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Vritaanta Volume 1 Issue 4

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Zeitgeist<br />

25<br />

in Badminton, and agility checks from Swimming.<br />

Also introducing, for the first time at a B-School<br />

fest in recent times, a new addition to traditional<br />

sports: the Skill Challenge. A generation of<br />

youngsters have grown up seeing Ronaldinho<br />

dazzle people with magical footwork and Bryant<br />

mesmerise the crowd with amazing crossovers.<br />

Slam Dunk competitions in All-Star weekends<br />

and Crossbar challenges in fan-boy videos have<br />

become constants on the internet for inspirationmongering<br />

video-hunters.<br />

challenges ranging from a<br />

3-pointer competition in<br />

basketball to cross-bar<br />

challenges in football.<br />

With its wide range of challenges<br />

and contests, Gravitas 2015 asked one<br />

simple question of every participant… Do you<br />

have it in you to be the best?<br />

This year, SIBM Pune took Transcend and its<br />

sports management to a new level on January<br />

22, 23, 24. Closely followed by the Symbiosis<br />

Premier League, the last sporting bout of the<br />

year, this new and exciting addition to SIBM<br />

Pune’s family of events made a magnificently<br />

successful introduction to a legacy that will sustain<br />

for years to come.<br />

As Transcend 2015 celebrated the 25th year of<br />

its existence, Gravitas was proudly at its first.<br />

With the Skill Challenge, Gravitas offered the opportunity<br />

to display a truly unique skill set, with<br />

Beauty of Colours;<br />

A Lakshadwip evening<br />

—Himadri Shekhar Das (MBA I HR)<br />

February 2015

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