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The Corporate Games: Promoting Health & Fitness, Team Building & Networking

The Corporate Games 2019 season finally came to an end in style after nine months of fun and entertaining games with the introduction of two new games. Darts and Three-legged race made their introduction in the final day of the season.

Corporate Games happen every first Sunday of the month at Mandela National Stadium. However, the final games happened on 13th October 2019 (the second Sunday) at Kyambogo University Cricket Oval after being invited by Kyambogo University to extend the experience of the games to the students.

According to the Chairman of the Corporate Games, Ian Rumanyika,  it has been a wonderful nine months for the Corporate Games since they kicked off on 3rd February 2019.

“From attaining the best media partners in the country to continuously getting more companies registering for the Games in almost every outing not forgetting the introduction of new fun and interesting games outing after another,” Rumanyika said, adding:  “The biggest win was UMC Victoria Hospitals giving medical insurance to all the Corporates on the pitch, all employees play with comfort.”

Next media – (Sanyuka TV, NBS TV) UBC TV, Kwese TV, Red Pepper and Node Group the PR agency that manages the PR and Marketing of the games have been the Media Partners for the 2019 season.

Chess is part of Corporate Games

“… they provided the participating companies enough media mileage. Talking about continuous growth of the games, Corporate Games attracted the sponsorship of NEC Uzima water as the games’ official water partners in the 7th outing,” Rumanyika said.

He added that all this is  happened because of the uniqueness of the game’s leadership.

“It’s also important to note that Corporate Games has the most entertaining unique games for corporate and here is a list of the games that companies took part in the 2019 season; Soccer, Netball, Basketball, Volleyball, Cycling, Woodball, Chess, Athletics, Tag of war, sack race, paint ball shooting, swimming, darts and the three legged race that was introduced in the 9th and final outing of the season,” he explained.

Sack racing

Fiduga Limited were the overall champions of the three-legged race beating SCD Darling and Uganda National Meteorological Authority (UNMA) who came second and third respectively.

Mandela National Stadium clinched the 4th position just above Joint medical Stores who were the fifth.

Royal Vanzanteen came 7th just below new comers Rapid Advisory who managed to grab the 6th spot.

Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), Orion Transformers, Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI) finished 8th, 9th and 10th respectively.

In sack racing, Ministry of Finance finished second above Mandela National Stadium who booked themselves the third  spot in both the men and women’s sack race.

One of the games that has been played in all the outings is football. Some of the results of the soccer played in the last outing are,

Ministry of Finance 4-0 Mandela National Stadium

Uganda Industrial Research Institute 1-3 Mengo Hospital

Next Media 0-3 Uganda National Bureau of Standards

SCD Darling 2-0 Royal Vanzanten

UMC Victoria University 1-1 Oryx Energies

EFC Uganda Ltd 1-3 Ministry Of Science & Technology

Mandela National Stadium 0-0 Mengo Hospital

Ministry Of Finance 0-0 Uganda National Bureau Of Standrads

Uganda Industrial Research Institute 1-1 Royal Vanzanten

Next Media 0-3 Uganda Baati

Umc Victoria Hospital 0-4 Orion Transformers

Efc Uganda Ltd 3-5 Uganda National Meteorogical Authority

Mengo Hospital 2-2 Uganda National Bureau Of Standards

Mandela 1-3 Royal Vanzanten

Ministry Of Finance 0-0 Uganda Baati

Uganda Industrial Research Institute 0-1 Scd Darling

Next Media 0-1 Joint Medical Stores

Fiduga 0-0 Orion Transformers

Uganda Baati 2-2 Joint Medical Stores

Fiduga 0-1 Uganda National Meteorogical Authority

Ministry Of Science & Tech  0-1 Orion Transformers

Oryx Energies 1-4 Uganda National Meteorological Authority

SCD Darling 1-0 Joint Medical Stores.

“The 2019 season will officially be wrapped up with an Awards Dinner on the 29th November 2019 at Royal suites Hotel (an invite only event) where different companies will be awarded for their excellent performance in different areas throughout the 2019 season,” Rumanyika revealed.

Football is always on the menu

He added that the Corporate Games 2020 season shall kick off on the 2nd February 2020 starting with the Corporate Run as a curtain raiser of the season, with an outing every first Sunday of each month.

“All games shall be played per the events calendar which shall be provided whereas soccer will be continuous through every outing,” he said, adding: “The outings provide an excellent platform for any company to showcase & promote their products and services to over 2,000 participating corporate staff in addition to the general public that access the facility at no cost.”

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