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Bombay Ad Club calls for entries for annual M.AD Quiz
The M.AD Quiz 2003 is being held on December 12, and the last date for sending in entries for this year’s event is December 5
Announcing the date for the annual M.AD Quiz (the Marketing and Advertising Quiz), the Advertising Club Bombay has invited ‘quizzically inclined' advertising and marketing professionals in the country to send in their entries for participation in this year's event. The M.AD Quiz 2003 is being held on December 12, at the City Studio, Kamala Mills Compound, Lower Parel, Mumbai, and the last date for sending in entries for this year's quiz is December 5.
The M.AD Quiz is one of the most prestigious events on the Bombay Ad Club calendar, and has enjoyed significant industry participation over the years. (For the record, the Ad Club's annual Ad Quiz was re-branded as the M.AD Quiz last year.) Last year's M.AD Quiz, for instance, was attended by more than 300 marketing and advertising professionals, and 51 teams contested the event at the preliminary stage, with six teams (JWT India, Johnson & Johnson, Madison Communications, Network Advertising, O&M India and WPP Media) finally testing their wits for the coveted M.AD trophy. Incidentally, last year's winning team was from WPP Media, with the team from JWT coming in second on account of a slender two-point deficit.
According to the official release from the Bombay Ad Club, the entry fee for this year's event has been fixed at Rs 3,000 per team (each team consisting of two members). Organisations are free to send in more than one entry/team. The communiqué further states that the winning team would carry away "a booty of attractive cash awards and various other prizes". (To serve as an indicator, last year, Sundar Raman and Rajiv Gopinath of WPP Media pocketed, among other things, a vacation to Casablanca, courtesy SOTC!)
Same as last year, ex-adman and popular quizmaster Derek O'Brien will host this year's quiz - which has been created around the theme of ‘Instant Fame'. Entry forms for the quiz will be available at the Ad Club Secretariat through the week, and enquiries can be made at 022-23894091 and adclub@vsnl.com. © 2003 agencyfaqs!