Day 2 events at the Acumen 2006 East Zone began on Saturday, September 9 2006 post-noon with star host Harsha Bhogle introducing the participating business schools and sponsors.

The debate semifinal rounds were judged by Mr Amit Roy, Vice PResident HR, Hindalco, Polay Moitra of Business Today and Prof Biju Paul Abraham and Prof Arojit Sen of IIM Calcutta. Debating on whether the Sensex was a misleading indicator of the Indian economy, IISWBM beat VGSOM-IIT Kharagpur to reach the East Zone finals.

Meanwhile, the second Debate semi-final was fought between IIM-C and Institute of Business Management, Kolkata on whether the Indian consumer was price obsessed. IIM-C won, reaching the finals to face IISWBM.

At that point, Harsha Bhogle took over the stage again to conduct the B-school Quiz finals. IIM Calcutta consolidated its position from the beginning, so that at the end of round 4 IIM-C had 45 points, VGSOM-IIT Kharagpur had 25 points and Army Institute of Management and Eastern Institue of Management railed at 20 and 10 points respectively.