The Philippine University Games, abbreviated as the UNIGAMES, is a national collegiate sports competition in the Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 organized by the UNIGAMES, Incorporated. Founded in 1996, it was first held at the University of St. La Salle

University of St. La Salle

The University of St. La Salle , located in La Salle Avenue, Bacolod City, Philippines, is a Catholic private university run by the De La Salle Brothers. Established in 1952 as La Salle College-Bacolod, it is the second oldest campus originally founded by the congregation in the country...

, the founding host, in Bacolod City

Bacolod City

The City of Bacolod , is a highly urbanized midsize Philippine city. It is the capital of the Negros Occidental province. Having a total of 499,497 inhabitants as of August 1, 2007, it is the most populous city in the Western Visayas Region. It is currently ranked as the 17th most populous city in...

, Philippines

Philippines

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. The UNIGAMES is composed of fourteen (14) sports disciplines namely Athletics, Badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

, Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, Chess

Chess

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, Football, Lawn Tennis, Sepak Takraw

Sepak Takraw

Sepak takraw , or kick volleyball, is a sport native to the Malay-Thai Peninsula...

, Swimming

Swimming (sport)

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, Table Tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

, Taekwondo

Taekwondo

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, Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, and Beach Volleyball

Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

. In the 2010 UNIGAMES held in Silliman University

Silliman University

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, Dumaguete City

Dumaguete City

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, Archery

Archery

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was also introduced.

• Founded in 1996 by Brother Rolando Dizon, FSC, then president of University of Saint La Salle in Bacolod City.
• Games are a Visayas-based national event. USLS serves as the main office and has hosted all annual games except in 2003 when the games were held at De La Salle-Dasmariñas (Cavite).
• USLS has hosted the games nine times from 1996 to 1999, 2011, and 2004-07.
• Foundation University (Dumaguete) hosted in 200, 2002, and 2008. Central Philippine University (Iloilo) was home to the games in 2009 while Silliman University (Dumaguete) hosted the event last year.

- 1996 1st Unigames-Bacolod hosted by USLS.

- 1997 2nd Unigames-Bacolod hosted by USLS.

- 1998 3rd Unigames-Bacolod hosted by USLS.

- 1999 4th Unigames-Bacolod hosted by USLS.

- 2000 5th Unigames-Dumaguete hosted by FU.

- 2001 6th Unigames-Bacolod hosted by USLS.

- 2002 7th Unigames-Dumaguete hosted by FU.

- 2003 8th Unigames-Dasmarinas hosted DLSU-D.

- 2004 9th Unigames-Bacolod hosted by USLS.

- 2005 10th Unigames-Bacolod hosted by USLS.

- 2006 11th Unigames-Bacolod hosted by USLS.

- 2007 12th Unigames-Bacolod hosted by USLS.

- 2008 13th Unigames-Dumaguete hosted by FU.

- 2009 14th Unigames-Iloilo hosted by CPU.

- 2010 15th Unigames-Dumaguete hosted by SU. (47 colleges, 14 sports and Archery Exhibition Game.)

- 2011 16th PSC-Unigames Capiz hosted by CPC. (48 colleges, 14 sports.)

• Colegio dela Purisima Concepcion, home to the games for 2011, is the first college to host the Unigames.
• The Philippine Sports Commission has identified the Unigames as a vital link in the development of a grassroots-based national sports program and considers it the PSC’s official tertiary games. The event is now called the PSC-University Games.
• In 2011, volleyball has the most number of entries with 24 teams entered in the men’s division and 18 in the women’s division. That is followed by men’s athletics and men’s basketball which have 17 teams each.
• The University of the Philippines and the College of Saint Benilde have the most number of teams fielded with 15.

External links

• Official website
• http://inthezone.com.ph/main-articles/Facts-about-the-University-Games/1089.html