A yet another college tourney review which I have decided to write upon. 

Before I tell you about the tourney, I would like to tell you that gaming has indeed reached some depp parts of India. Sidhant College of engineering where this tourney was conducted is located 20-30 kms from Pune in the Talegaon – Dehuroad area. Not much transportation facility is available to reach there but if one is really desperate to play a tourney in this college, one can catch a train, then a bus and then maybe get a lift from someone.  One wonders as to when one will reach the place or maybe even this thought can come up – ‘Am I really pushing myself so far for CS?’ , that’s what I did.

Being in a rural area, we still had a ‘gaming event’ in such a place. Ok, if anyone reading from the college reading this, I am not offending you but just describing the location of the college and in spite of that we had a gaming event means that – yeah, gaming is reaching places.

I wouldn’t describe the tourney as a perfect college tourney but c’mon, at least we had gaming in a remote place like this. The tourney was a 4 on 4 structured competitions where most of the teams which participated where in house students forming teams and playing.

Due to less clans registering, the tourney started late with only the first round completing on the first day and the second round getting pushed to the second day.

The setup was decent which I can call playable. The college made some extra efforts to keep the event going by bringing in generators for covering the regular power cuts. Credit should be given as they could have called the event off but they decided to keep the show running.

The second day saw the outcome of the tourney as the team from MITR i.e. ‘Mulshi Institute of Technology and Research (MITR)’ beat the in house team to take away the 3k first prize. The in house team which was the runner up got 1.5k prize money.

Although we had a gaming event but some rules weren’t right. We had Untitled – the practice map being played as one of the maps in the initial rounds and other maps included dust2 and dust. C’mon, after making the event running, we wouldn’t want such mistakes to be done by organizers. The finals were in de_dust where the MITR beat the locals 16-12.
The good thing was that gaming happened here but also we would want that it happens according to certain standards that are prevalent everywhere.

Would like to thank Yash ‘Max’ Sarda , Anupal ‘wishmaster’ Chaterjee , Sagar ‘Ninja’ Patil and  Mukeh 'Mack' Patil for their inputs.

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