Rugby: Grants win at Tag Tournament

Grants Advertising led by Sathya Premaratne lifted the brand new ‘Four A’s’ trophy, scoring a hard fought 2/1 win over Leo Burnett Solutions in the Final of the Inaugural Inter-Ad Agencies Tag Rugby Challenge  2015, organised by the Accredited  Advertising Agencies Association  (Four A’s) concluded under lights, at Havelock Park.

14 Accredited Advertising Firms participated and at the completion of the league stage (18 matches), the two top teams of the four groups, namely, Lowe LDB and Triad from Group ‘A’; Media Factory and Group M Media ‘A’ from Group ‘B’; Grants Advertising and Leo Burnett from Group ‘C’ and Sarva Integrated and Saatchi & Saatchi from Group ‘D’ advanced to the quarter-finals.

Grants & Leo played in the same group and their league game ended in a thrilling 1-1 draw. 

President, Accredited Advertising Agencies Association gave away the awards.

Falul Hallaj from Leo Burnett was named as the Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament. 

Chief Guest, Raynor Silva, Chairman, Asia Broadcasting Corporation, Guest of Honor, Anne Balakrishnan, Group Director, Asia Broadcasting Corporation and Dushantha Ahangama, Vice 

Quarter-finals: (1) Lowe LDB beat Group M Media ‘A’ in Extra time 3/2; (2): Grants beat Saatchi 1/0; (3): Leo Burnett beat Sarva 2/0; (4): Media Factory beat Triad 2/1.
   
Semi-finals: (1) Grants beat Lowe LDB 2/0; (2) Leo Burnett beat Media Factory 3/0.

Final: Sahil Premaratne touched down at stroke of time to give Grants Adv. A heart stopping 2/1 win over Leo Burnett.