Hsinchu City’s Jiushe Elementary School (舊社國小) sent two teams to the competition -- P’anoh and Jiushe Spirit. P’anoh was doubly successful, winning the U12 boys team competition while their cheerleaders won the “team spirit” award. The cheerleading squads formed by the P’anoh and Jiushe Spirit teams’ parents and relatives to cheer them on became the players’ strongest backers. Jiushe Spirit’s cheerleading team also won a prize for their ingenious creative performance. The P’anoh team’s five members all came from P’anoh Village in Miaoli County’s Nanzhuang Township, four of them mainstays of the Jiushe Elementary School basketball team. They took the name P’anoh in recognition of their roots. Lo Shih-wei (羅詩偉), the Hsinchu Wufeng Township Office secretary who brought them to the competition, said the P’anoh team and their cheerleaders contain four children who have both Hakka and Indigenous heritage, very much in keeping with the spirit of the competition.
Taitung County’s Department of Civil Affairs called up Indigenous Amis and Hakka students to form the Amis-Sixian team and the Amis-Hailu team. Amis-Sixian was made up of Amis students and Hakka students who speak the Sixian-accented Hakka, while Amis-Hailu comprised Amis students and Hakka students who speak the Hailu-accented variant. Taitung County’s Department of Civil Affairs hoped the competition would raise students from different ethnic groups to respect different cultures from a young age, to think in terms of ethnic mainstreaming and to view participation from multiple perspectives.