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A new generation game that is fun and exciting

Staff Reporter

— Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

AN EXPERIENCE: Participants arriving at the Zapak Gaming League in Bangalore on Sunday.

BANGALORE: Kushal Tallam emerged the champion of the city finals of Paddlepop Gaming League held here at St. John’s Auditorium on Sunday.

The new generation competition attracted nearly 6,000 children from the city who participated online during summer holidays and the top 100 players were selected for the city finals.

The finalists battled it out on “EA Cricket 07,” a cricket simulation game, and the interactive experience was both fun and exciting.

The choices and consequences resembled real life situations and the players had to make quick decisions. There were three rounds in the city finals and 20 top scorers vied for the crown.

First round

In the first round, the new generation “Dhonis”, “Tendulkars” and “Virus” scored at a brisk pace and their average seemed to be better than of an Afridi’s or a Jayasuriya’s.

Surprisingly, the girls were hitting all the fours and sixes and the boys were getting out. Surabhi R. Kaur scored 161 runs in 10 overs at an impressive average of 16.1 runs per over and she surely seemed to have put her skills together.

However, the boys outscored the girls in the second round and reached the final round.

In the final round, all players were equal and had an equal chance to win. The final was interesting and fun and even the spectators seemed to have crossed that small border between the real world and the virtual world. In the end, Kushal Tallam was crowned the Bangalore Paddlepop Gaming League champion.

He won a gaming console among other prizes. Chandan P. was the first runner-up, while Abhijit G. came third. The competition will now move to Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata and it will also be held in Mumbai and New Delhi. The competition is organised in association with Zapak Kids, while The Hindu-Young World is the media partner.

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