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Torque (The Sports Club)

The primary idea of this club is to promote camaraderie in the batches through sports events and secondary aim is to encourage sports and games as an instrument for physical and mental agility. The club organizes competitive cricket tournaments, football matches, billiard competitions and many indoor games. Some of the major annual events of this club are the Aurobindo Chaudhuri Memorial Cricket Tournament, GOAL – the Football Tournament and the Sports Week.

IIPM Lucknow organizes a pool competition

Torque club of IIPM Lucknow organized a pool championship on 24th Jan 2012. The event had total of 22 participants where the first round led to quarter final where we had 8 participants and out of which we got our final four. Both the semi-finals were equally balanced where all the four players showed their sporting skills. The final was played between Rahul Singh and Avinash Kushwaha. The entire match lasted for around half an hour where the result came out only after three mind blowing frames and finally Rahul Singh won the championship.

IIPM Kolkata organizes a Table Tennis Tournament

Torque Club of IIPM Kolkata organized a Table Tennis Tournament held within the campus itself on the 24th and 25th of January which was the first sports event of the year. The event started with fourteen of the best players of the college competing for glory and after the first round, seven quarter finalists made it along with one more entering through a wild card entry, like reality TV, only that reality doesn’t get any better. Four intriguing quarter final matches were witnessed by a cheering crowd played by the four semi finalists. The final match was played between Neil Christopher from BBA and Shubham Banerjee from MBA, but victory belongs to only one in the end and hence the title of Table Tennis Champion was earned by Neil Christopher with scores as close as 20-15 and 20-19 in two breathtaking matches. This event was not only entertaining but refreshing and was thoroughly enjoyed by the students of IIPM Kolkata and was a great way to kick start the year of 2012.