PVR BluO, India's largest bowling center today announced its biggest corporate bowling tournament. In its second edition, "Lufthansa Pin Strike" has employees representing around 80 corporates from Delhi & NCR who will be competing in the tournament. The tournament will spread over 5 weeks and will be held on every Thursday evening. At the end of 4 weeks the top 12 teams will compete for the finals on April 8th, 2010.
Each corporate team has 4 members. The grand prize of the tournament is four return tickets to Europe. A few participating names include PepsiCo, Make My Trip, Siemens, Deutsche Bank, BMW etc.
On this ocassion, Mr. Gautam Dutta, CEO, BluO said, "Bowling is on its way to becoming a rage in the country and has come to be seen and adopted as a lifestyle sport by one and all. The sport is an easy and fun way to work out and bowling is the new religion which brings together people across barriers of geography, gender and age. We are absolutely delighted to be playing a catalyst role in this innovative and memorable initiative."
"He further added, This tournament is a perfect way to funnel out work stress and we urge the corporates to participate whole heartedly in the tournament and happy to receive an overwhelming response from Indian corporate sector last year and this time we are expecting a bigger response."
In 2009, over 50 teams from corporates like Airtel, Virgin Mobile, ABN Amro, Punj Llyod, ESPN and more participated in the tournament. This year each team member will receive a kit bag full of goodies. They will be provided bowling equipment namely shoes and bowling balls and will play a minimum of 8 games of bowling.