Recently i took part in an event called Last man standing at SIBM pune...... I was shortlisted for the event from a hundred entires......... They were 17 of us in the final shortlist and we had to fight it out among ourselves to be the " Last Man Standing"........
Before i go ahead, let me tell u what this event is................. Its a three day event and as the organizers called "55 hours of continous torture ".......... It consits of 15 events, both formal and informal, and the guy with the maximum number of points at the end of three days was declared the winner.....
On the day of the event only 17 of us had turned up........ People were there from various colleges such as NMIMS, Great Lakes, SIBM, SCMHRD, Sydenam etc...... Now let us take each day at a time......
Day 1 :
It started off with an event called Radio Play, where two ppl had to talk over the radio for 5 min in a funny situation.......... I was a mud wrestler confessing to a priest over the crimes that i had done....... It got very vulgar but it was good fun.......
The next event was a press brief and questions thrown at u............ This was ok, wasnt really that intresting......
At the end of these two rounds .......... two ppl were elliminated both of which were hot babes from MICA and SCMHRD :( ........ I thought my luck had begun to run out then itself ;)
The next event was a really nice event called Euroclubs....... where u were a manager with some of money and u had to bid for players..... It involved a great deal of stratergy......
At the end of this we were asked to design a condom ad for the small man ( hope u get what i mean :)) ...... The best part was there was a hot girl from SIBM on the jury and trying to explain the ad to her got a lil intresting :) ............
We then had a corporate finance case study and considering my knowledge in fin u can guess urself on how well it went.......
We went back to our hostel thinking that it was the end of the day....... Thinking we might get some sleep after a hard days work .............. Our wish was shortlived as they came knocking at our door at 3 am in the morning ............. We just had two hours of sleep.......
We were given a fairy tale at 3am and we were asked to analyse it and find out the management fundas in it.............. MBA fart back to the rescue.... :)
At 5 am in the morning we were asked to come ready to do some physical excercises......... It involved doing 15 pushups and then going up and down 5 stairs with a carton containing 12 bottles of water............I did the whole excercise in flat two min after which i felt so exhausted that i thought that i would never get up............
That brought us to the end of day 1............ At the end of which two ppl withdrew from the event citing inablity to cope up with the pressure.............
the last man standing gang................................
Day 2 :
Day 2 started with a set of informal events such as SuDuKo , Crystal Maze , Sock matching and Lemon and spoon races.........
We then had to a fashion show for the entire SIBM............. The theme was south indian........ The audience made fun of us made us to dance and what not........... it was good fun..........
We then had a business quiz at which i luckily fared well..............
At the end of this another 5 of them were elliminated and for the final four rounds we had just 6 of us........
We then had a every nice event in which we had to design the cricket world cup trophy...... The best part was that we had to make a real live trophy with thermcol, fevicol, paper cutter......
We then had to sell the trophy to the ICC.............
My world cup trophy
Might look a lil shabby ..... But i sold it well :) ................
After which we went back to our rooms, trying to get some sleep....
At 1 am we were given a huge case study and asked to analyse it and submit it by 5 am........
After trying to mix some sleep and do the case.......... At 5 am we get shock when they said that they were just mocking us and the case is not going to be there for evaluvation....... The 6 of us felt like tearing our hair apart...........
The day still dint end when we were asked to run the pune marathon............ We had to then run three km....... after which we were allowed to sleep for an hour .............
Day 3:
Day 3 had just three formal events which were a HR case where u had to take a stand
The second was a tuncoat where u had to argue about the benifits of oragnized retail or Walmart......
The third one again was a collosal case study where u had to suggest on how a company called verbatium can beat a market leader 3M.......
To skip all the events, read from here :) .....................
We then waited for the results and for my dissapointment i did not win................After three days fo hard work they had just one prize of 40k and i came second................. i lost by 5 marks..........
From that day onwards i have been known as second last man standing :)
All and a all a great event and i had great fun taking part in it.........................
