The Final Round of the Fall 2016 Universal Case Competition

Case Competition Judges

We started early in the morning with registration opened before eight in the morning. Surprisingly, when I arrived at about five minutes before the hour, there were already participants, coaches and officials signing in. And to my expectations the organizing committee and volunteers were already on hand to welcome the early arrivals. This semester's organizing committee was really self driven and unbelievably task oriented. So literally, all I needed to do was a walk about. One of the first thing I did was to make sure that the rooms were set for presentations. Also, to make sure that the staff lounge were ready for breakfast. Earlier, I have bought a dozen of donuts and another dozen of muffins from Tim Hortons for that purpose.

Getting Pointers from Team Coach

It was amazingly easy to work with this semester's organizing committee. They had every aspect of the case competition well planned out and managed the event with excellent team work. Their time management was also immaculate. I have to give them full credit for that. In fact, the event was so well planned that we actually completed all the two rounds of the nine team presentations without a problem. One team did not show up and was disqualified. But we did everything else right on time. Managing thirty exciting students all dressed in their finest business attire was a task in itself. And able to complete the record participation case competition final rounds within four hours is commendable.

Two Members of Triple Threat

This semester's case competition organizing committee has set a tough precedent for future committees to follow. The Fall 2016 Universal Case Competition ended today with a tremendous success. We had a total of twenty one teams participating which was a record. And all the twenty one teams went through the first round on three different days. Their presentations were officiated by the eight faculty members of Fraser International College and they helped selected the final ten teams for today's final round competing teams. In the final rounds, we invited two faculty members of Fraser International College to pair with two alumnus as case competition judges.

One of the three Top Speaker

The winning team for this semester's Universal Case Competition is Triple Threat, made up of three first semester international students from Bangladesh and India that was coached by a Simon Fraser University Communications student from Vietnam. Whereas the top three top speakers were two Bangladeshi students and one from China. After the certificate presentation and award ceremony, the attendees were feted to a specially catered Malaysian buffet, sponsored by the college. During the lunch buffet, the participants get to mingle and network with the officials, the organizers, volunteers, and with other participants.