The highly-anticipated football tournament dubbed “King of Studies II” is set for staging this Saturday alongside the newly-constructed Behavioural Sciences Building on the University of Guyana Campus at Turkeyen.
Organiser and founder of the tournament, Jafar Gibbons
Created with the specific intention of encouraging student interaction and bringing people together at the University, teams participating in this tournament comprise members drawn from various faculties, as opposed to what normally obtains at universities (inter-faculty sports).
Organiser and founder of the tournament, Jafar Gibbons, who is also the student body president, is an avid lover of sports and it is his main goal to unify everyone on campus through sports. Gibbons stated that as compared to the first edition which was a major success, the second edition will see more lucrative prizes up for grabs. Gibbons noted that what he was looking to achieve is based on the founding principle of integration, wherefore teams are created from a mixture of persons, as opposed to persons playing at a faculty level. The underlying theme on which the tournament is based is giving back and impacting the university in a positive way.
The matches will be played in two five-minute halves and in a round-robin style; after which the knockout stage, comprising two semi-final games and the final game, would be staged. Because this tournament is a one-day affair, all prizes won would be handed over on the day of its staging.
Team Hard Knocks, who won the first edition, will be aiming to keep its winning streak alive and be crowned two-time champions of this tournament, which facilitates 10 teams and accommodates as many as 100 students.
This year’s victorious team are set to walk away with a top prize of $100,000 while the runners-up would earn $50,000 and the third-place team $25,000.
The champion team would be obliged to contribute 10 per cent of their winnings towards a project members choose to impact the university.
