Spring Pong
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The Spring Pong Tournament operates by an auction system where non-players act as managers, bidding for players and forming teams. Each team contains at least 5 players along with extras, with a total of around 8 teams. Auctioning is point based, factoring in the rankings of the players.
All teams play in a league, with the top four teams entering playoffs. The auction process starts within the first week of the Spring semester, and matches start by the second week. These continue for just over a month, with games conducted over 5 weekends.
The 'Best Player of the Tournament' award is given to the player winning the greatest number of sets. Other awards such as 'Best Shot', 'Best Block', 'Best Rally', 'Best Doubles Pair', and 'Emerging Player of the Tournament' are given by popular choice.
The rulebook for Spring Pong 2024 can be found here.

Winners

Year Champion First Runners-Up Second Runners-Up
2023 The Ball Smashers
Captain - B Srisindhu
Manager - Rohan Roy
IISERK Survivors
Captain - Sauratej Sengupta
Manager - Soumyendu
The UnderBats & Table Titans
Captain - Kalyan J Kalita, Sayan Ghosh
Manager - Priyanshu Garai, Sagnik Das; Utsho Biswas
2022 The Invincible Penguins
Captain - Bapan Saha
Managers - Rahul Samanta, Kushagra Advani
Emerging Phoenix
Captain - Soumyendu
Managers - Aditi Sinha, Diana Denzil Fernandez
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