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The Virtual Empty Hands and Team Artistic Pencak Silat Competition for Pre-teens 2020 is hoped to identify potential silat exponents for the Brunei Darussalam Schools Sports Council's Pencak Silat Team. The Co-curriculum Education Department, Ministry of Education through the Sports Council Secretariat and Physical Unit as the competition's organisers a judging session yesterday morning at the department. 

5 male participants took part in the Boys Individual Category while the Girls Individual Category had 3 participants. The judging was conducted by a qualified jury from Brunei Darussalam National Pencak Silat Association, PERSIB. The competition is hoped to act as an avenue for the development of schools silat exponents and a platform for assessing their performance. The event was attended by Dayang Hajah Hajidah binti Haji Abdul Wahab, Acting Director of Co-curriculum Education, Ministry of Education and Pengiran Haji Abdul Karim bin Pengiran Haji Metassan, Vice President of PERSIB.