SPJIMR team wins
Jury's Special Choice Award
in
Loreal E Strat Challenge finals at Paris

SPJIMR team won the Jury's Special Choice Award for being ORIGINAL & POETIC at Paris on April 22, 2003 in the Loreal E Strat Challenge finals.

The SPJIMR team which consisted of Ajay Gopalkrishnan, Bijo George and Manish Kurien, first year PGP students called themselves INDOTIGERS were one of the 8 finalists which included Harvard from USA and Insead from France, selected from 800 teams from 80 countries. They were the zonal winners from Asia Pacific 2 beating 32 teams from India including 11 teams from IIMs.

Some salient features of the game.

No. of teams registered from Asia Pacific	581
No. of teams selected to play from Asia Pacific	91
No. of teams registered from India	132
No. of teams selected to play from India	32
No. of teams selected to play from SPJIMR	3

Countries in Asia Pacific 2 Zone that registered were:

Malaysia, India, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Philipines, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgistan and Afghanistan.

215 teams reached the semifinals totally out of 800 worldwide participants. 21 teams from Asia pacific 2 qualified for the semi-finals, and out of the 6 teams, which qualified from India, 3 were from SPJIMR. In the worldwide rankings, SPJIMR was 15th.

To know more about the contest go to http://www.e-strat.loreal.com/

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Contributed by -
Prof. Abbasali Gabula,
Chairperson External Relations,
SPJIMR.