IIT Tirupati’s  first inter-disciplinary sports tournament was flagged off recently. The tournament, will have the four engineering disciplines (Civil, Computer science, Electrical and Mechanical) competing against each other in a series of games.

The tournament, which started off with volleyball matches on Monday (29.02.2016) has been scheduled for over a month considering the exams and other academic activities which were also planned around the same time.

IIT Madras, the mentor of IIT Tirupati, in known to conduct sports competitions among hostels too. Taking into consideration the fact that there aren’t multiple hostels at present in IIT Tirupati, it was decided to conduct the tournament among the engineering branches.

This tournament has primarily kick-started the sports activities at IIT Tirupati. Also, it will give the institute a chance to select players for the next

The inter-disciplinary tournament started with Volleyball, followed by  Cricket over the weekend. Various other games like Football, Kho-Kho, Badminton, Basketball and indoor games are also part of this event. The tournament will end with a grand Sports Day sometime in the first week of April.

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