Gags apart, The Pinnacle is proud to report that remarkably prestigious institutes, such as AKU, IBA, Sindh Medical University, Iqra, FAST and SZABIST were amongst the lot that sent delegations to participate in the different sporting categories held over the three days of the event. These categories included Futsal, Cricket, Basketball, Chess, Volleyball, Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis and Throwball. Experienced Match Officials were hired from Karsaz so as to ensure that the sanctity of the event was not violated and that no team would raise the issue of bias towards the host teams. When the day arrived, and the teams started showing up for the events, they were given a short tour of the campus and after a little ado, taken straight to action. Different matches took place over several venues which lay over the entire university. From Volleyball outside the Annexe building to Throwball in the Tennis Court, all matches continued simultaneously without any notable hitches, all thanks to the remarkable scheduling. The matches even managed to attract audiences with ample supply of exciting events. In Futsal, AKU came from two goals down at half time to win 5-3 against Textile Institute of Pakistan. The IBA Throwball team showed they were above the competition by going through the entire tourney undefeated! The biggest highlight, however, was none other than the Basketball tourney’s final between Iqra and PNEC itself. With seconds to go on the clock and Iqra leading by a point, a moment of pure magic from Shehryar (IV -WE) bagged the winning points for Team PNEC. With the ball in his own D, and three opponent players bearing down on him, Shehryar let loose with an absolute stunner: a full-court shot which went swishing through the bucket, leaving the players shellshocked, and the crowd in awe! While the days of the Olympiad were full of sporting thrill and competitive buzz, night -time was where the party was at. The PNEC-NUST Olympiad featured three social events: a laugh-riot Comedy Night, a springwelcoming Basant, and a Strings concert (don’t really need adjectives there now, do we?) On the sixth, LOL Waalay, a troupe of improvisational comedians, performed in the Jauhar Auditorium, coming up with jokes that were both raunchy and classy at the same time. Featuring our very own PNEC passouts, Akbar and Kumail, the performers also made a lot of inside jokes, to which the PNECian segment of the audience responded with roars of laughter that could be heard all the way from the gate. Some of the more memorable jokes included a song that made fun of a certain hostelite known as barfi, or the ‘things that you can say about PNEC but not about your girlfriend’. Next up was Basant, which was another memorable event with the black night -sky lit up with an array of lights and full of dozens of paper-sharks looking for prey. Seasoned kite-flyers took to the field and dueled with a flurry of sweeps, feeding the strings and then loosening them with lethal effect for their opponents. The playlist for the event was also tailored for the occasion as the pilots now turned their attention to dancing, with the focus remaining on bhangra and other desi moves.
The Pinnacle - May 2013
9