IDSF sees it is inevitable, because DanceSport does not only revolves around the Latin American or the Standard Dances that IDSF has been promoting. IDSF have many application for many other bodies promoting their dance form to join IDSF such as Rock n Roll, Break, New Vogue , Swing, Salsa and many more. IDSF accept the fact that Dance style are not static and being dynamic IDSF decided that perhaps a greater body be formed to accept and incorporate other dance forms in a more systematic and orderly manner. Go to the site, it is interesting. IDSF will remain unchanged and will be part of this greater body of World Dancesport Federation (WDF).
Now coming back to the Dato Wee Jeck Seng, the then Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Challenge Trophy. MYDF forerunner MPDC had approached the then Deputy Minister to contribute and lend his name to the Malaysian ranking Challenge Trophy. The kind Minister donated two Challenge trophy to MPDC and financially supported the ranking partially from the Ministry and also from his own pocket. MYDF are grateful to Dato Wee Jeck Seng for his kind contribution.
The Challenge Trophy as the name suggest are meant for Malaysian Grade A athletes who participated in the National Ranking to acknowledge that they are the Champion for that competition. Like in previous year the overall winner gets to keep the trophy after they win the most out of five (5) National Ranking.
The previous overall winner that kept the Challenge trophy were Michael Yong & Janet Gooi (Latin American), Anthony Chua and Anita Tan (Standard). They won all three (3) National Championship in a row and deservedly kept the challenge trophy. At that time it was called the OCM Challenge Trophy.
Year 2010 was the start of the next season of the National ranking. The first National  Championship was held on the  18th of April 2010. Alfred & Cecilia won the first MPDC National Ranking and they were handed the Challenge trophy for Latin American. Anthony Chua and Anita Tan had no problems whatsoever to return the Standard Challenge Trophy to MYDF before the 2nd National ranking. The understanding has always been that the Challenge trophy are to be returned to the organisers before the 2nd National Ranking.
The 2nd National Ranking was held on the 16th day of January 2011 in Muar,  Johore. I was reliably informed that the President Mr. George Tan has personally tried to contact both of them by phone and e-mail, months before the ranking to return the Challenge Trophy, but to no avail.
The 2nd National Ranking proceeded and Chua Zjen Fong and Evon Chong emerged the National Champion. It is highly regrettable that they were unable to lift the actual Challenge trophy, but to acknowledge that they are the Champion, the organisers have to borrow the Standard Challenge trophy for them to lift for the record.
Even after the event, the President of MYDF tried to contact Alfred Choo and Cecilia Yong to return the Challenge trophy so that it could be passed to the new MYDF National Champions, Chua Zjen Fong & Evon Chong.
Personally I can understand the pride of winning, I can understand that to lift the coveted Dato Wee Jeck Seng Challenge Trophy is an acknowledgment of their hard work and achievement. To lift the Challenge Trophy in the MPDC/MYDF Championship even once speaks volumes on your ability. It is commonly  acknowledge that you are judged by a fair panel of International IDSF adjudicators from local and overseas. Most of all, the Challenge Trophy cannot be obtained by means of manipulation and bribe.
However as the name suggest this is a challenge trophy, the winners are only given the license to keep  and return it to MPDC before the next National ranking. They have failed to do so.
To cling on to the challenge trophy is really pointless, in bad taste and reflect poorly on them. In the event if they have a problem or a question to ask, they can always contact the President George Tan, which they never did.
Whatever this ugly incident serve as a record of what poor sportsmanship is all about. Sigh!