AT THE FINALE

It’s the final countdown in The ET Citi Grand Masters arena. The warriors are chosen, the battlefield set and now the 21st Century hero is going to be revealed. The zonal rounds kicked-off in the vibrant financial capital of India and will see the sun set on its conquerors in Mumbai again.

The ET Citi Grand Masters has been gaining momentum at every zonal round creating a lot of passion among participating colleges and its students. The five competing teams hail from S.P Jain Institute, IIM Bangalore, IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Delhi and Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management. Intelligence and skill from the finest students of these top institutes will be tried and tested to its core at the finale, as the Management Quiz promises to challenge their excellence. The grand finale will pit the smartest minds against each other as Derek O’Brien supervises their every move.

This action packed evening is scheduled to be held at Hyatt Regency, Mumbai on 22nd January, 2009, 6.30 p.m. onwards. If you haven’t yet seen the biggest battle in the managerial showground, this is the final round. Don’t pass it by. Register online and assure your seat in a flaring final combat. 

The ET Citi Grand Masters is sponsored by Citi and has been powered by ICRA. Other Prize sponsors include Pierre Cardin, Samsonite and Travel Port.

A CLEAN SWEEP

Another action packed day at IIM Bangalore. But this time there were no twists and turns, no last minute goof ups, no probabilities. Gourav Chattopadhyay & Arvind Sharma of IIM, Bangalore had the ball rolling in their court right through the end. They are their zone’s Grand Masters to the core, not leaving anything to chance.

The zonal rounds this year stayed true to its custom with the home teams emerging as winners and ensuring their seat in the prestigious ET Citi Grand Masters finale. Let’s see who transforms into the ET Citi Grand Master on 22nd January, 2009. Don’t miss history in the making.

LAST BIG STOP…BANGALORE

We are nearing the end of the ET Citi Grand Masters and the last zonal round in Bangalore is yet to unravel our best warriors. The stories of heroic struggle in the prior zonal rounds create an air of inspiration, expectation and anxiety among the 6 well deserved participants who are:

Aditya Mahajan & Kanika Jhamb - ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad
Kamal Krishna & Praveen Anaswara - College of Engineering, Trivandrum
Gourav Chattopadhyay & Arvind Sharma - Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Abhishek Chawla & Manish Kothari – ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad
Raghavendra Kale & Narayanan AL - Bhavan SIET Institute of Management, Bangalore
Shakti R Bhagat & Amit Kumar – National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management, Hyderabad

Will the home team win again? Will support in huge numbers from other participating colleges encourage their peers to beat the pressure of home ground and conquer? The battle has reached Bangalore, don’t let it pass away. Be a part of it.

The Event flow is as follows:

9.30 am - Registration for participants

10 am - 12.00 pm - Bourse Game (Closed Door Event)

1.30 - 2 pm - Registration

2.00 - 3.00 pm - Debate

3.00 - 3.30 pm - Break

3.30 - 4.30 pm - Quiz

4.45 - 5.00 pm - Prize Distribution

We are one step away from our big finale, let’s see who our final team is.

SURVIVAL OF THE WITTEST

It happened in Mumbai. It happened in Ahmedabad. It happened in Kolkata. And now it happens in Delhi. The host takes it all. It’s the end of a fiery battle in Delhi and the results are in. IIT Delhi, the host, scrapes through to the final round to be held in Mumbai on 22nd January, 2009.

The day began with each team pulling in their best resources to be at the top, and then it boiled down to the last minute in the quiz. Sujith S & Gyanesh Kumar Sinha (Faculty of Management Studies) were leading before the last question but 5 points away stood Ashish Sharma & Anuj Jalote (Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi) quite composed. And then as the last 10 pointer question was being read out, the IIT Delhi team took a guess, blurted out the answer before the question was completed and it was right. The host team and companions broke out with elated cheer and excitement. They had won. It was sheer presence of mind, wit and luck that got IIT Delhi to still be in the running to win the ET CITI Grand Masters.

The pattern in the host colleges emerging victorious has only one answer. Home ground and peer support in large numbers. So for those participating in the Bangalore zone, take the tip and bring along enormous crowds from your college, as they will cheer you on and keep your spirits high while you strenuously try to be the next hero.

Waiting for Delhi….

Barely did we have time to catch our breath after the pulsating Kolkata Zonal Round , the Delhi Round beckons us, with new warriors , new challenges and a new story waiting to be written.

The teams competing for the Delhi Zonal Round of The ET Citi Grand Masters are:
(Not in any order of merit)

Sujith S & Gyanesh Kumar Sinha - Faculty of Management Studies
Shaleen Kumar & Parthiv Patel - IIM Lucknow
Garima Bansal & Chirag Taneja - Faculty of Management Studies
Ashish Sharma & Anuj Jalote - Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi
Ashsih Lath & Narendra Bansal - Institute of Management Technology
Amisha K Shah & Rishabh Maheshwari - Indian Institute of Management, Indore

The Event Flow is as follows

9.30 am - Registration for participants

10 am - 12.00 pm - Bourse Game (Closed Door Event)

1.00 pm-1.30 pm - Registration of audience and faculty

2.00 pm- 3.00 pm - Debate

3.00 pm- 3.30 pm - Break

3:30 pm-4:30 pm - Quiz

4:45 pm-5:00 pm - Prize Distribution

So be there on January 13, 2009 at IIT Delhi and cheer your team to victory!

Rising Like a Pheonix

Enthralling, heart stopping, blockbuster!!

Words fail us as we just can’t over the resounding success of the Kolkata Zonal Round. If we thought we had seen it all in Ahmedabad, the warriors of IIM Calcutta proved us wrong!!

After the pulsating bourse game, debate & quiz rounds, where fortunes swung with every question, we were faced with a never-before moment in the annals of the ET Citi Grand Masters. It was a three-way Tie between the Teams of Mayank Vora & Manish Kumar - Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management, Kolkata, Neeraj Prasad & Cheishta Katyal from IIFT, Kolkata and C Ramshankar & Abhishek Nagaraj - Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

It all boiled down to the all important Tie-Breaker, where C Ramshankar & Abhishek Nagaraj of IIM, Calcutta held on to their nerves and emerged victorious, to represent IIM C as the defending champions at the all important Grand Finale. The battle has just started to hot up!!

THE CARAVAN MOVES TO KOLKATA!!!

With soaring expectations, growing anticipation and an exhilarated spirit, The ET Citi Grand Masters combat zone is set at IIM C. The arena is set, the artillery ready and now we reveal the competitors. 

Harsha Khubchandani & Sankalp Baid – XLRI, Jamshedpur
Neeraj Prasad & Cheishta Katyal - Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata
Rahul Agarwal & Rohit Parmanandka – XLRI, Jamshedpur
Vishwas Shukla & Sushree Preeti Mohapatra - Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar
Sandeep Kumar Mohanty & Amrit Swain - Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar
C Ramshankar & Abhishek Nagaraj - Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

If you are ready for the big fight, come to IIM C on 5th January, 2009 at 1:30 pm. Put on your armor, take your position, shield your front line and drive your college to victory.

The Event flow is as follows:

9.30 am - Registration for participants

10 am - 12.00 pm - Bourse Game (Closed Door Event)

1.30 - 2 pm - Registration

2.00 - 3.00 pm - Debate

3.00 - 3.30 pm - Break

3.30 - 4.30 pm - Quiz

4.45 - 5.00 pm - Prize Distribution

DOWN TO THE LAST MINUTE

The journey just keeps getting better and bigger. The battle field has moved from Mumbai to Ahmedabad, creating euphoria along the way. The walls of IIM Ahmedabad thundered with joyous claps on 23rd December, 2008 as the crowd hailing mostly from IIM Ahmedabad, were ecstatic when their peers dominated the zonal round.

Two IIM Ahmedabad teams were on par with each other after the exhausting debate and quiz. It was a battle in need of a tie breaker. A series of three buzzer questions took Deepak Sekar & Saurabh Basantani to the finals of ET Citi Grand Master.
The teams held their fortress strong through the battle but one emerged victorious.

There were others who left as winners themselves, with a whole bag of goodies being given away to the well wit audience. The ET Citi Grand Masters promises to be an arduous but rewarding task for anyone who believes he can be a hero.

Three rounds are yet to go, three winners yet to be crowned and many more exciting prizes yet to be won. Be a part of the scintillating ET Citi Grand Masters in the zone closest to you and witness history in the making.

The juggernaut rolls on…

After the excitement of the Mumbai Zonal Round, the action now shifts to Ahmedabad, for the second zonal round of The ET Citi Grand Masters in IIM Ahmedabad. With four teams from the institute in the fray, there will be full support for the home team. But we are sure that the remaining two teams from Nirma Institute of Management will be more than eager to spoil the party!!

So, here they are, the six teams who will battle it out at Ahmedabad Zonal Round of ET Citi Grand Masters.

Akshay Dharmatti & Vaibhav Gupta - Nirma Institute of Management
Amit Mittal & Amit Gupta - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Amit Singh & Nitesh Bhutada - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Ashish Surjan & Akhil Goyal - Nirma Institute of Management
Deepak Sekar & Saurabh Basantani - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Rahul Jayanti & Amit Kushwaha - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

The Event Flow is as follows

9.30 am - Registration for participants

10 am - 12.00 pm - Bourse Game (Closed Door Event)

1.30 pm-2.00 pm - Registration for audience and faculty

2.00 pm- 3.00 pm - Debate

3.00 pm- 3.30 pm - Break

3:30 pm-4:30 pm - Quiz

4:45 pm-5:00 pm - Prize Distribution

So be there at IMDC Auditorium, IIM Ahmedabad on December 23, 2008 from 1.30 pm to cheer for your team as they battle it out for the right to be in the Grand Finale of ET Citi Grand Masters!

It’s a HIT!!!

What a kickoff!! The second edition of ET Citi Grand Masters kicked off in splendid style in the Mumbai Zonal Round. Six Teams gave their best and battled it out through a grueling series of the bourse game, the debate and the very electrifying management quiz.

The small yet boisterous crowd at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research had much to cheer as the home team returned from the ashes to emerge the Mumbai Zonal Round Winners. In a heart stopping final round of the business quiz, the local team took their chances and won the maximum points, thus dethroning the IIT Mumbai team of Prashanth Sampath & Sandeep Mathew Olickal.

The team of Aditya Gupta and Harish Sreedharan will now take on four other zonal round winners in the Grand Finale of ET Citi Grand Masters on January 22nd, 2009 at Hotel Hyatt Regency, Mumbai.

The ET Citi Grand Masters championship is conceived and co-created by The Economic Times and Citi. It is sponsored by Citi and powered by Icra. Other sponsors include Pierre Cardin, Travel Port, Qua and pagalguy.com. The event has been organised and managed by The Times Red Cell.

Announcing the Mumbai Zonal Round Participants!!!

The dust has settled, the cases are in, the evaluations are over. Its now time to announce the “warriors” who will participate in the Mumbai Zonal Round of ET Citi Grand Masters. The Mumbai Zonal Round will be held on December 18, 2008 at S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research.

The Mumbai Zonal Round Participants are:
(Not in any order of merit)

Amit Mittal & Suneet Deshmukh - IIT Mumbai
Aditya Gupta & Harish Sridharan - SP Jain Institute of Management & Research
Amit Soni & Tarvinder Singh - Narsee Monjee Institute Of Management Studies
Rajiv Trivedi & Devesh Gupta - Goa Institute of Management
Prashanth Sampath & Sandeep Mathew Olickal - IIT Mumbai
Sonia Rawal & Sanket Goyal - Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies

The Event Flow is as follows

9.30 am - Registration for participants

10 am - 12.00 pm - Bourse Game (Closed Door Event)

1.00 pm-1.30 pm - Registration of audience and faculty

2.00 pm- 3.00 pm - Debate

3.00 pm- 3.30 pm - Break

3:30 pm-4:30 pm - Quiz

4:45 pm-5:00 pm - Prize Distribution

So be there, and cheer your team to victory!

IT’S TIME FOR OUR NEW HERO!

It maybe exam season on your side of the ground, but you highly ambitious students do not seem to be perturbed by the pressure. Registrations and case study submissions are piling in from the top notch colleges and it looks like ET Citi Grand Masters is going to tap some promising future managers. With Bangalore set to witness the first wave of ET Citi Grand Masters bigger edition, students hailing from the zone don’t miss your one chance to battle your way to the top while encountering some of the trickiest questions in management arena. So students pull out the heaviest books, polish your brains and you can make history at the ET Citi Grand Masters B-School Championship. And to put your apprehensions to rest, last year’s winner Arnav Sinha made a special appearance on our website with his ’been there done that‘ useful tips through his comment in the Champions Speak blog.

Also, check out The Economic Times on November 27, 2008 for a snazzy new creative of ET Citi Grand Masters. It was Hercules the first time; any guesses who our hero is this time? 

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.”

Welcome to ET Citi Grand Masters!

Welcome to ET Citi Grand Masters. If you are still not registered to participate in one of the biggest B- School Championships, then what are you waiting for? It’s ‘THE’ buzz in all management campuses with posters adorning the most visible walls. It’s gonna catch B- School students wherever you are. Numbers of registered students are increasing everyday. So register now….your one chance to win watches by Pierre Cardin, designer bags by Samsonite and a quick getaway with a fabulous international holiday package by Travel Port.

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