Champions Speak

Last years ET Citi Grand Masters Championship was an exceptional success.

Vijay Anand, one of the winners of IIM Calcutta last year has this to say about the Championship.

“The ET Citi Grand Masters Championship is an excellent platform for B school students across the country to interact and compete with each other. The Championship evaluates the student’s all round capabilities through the case study, presentation and quiz. These three rounds pose a challenge to an individual as they test their every skill. Words of wisdom by eminent personalities supplemented positively to the experience. Lastly, winning the Championship works as an appendage to my C.V.”

Arnav Sinha had this to say about the championship:

“ET Citi Grand Masters is very well conceptualized and designed. I particularly found the cross questioning of the judges during the presentation round quite challenging to tackle. To aspiring participants of the Et Citi Grand Masters, I’d say don’t get bogged down by the level of the championship and the size of the prize, embrace it with as much confidence as you would any other competition and I hope luck is on your side. All the Best.”

This is a great site!!!

Are there any last minute touches we can do to be more competitive ???
And speak a bit abt the visibility u got after ur success ??

i would request vijay & arnav to giude the participants to focus on which important areas & what things the judges expect while judging the participants.

ET Citi Grandmasters championship seems to be very unique concept & one of it’s own kind in the country.It’s really good to see that ET & Citi have come forward to organize these kind of challenging management events.
These kind of events should be organized more oftenly which brings futute thought leaders of India on a common platform.

I wish all the very best to the participants of ETCG-2.

Hi! Didn’t expect people to actually comment here! Thought might as well put in my two cents, if it really helps anyone.

The most important part of the Zonal Finals last year was the quiz. And the Final event was a quiz too. So, there’s obviously a bias towards business quizzing and it’s very likely that a team that has been used to quizzing would win this year as well. And I am not trying to deliberately discourage students who don’t have much of a quizzing experience.

As for the other components, since the case-study analysis will be the first hurdle in getting short-listed, the teams should spend a decent amount of time in the analysis. We didn’t, and almost didn’t qualify because of that mistake. Our candidature at the Zonal Finals was also weak because of not having prepared the analysis well. Doing well in the Trading Game and extremely well in the quiz got us through to the Finals at Mumbai.

The Bourse Game was fun and requires basic intelligence to get a hang of. Some teams still managed to do badly, maybe because of nervousness, and so would suggest participants just take it as it comes without worrying about it.

We didn’t have a Debate last year, and it probably makes it more difficult to perform well on all counts.

A team that has at least one regular quizzer and one person who can think and speak properly at a short notice, would have an advantage I suppose. If you have both members like that (the way I was lucky to have in my team last year :D), nothing like it.