{"id":9548,"date":"2018-03-01T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=9548"},"modified":"2018-03-01T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:10:50","slug":"cbl-season-2-karnataka-warriors-lift-the-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=9548","title":{"rendered":"CBL Season 2 – Karnataka Warriors Lift the Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"WINNER\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sponsorship Awards to Next Gen champions from cities across Tamil Nadu<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chennai, March 1, 2018:<\/strong>\u00a0Karnataka Warriors win the Celebrity Badminton League (CBL) –\u00a0 Season 2\u00a0 that took place on 25th<\/sup>\u00a0February, 2018. Speaking about the specific categories, Karnataka warriors emerged as winners in the Men\u2019s Singles, Men\u2019s Doubles and Mixed Doubles thus winning the overall trophy. Kerala Royals scaled the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0place winning two categories namely Women\u2019s Singles and Women\u2019s Doubles.<\/p>\n

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Manoranjan from Karnataka Warriors won the Men\u2019s Singles Final against Sreeshanth from Kerala Royals.\u00a0\u00a0 Men\u2019s Doubles went to the duo Manoranjan and Harsha from Karnataka Warriors while Munna Simon and Rajiv Pillai of Kerala Royals were the runners up. The charming Parvathy Nambiar and the winning combo Ranjani Haridas and Rosin Jolly from Kerala Royals won the Women\u2019s Singles and Women\u2019s Doubles respectively.\u00a0Ravi Chetan and Disha Poovaiah of Karnataka Warriors emerged as champions in Mixed Doubles.<\/p>\n

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The players were very enthusiastic and they played with passion which was very engaging and kept people on the edge. Audience were hooked on to their seats waiting in anticipation for some enjoyable moments. The spectators were in awe to see their favourite celebrities play with such professional expertise.<\/p>\n

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Additionally, as part of Season 2, CBL team had organized NextGen \u2018Talent Hunt\u2019 \u2013 with an aim to select and nurture potential aspirants which will eventually serve as a launch pad for professionals in this sport. It was organized across 3 cities in Tamil Nadu namely Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai. The event saw a total of 557 registrations across 3 different age categories – Under 10 , Under 13\u00a0 and Under 15 . The tournament took place on the 17th<\/sup>\u00a0and 18th<\/sup>\u00a0of February at Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore. After an exciting round of matches and fire cracking performances, total prize money of 1 Lakh rupees were handed over to the winners and runners up.<\/p>\n

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As the Next Gen Champions, 4 players were selected based on their performance in the tournament for the sponsorship awards.<\/p>\n

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  1. Srinidhi of Kanchipuram (Chennai) \u2013 Winner : Under 15 girls Singles & Doubles, Under 13 Girls Singles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sanjay NairofThiruvallur (Chennai) \u2013 Winner : Under 15 Boys Doubles & Runners Up under 15 Boys Singles<\/p>\n

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    1. Reshika of Thirunelveli (Madurai) \u2013 Winner : Under 13 Girls Singles & Runners Up under 15 Girls Doubles<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Niranjaan Nandakumar (Coimbatore) – Winner: Under 13 Boys Singles & Doubles<\/p>\n

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      Addressing the gathering, Mr. Hemachandran, Founding Director & CEO \u2013 CBL said, \u201cI am delighted with the success of the CBL Season 2. We had an exciting time conducting the event and I am very sure that everyone associated with this would also feel the same. The m\u00e9lange of different communities and the diverse talent adds a lot of memorable and colorful moments worth cherishing. With our endeavor to promote and groom future talents, this year we also have been able to sponsor aspiring Badminton players under the Next Gen program. We plan to take this forward on a large scale in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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      About Celebrity Badminton League: <\/strong>Instituted in the year 2017, Celebrity Badminton League (CBL) is a premier platform for stars from various film industries to showcase their interests and talent in badminton. CBL currently features celebrities from four major film industries in South India, representing their respective regions, as they battle against each other in the league matches. There will be 5 major categories this league \u2013 Men\u2019s singles, Men\u2019s Doubles, Women\u2019s singles, Women\u2019s Doubles and Mixed Doubles, to ensure gender equality and quality entertainment for our audience. Celebrity Badminton League is a unique sporting league that intends to create a niche in the \u201cSportainment\u201d industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Sponsorship Awards to Next Gen champions from cities across Tamil Nadu Chennai, March 1, 2018:\u00a0Karnataka Warriors win the Celebrity Badminton League (CBL) –\u00a0 Season 2\u00a0 that took place on 25th\u00a0February, 2018. Speaking about the specific categories, Karnataka warriors emerged as winners in the Men\u2019s Singles, Men\u2019s Doubles and Mixed Doubles thus winning the overall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9551,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9548\/revisions\/9551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}