MAK holds ‘MAK Champions Trophy 2018 –Season 2’ Volley Ball & Throw Ball Tournament
Kuwait: Mogaveers Association, Affiliated to Indian embassy Kuwait, is the community welfare association of non-resident Mogaveeras, based in Kuwait. For the second time, MAK organized National level Volleyball & Throw Ball Tournament under the title of “MAK Champion Trophy 2018“ on 25th February 2018. The tournament was held at Qadisiya Sports Club, Hawally, Kuwait.
The tournament coincided with the National day of Kuwait celebration. The weather was pleasant, the participants & the MAK members were all geared up for the tournament.
The day-long tournament commenced at 7.30 am with a grand opening ceremony. On behalf of MAK Management Committee Poonam Mendon, the General Secretary of MAK welcomed all the distinguished guests, participating teams, MAK Management Committee, MAK members and all the sports enthusiasts.
The Chief Guest of the day was Nancy D’Souza, Manager & coach of Team Q8 Steel birds. She’s been working in Kuwait Airways for 27 years. The Coach & founder of Team Q8 Steel birds and has been actively participating in all the matches in spite of her busy schedules & encourages all the young players.
The guest of Honour for the day was Wilson D’Souza- President Tulkoota, Kuwait, Madhu Raveendran-Manager Boubyan Co & Roshan Quadras Ex-president of Pangala Association Kuwait. All the guests were presented with a floral bouquet as a mark of respect. This was followed by the National anthem of Kuwait and India. The guests conveyed their best wishes and good luck to the participating teams and organizers.
Ramesh Kidiyoor, President of MAK in his speech welcomed the gathering and stressed the importance of playing with true sportsman spirit and conveyed his best wishes to all the participating teams.
The guest along with the president of MAK Ramesh Kidiyoor inaugurated the tournament by cutting the ribbon & releasing the ball.
A total of 7 Volleyball teams and 5 Throwball teams participated and fought for the coveted trophy and cash rewards.
The participating VolleyBall Teams are as follows:
Al Ghanim Security
Al Sayer Toyota
Boubyan Strikers
Kunjal Friends
KSAC-A
KSAC-B
Nepal Team
The participating Throw Ball Teams are as below
STARZ
Blazing Warriors
Dragon Queens
Q8 Steel Birds
IDAK
The volleyball inaugural first-round match started between Team AL Ghanim Security & Boubyan Strikers & the first round of throw ball inaugural match was between Team Blazing Warriors & Team Dragon Queens. The teams played with full enthusiasm and viewers enjoyed and experienced the spectacular show. As the day progressed matches kept rolling one after another.
The Sponsorers of the event were Badar al Samaa & Design Guru. The referees for the day were Alexander Mathew & Suresh Yerumbu Shivappa.
The scorers for Throw Ball Team were Geetha Suvarna & Nithin Suvarna.
The scorers for Volleyball team were Kishore Kotian & Rakshith Suvarna.
The announcements were done by Girish Mehta & Purandara Manchi.
Sumptuous Breakfast, Lunch & snacks were provided by Royal Star Caterers.
Beautiful moments of the day were captured by the MAK photographers Paresh Karkera & Kiran Kumar
Winners
The Volley Ball ended with a finale of Final matches between Team Al Sayer Toyota & Team Boubyan Strikers. After a tough Battle between the two strong teams, Team Al Sayer Toyota bagged the Winners Trophy & Team Boubyan Strikers were declared the First Runner-up. The second runners-up trophy was won by Al Ghanim Security. MAK Player of the tournament for Volley Ball was secured by Rakesh Sekhar E of Team Al Sayer Toyota.
On the other hand, throw ball tournament ended with League matches. Team Dragon Queens defeated the opponents and grabbed the Winners trophy. 1st Runners-up was won by team Blazing Warriors and Team Starz stood up as the 2nd Runners. MAK Player of the tournament for throwball was secured by Merlyn Pereira from team Dragon Queens.
Prize distribution ceremony
The following distinguished guests graced the prize distribution ceremony Sathish Chandra Shetty -Owner Oriental International General Trading & Contracting Co. Sudhakar Shetty-Prominent Indian NRI in Kuwait, Elias Sanctis- Prominent Indian NRI in Kuwait, Raghu Poojary -President Billava Sangha, Hussein Sulaiman Ali Haider Ali- Assistant Manager Boubyan Strikers, Shan- Owner Design Guru. As a token of respect, all the guests were presented with a floral Bouquet.
The guest along with MAK management committee awarded the trophies and medals to winners, runners-up team & the individual achievers.
A Raffle Draw was conducted by MAK & the winners are as below:
1st Prize: Ahana Vikyath
2nd Prize: Promod Kumar
3rd Prize: Ahana Vikyath
The 10 consolation prize winners were Santhosh, Peter, Prathana, Prashanth Boloor, Jathin, P.K. Raju, Ahana Vikyath, Shikha S Amin, Dinesh Salian & Briana D’Souza.
In her vote of Thanks, Poonam Mendon thanked each and everyone who was responsible for the success of the tournament, Participants, sponsor’s, organizers, MAK Volunteers, MAK management Committee & Executive Committee. Finally, a special thanks was given to the Management & Staff of Qadsiya Sports Club for the awesome venue.