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 Monopoly Championship final in Chennai
 Monopoly,
the world famous board game that offers you all the thrills of buying and
selling properties, and gives an opportunity to learn the tricks of the trade
with play money and destinations. can now, for real, take you to Japan!
Funskool,
India's most popular toy maker brings the highly interactive and exciting
Monopoly Championship to India which will be a lead up, for the National Winner,
to the World Monopoly Championship 2004 to be held in Tokyo, Japan. After
enjoying phenomenal success in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai, the Funskool All
India Monopoly Championship 2004 is all set to be played on September 18, in
Chennai, with the finals among the winner ftom each city also scheduled on the
same day.
Raphael Kuriyan, Chief
Executive Officer, Funskool India Ltd. said, "We are happy that Monopoly -
the most well-known board game enjoyed world over - will now see a national
level competition that will instill real business sense into the young minds
which is so very important for tomorrow's generation. The immense popularity of
the almost 70-year old Monopoly game can be judged by the fact that over 250
million game sets have been sold worldwide! Funskool is proud to bring to India
the Monopoly Championship for the players across Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and
Chennai. I welcome all the participants and wish them the very best".
David Selvaraj, Marketing
Manager, Funskool India Ltd., said, "Monopoly game, enjoyed by young and
adults alike, was introduced in India by Funskool in 1995 and instantly became
the most popular and best selling board game of all times. The game is just like
life. There are no hard and fast rules for success but there are principles that
improve your chance of succeeding. Monopoly, in fact, teaches you how to trade,
what are the advantages of building a house, paying taxes and also how to enjoy
the power of buying and selling. And what better way could there be than
introducing the Monopoly championship to the school children who are supposed to
shape tomorrow's India?"
Funskool had invited 45 reputed
schools from Chennai and also made available the entry forms at 25 well-known
toy shops in the city. The last date to file the entry was September 6.
The Chennai leg of the Funskool
All India Monopoly Championship 2004 will be held at The Ispahani Centre,
Nungambakkam, from 0900 hrs to 1800 hrs.
The format of the championship
is simple. Each city will throw up one 'Winner' after the regular elimination
rounds and the four city winners - one each from Bangalore, Delhi,
Mumbai and
Chennai - will slug it out for the ultimate honour.
The National Winner of the
Funskool All India Monopoly Championship 2004 will travel on the
all-expense-paid-trip to Tokyo, Japan, to participate in the World Monopoly
Championship besides pocketing an attractive trophy and a cheque for Rs.25,000.
While each of the city winners gets a cheque for Rs. 5,000, the three runner-ups
in each city receive gifts worth Rs 2,000, 1,500 and 1,300 respectively.
The
World Monopoly Championship, which is held every four years, will be held at the
most expensive property of Tokyo - Rooppongi Hills section. There will be 40
contenders from as many countries to give their best trading shot and pocket the
world title. All the 40 representatives from the respective countries will
arrive in Tokyo on October 7 and will explore the surroundings of the
competition arena. All of them win undertake a city tour in the afternoon and
then attend a welcome reception to be thrown for all the players and guests in
the same evening. On October 8 the preliminary rounds of the W orId Monopoly
Championship wiU begin and last all throughout the day. And on October 9 wiU
emerge the World Monopoly Champion!
The World Monopoly Champion
will walk away with a cool cash prize of $15,140.
Funskool is a joint venture
between two leaders in their own field - MRF the No.1 Tyre Company in India and
Hasbro Inc, the No.l Toy Company in the world. Funskool started its commercial
operations in the year 1988 and has state of the art manufacturing facilities at
Goa sprawling across an area of 70,000 sq. ft. and a 60,000 sq. ft. factory at
Ranipet. Funskool has a turnover of Rs. 40 crore.
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