Spornado 2009, Inter IIT Sports Meet at IIT Roorkee

Its been a privelage to bring to your notice that the management students of IIT Roorkee, have taken a seminal initiative to organize SPORNADO '09. It is a four day long sports extravaganza. Last year event SPORNADO’08, which was organized l…

Its been a privelage to bring to your notice that the management students of IIT Roorkee, have taken a seminal initiative to organize SPORNADO '09. It is a four day long sports extravaganza.

Last year event SPORNADO'08, which was organized last year by IIT Roorkee and held between IIT Roorkee and IIT Delhi, was a phenomenal success and this year will see two more IITs - IIT Kanpur and IIT Kharagpur, compete and fight for the coveted glory. This event aims to bring out the sporting spirit of the future managers. The four day long sports meet is scheduled to be held between 15th and 18th January, 2009 and will feature around ten events like Cricket, Football, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Volleyball, Basketball etc. BSNL being the title sponsors, the event is also sponsored by ESPN & other local business of Uttarakhand. The event is expected to be covered by prominent dailies, PaGaLGuY.com - The Everything of MBA, CAT 2008, GMAT, XAT, IIM - Home being our online media partner. The event will witness nearly 200 students fight it out for the coveted SPORNADO '09 trophy and is expected to have more than 1500 footfall. We anticipate publicity of the event to reach to around 10000 people. It will be held in the sprawling campus of IIT Roorkee in front of large and enthusiastic audiences of students, faculties, alumni and various corporate organizations which will make this meet a grand success.

The opening ceremony is scheduled on 15th January at 9 am in the morning and the Prize Distribution & closing ceremony at 5pm on18th evening. the ceremony is expected to be attended by Top BSNL officials, dignitaries from Government and IIT Roorkee.

DAY -1 Update:

The event was declared open by the DOSW Mr N C Goel in the inaugural ceremony today morning.

The first game to kick off was the cricket match between us and IIT-Kanpur. The match saw a brilliant innings of 48 runs by Tarun Khanna which propelled out innings to a match winning score of 140. Kanpur tried putting up a good fight in return but our indomitable bowlers paved the way for a handsome 65 run victory.
IIT-Delhi defeated IIT-KGP 3-0 in the game of squash.
Lined up next were the TT matches. DOMS-IITR defeated IDMS-IIT-Delhi 4-1 to secure a place in the finals. While IIT-Kanpur won 4-3 against IIT-KGP.
In Basketball IIT-Delhi and IIT-KGP through to the finals.
The day ended with pool and snooker. DOMS-IITR defeated IIT-KGP 3-0 in pool. While IIT-Delhi defeated IIT-Kanpur 2-0 in snooker.
We want to thank all the supporters, some of whom had missed their classes to come and cheer for DOMS .

DAY-2 schedule (16th jan):
10:00hrs - 12:30hrs
Lawn Tennis
IIT R vs IIT K
LT Courts
Lawn Tennis
IIT D vs IIT KGP
LT Courts
12:00hrs - 14:00hrs
Pool
IIT K vs IIT D
UG Club
Snooker
IIT R vs IIT KGP
UG Club
14:30hrs - 18:00hrs
Badminton
IIT R vs IIT K
Badminton Courts
Cricket
IIT D vs IIT KGP
Cricket Main Ground
18:00hrs - 21:00hrs
Badminton
IIT D vs IIT KGP
Badminton Courts
18:30hrs - 20:00hrs
Football
IIT R vs IIT K
Football Ground
19:30hrs - 21:00hrs
Pool
IIT K vs IIT D
UG Club
Snooker
IIT R vs IIT KGP
UG Club

DAY-3 (17th jan)Schedule:

09:00hrs - 12:30hrs
Squash
IIT R vs IIT K
Squash Courts
10:00hrs - 11:30hrs
Football
IIT D vs IIT KGP
Football Ground
11:30hrs - 12:15hrs
Basketball Girls
IIT K vs IIT D
BB Courts
12:15hrs - 13:00hrs
Basketball Girls
IIT R vs IIT KGP
BB Courts
13:30hrs - 17:30hrs
Cricket
Final
Cricket Main Ground
LT, TT, Squash, Badminton
Final
Sports Complex
17:00hrs - 21:00hrs
Pool & Snooker
Final
UG Club
LT, TT, Squash, Badminton
Final
Sports Complex

Hi...ALI and team,
Is squash and pool/snooker/billiards facillities available for students in normal times?
I would love coming to IITR if these sports are available