Counter Strike Tournament

Digidice started rolling here at IIM Rohtak at 10:00 pm, 18^th august 2010 with a tournament featuring every gaming freak’s favourite game “Counter Strike”. The organisers of the tournament, Amit Bansal and Vismay Agarwal had arranged a room exclusively for gaming competitions, a room which was big enough for 8 of countries future managers to dwell in virtual combat.

The tournament had the usual rules plus some additional ones like, automatic weapons were not allowed to make sure each player will have to earn his respect, no shields were not allowed to compel each player to be stealthy in the virtual battle field.

The following were the teams that had taken part in the competition:

Team 1
Abhishek Vaish	Ashutosh Kumar	Prince Kumar	Priyabrath Brahma

Team 2
Mohit Salyiva	Prateek Jain	Romesh Kumar	Tapojyotee

Team 3
Abhimanyu Sahai	Prashant Chourasia	Sourabh Modi	Vismay Agarwal

Team 4
Ankush Garg	Kushal Lokhande	Roshan Jha	Venkat Bhargav

Right from the beginning the experts stood apart from the novices, as most of the matches had winning margins that can be compared to the Grand Canyon in counter strike terms. Team 2 and Team 4 were almost equally matched, while Team 1 begged to be remembered Team 3 stood out, they were really a class apart, there were memorable moments, moments when the entire room went bursting into laughter, moments like when Sourabh Modi started hurling his knife to get Ankush Garg slayed and he managed to do that so regularly it kind of ended up being a ritual that has to be followed in every round.

There was this extremely close match between Team 2 and Team 4 which ended with a score of 16 – 14 to Team 2, the match had arguably the most exciting climax with Team 2 coming back from 12 – 14 to seal the deal by winning 4 consecutive games.

The other matches majorly saw Team 3 using their opponents to wipe the floor, these matches saw score lines like 16 – 0, 16 – 0 and a very interesting 16 – 9, in which Modi got a devilish idea, a deal that he struck with Team 1, the deal was that if they throw away 9 games and get Team 1 in the final, Team 1 should give the entire cash prize they win If they lose with a score below 16 – 3 in the final, which they eventually did (16 – 1) , which saw Team 3 running away with both the first and second prize.

Team 3 although playing together for the first time showed immense co ordination to wipe out their opposition, something which is really commendable. Hope these fine men will be able to convert their success into other fields as well, and keep expecting much more from Digidice.

The following were the score lines of the matches;

Match	Winner	Score
Team 1 vs. Team 2	Team 1	16 – 6
Team 3 vs. Team 4	Team 3	16 – 0
Team 1 vs. Team 4	Team 1	16 – 6
Team 3 vs. Team 2	Team 3	16 – 0
Team 2 vs. Team 4	Team 2	16 – 4
Team 3 vs. Team 1	Team 3	16 - 9
Finals
Team 3 vs. Team 1	Team 3	16 – 1

IIM Rohtak