AIMA-Infosys B-Games

AIMA-Infosys B-Games.. what to say.. a nightmare for me and my team. Being the last years national champions IIFM was having quite a lot of expectations from us. And we failed and failed in the prelims. Since we missed the regional competition at Indore and New Delhi, due to our exams we had to participate at Coimbatore in a non descript (never heard before) engineering college, named Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology. Somehow we managed to reach there and got to know that accomodation has been arranged in a Aishwarya hotel and we have to adjust in one room. Imagin four ppl in one room. The visitors registers gave us a glimpse of participants as many participants were living in the same hotel. the only name we have heard was of IIM K, the other names were quite alien to us. When we reached SKCET the venue for the competition, we were pleasantly surprised by the infra of the college and got to know in the briefing that 57 teams are participating from Tamilnadu and nearby states. Though only 9-10 institutes were participating, almost each institute in that regions has sent 4-7 teams for the competition. Probably IIM K, XIM B, KIAMS, IIFM were the only institutes with one team. When the competition started they divided all the teams into a group of 7-8 and we had 8 teams and as per our knowledge based upon the results of the games played a couple of days ago, 2 teams were to qualify from each group. After two days of stress and labour we finished second in our group, but before that we got the news that only one team is going to be in the next round so we were out of the race along with IIM K, XIMB, KIAMS and many others. We could not digest our failure.. but accepted gracefully untill Mr. Natrajan asked for the feedback and some startling facts came out…

• The gazettes which describe the market situations in the simulation games were same, as earlier distributed for other participants a couple of days earlier.
• Almost all the local team have before hand knowledge of scenarios to be given in the game.
• They told us even with the given scenario, one cannot do anything with the game… what can i say?
• the local team (especially the host team) was having advantage of knowledge of all the gazettes and scenario and even though most of them 5 out of 7 lost but two managed to win.

I am still wondering what happened to AIMA.. how could they make such mistakes..