Mumbai, 21st May 2011: Topps India Sports & Entertainment Company Pvt Ltd, the world leader in sports and entertainment products targeted at kids and the owner of the brand Cricket Attax – the official trading card game of IPL, today completed the Mumbai leg of the CricketAttax championship. For Mann Joshi who won the competition finals played at the Wankhede stadium, moments before the clash between the Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals, it was a chance of a life time and he could not help radiating the excitement of being crowned the Mumbai CricketAttax champion. The icing on the cake was him being awarded the trophy by David Jacobs one of his home team superstars.
After a rigorous round of matches all around the city, four won their way through to reach Landmark, Phoenix Mills, Mumbai for the semi finals. The semi finalists seemed to enjoy every moment of competing in presence of an engrossed spectators, store staff and their parents. The two finalists Mann Joshi and Varun were then escorted in style to battleground zero, Wankhede stadium, where they battled against each other to take away the much anticipated city champion title. It was a fierce battle which the two finalists fought to reach this milestone.
On the occasion of the success of the championship, Mr. Sanjeev Katyal, Head of India operations of Topps said, “I am extremely happy for Mann Joshi who has demonstrated exuberant skills and wit in winning the Mumbai leg of the championship. CricketAttax is a game about combining strategy and knowledge whilst enjoying the game. The participants at Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, & Jaipur till date have put up splendid performances and interesting matches, we hope to carry forward the energy and enthusiasm to the upcoming events. I would like to make use of the occasion to convey my best regards to the participants.”
Mr. Ashutosh Pandey, COO, Landmark said, “Landmark is an exciting destination for people of all ages including kids and young adults. We are more than a book store; since we believe we are a zone of both information and entertainment. Cricketattax, the official trading card game of IPL, was a splendid opportunity for us to provide these kids with a platform to battle out with each other in this thought-provoking game. While the game was being played all including the customers at the store and the staff had a gala time cheering the contestants.”
The CricketAttax championship is a parallel cricketing event which has been organized by the Topps all over the country with preliminary rounds happening at retail stores pan India and the finals of the competition at various IPL match venues. Cricket Attax trading card game encourages the participants to use their wit, strategizing skills and cricketing knowledge, to battle it out with their individual set of cricketing cards on a Game pitch. The game showcases cards featuring the top 200 players of the IPL T20 tournament. CricketAttax allows kids to choose their players and create a team which allows them to compete with others.
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