KOMBAT - The Big Fight

    All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy - the standard one liner we have been using to justify the elongated absence from home, since time immemorial! Well, jokes apart, sports have a special place in our lives. Keeping this in mind, CIIT organised 'KOMBAT - The Big Fight', an interhouse Table Tennis and Chess Tournament, (29th - 30th August 2001). Right from the practice sessions, participants from all the four houses were brimming with enthusiasm - aiming for the kill. The Table Tennis matches while there was one team each for the doubles event. The Chess matches had a single category and included four participants from each house. Both tournaments followed the knockout style of progression.

    The winners of each category were

Boys singles	Anurag Paliwal
Girls singles	Shikha Somani
Boys doubles	Mudit Marwah and Ashish Palod
Girls doubles	Shikha Somani and Neha Bhargava
Mixed doubles	Ashish Palod and Neha Bhargava

    The runners up were

Boys singles	Ashish Palod
Girls singles	Nishtha Kashyap
Boys doubles	Kunal Gupta and Hitesh Jain
Girls doubles	Nishtha Kashyap and Swati Kakkar
Mixed doubles	Sonal Tondon and Shivani Kabra

    Siddhartha Shrivastava won the chess tournament, which the runner up was Prateek Dhingra

    The point system formulated by the Sports Committee awards 10 points to the winner and 5 points to the runner up. At the end of the tournament, the individual points tally reads as follows:

Knorr	75
Nydam	35
Oseberg	25
Oakfest	13

    Hearties congratulations to all the winners and the Sports Committee! KOMBAT was a great success! We bid them good luck for the future and hope for the continued, sincere, and dedicated participation in the future as well.

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