Ascendas Sports Meet - My experience (Sept 2012)

Everyone was excited, when we received a mail from the our organizations Sports team! The headline of the mail was captivating “Tech a break - IT is Playtime ( Ascendas Sports Meet 2012)”. Ascendas who are the Asia's biggest space provider conducted this Annual sports meet -2012 on 6th and 7th of September.There was enthusiastic participation from over 45 companies and more than 1500 parkities had participated in the event. The participants were from both MIPL and ITPC Tech Parks competing in around 8 categories of indoor and outdoor events. The events included carrom, chess, snake and ladder, Quiz, Throwball, volleyball, football, brisk walking and slow cycle race. It was surprising to see many associates from our organization participating in the tournament in middle of the committed work. We had an initial knockout games in Ascendas - MIPL campus for Volleyball and Throwball events. The teams which got selected had their next rounds conducted at Ascendas-ITPC Tech park on 7th Of Sept. We had participants from our organization participating in all the 8 events that took place.I was all excited, because i was participating in the throwball tournament with my team (9+1 sub). We were pretty much sure of winning the match because our team was really strong. It was only when the throwball tournament was above to start, we came to know there are around 43 teams competing against eachother. To add to the shock, we also came to know that the throwball teams from other companies had atleast 4 guys in a team and ours was the only team with all girls in it! But we gathered our confidence and played the match with 2 guys in our team. We had to make them understand all the rules of the game in 5 minutes. All were knockout games till finals! We won around 3 matches to reach the semis..We were into the semis the top 4! Unfortunately we lost in the semi finals by 2 points but it was a real tough fight.Highlights of our organizations performance:Gold medal in slow cycling Runners up in football2nd Runner Up's in Throwball (In one of the matches it had all girls team whichi won over an all male team)At the tournament we had an amazing flash mob and an award ceremony. Apart from the Gold and Silver Medal, we also secured Second place in the “Overall Champion” Award. It came as a surprise to all of us! It was the result of team spiritThe Ascendas sports meet provided a platform for all the companies to showcase their talent. All together it was a great event.