B-School Fests : News, Praises, Cribs, what not

[lazycat]

Hi all,

Its again that time of the year when there is just one thing on the mind of all B-Schholers- CV points and yups, the B-school fests which grants you these veritable boons. Its the unofficial rankings used by B-schoolers every yr. Since -it benefits everyone, not much fudging happens and- u get to see how u perform vis-a-vis the other b-schoolers, b-fests add great value also, in addition to the prize moneys that they offers. Lets see whats happening this year..

Opinions are personal, and everyone may have one of their own right? ( Am from IIM C, so have tried to be impartial to our event also, and if u still cant digest, then u better leave that part off ) :P

Guess the deadlines for submissions were the earliest for IIM B-Vista, and not sure of how well they marketed the fest. Many of us missed the fest and in my opinion, Vista passed with creating much fizz. Lacked the online games, the gradual build up etc etc

And NITIE Mastishk happened around this time itself. Pretty well done, i guess from the feedback i recieved from many of my friends. Definitely a step forward NITIE.

MDI- Imperium- They succeeded in creating enuff energy among the junta, but the way the fest was handled leaves a lot to desire. Anyways, they are still on the learning curve, and i guess they will do fine in the coming years.

XLRI- Ensemble - This is one fest, the prelims of which are going on right now. The site is okayish, and the events are all good. But XL seems to be low in enthu. Guys, ur quality and innovation are worth much more advertising than u guys are doing right now. And the website seems tooo basic. But the evnts are all worth it, and fall perfectly in place with the theme "Inverting the ptramid"

IIM Iris- Definitely THE FEST till now. Excellent publicity, nice website and the number and variety of online events that they have is AWESOME. They have started pretty early with their flagship event ASHWAMEDHA and its been some one month, and they r still going all out. Amazing energy guys. Keep it up . Hope you guys succeed in carrying this on to the fest @10-12th november.

CONFLUENCE - Guess the name is enuff. The most respected festival, and supposedly the best. Eyecatching website and excellent publicity, but,yeah these things come naturally. And even the inidividual events like Livestock and Mousetrap have become brnads on their own. But terrible mix up with Mousetrap raises lots of questions. It was not the mix-up which was appaling, but the response to these. Anyways, hope they manage to pull it off this time too.

IIMC- INTAGLIO- Coming up in dec- 23-25th. The events have just now started. Contains all elements of Confluence other than the brand name i guess. But coming up in a major way since last yr. This time either they have messed up with launching events so early (about 2 months prior) or they are confident enuff to keep up the tempo for the entire 2 months. If they manage to do the latter, well, next yrs Confluence team will need to work double hard i guess.

Manfest- Lucknow- Manfest, comes up in January. Dont have much info about the same, which i guess means that they have to popularise their fest in a much better way. But these are strictly third party views since last yr also i was not aware of the fest and nor do many of my batchmates.

Backwater- IIM K - comes up in Jan. Do not have much idea to coment upon.

Anyways guys.

The fests that are on at this time of the year and the links

IIM I-Iris http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris/index.asp
XL- Ensemble - http://xlri.ac.in/ensemble2005/index.htm
IIM A - Confluence - http://www.iima-confluence.com/
IIM C- Intaglio - http://www.iimcal.ac.in/intaglio/

Please add any more details if u guys know and best of luck with these fests,

Regards,
Not-so-lazy-this-season-cat

[haripi2]

Great Lakes - L'Attitude 13'05 dec 11th and 12th

[curtz-imi]

IMI

Kritva - 05

Feb 8,9,10

ciao..

[lazycat]

hey guys,
Cool, but would have been much better if you could put up the website links as well
Regards

[curtz-imi]

Kritva website is still on its developemental stage ...it'll be launched some time during da first week of january

ciao..

[agoondoo]

My take on the fests.
1. IIMI - great cases.. good fest.
2. IIMK - ok. the flow of the events/ cases etc is foggy at best.
3. XLRI - Good fest.. great sponsors.. that vc was one of its kind.. transperancy in results should be more when using VC !
4. IIMA - mousehunt leaves a lotttt to desire.. BIG let down .. the kinda hype it had !.. better luck next year..

Originally Posted by curtz-imi

Kritva website is still on its developemental stage ...it'll be launched some time during da first week of january

ciao..

[lazycat]

yups..
Mousetrap turned out to be a bigggg trap ....
and more so cause they had everyone's full time for about 2-3 days..

and some new links up now...
IIM L- Manfest - www.iimlmanfest.com
And seems ISB poseidon..( pardon my spelling)..., is around the corner....

Ciao, and best of luck to all

[haripi2]

participated in almost all online games and my vote for best conducted event goes to

NITIE - mastishk

brilliant stuff..especially the IT infotech game and strategy game..highly professional..

far far ahead of other b-school games in terms of content..

way 2 go NITIE.. u guyz truly rock w.r.t ONLINE games..

[capreal26]

Poseidon 05 link went live just tonight.. watch out.

http://www.isb.edu/poseidon/

[prajanma]

hiiiii friends,
this is prajanma here.... i think that along with the info about the various b-school fest,if v can also share the info about the various events like paper presentations in these b-schools, it would be really helpful...
so in future if nyone has ny info regarding these kinda events plz post it on this forum