Tertiary Business Sense Challenge: KNUST, UGBS, UEW qualify for finals
At last, one of the country’s most revered competitions among educational insitutions, the Tertiary Business Sense Challenge (TBSC), has reached the final stage with each of the three finalists, poised the annex the bragging right as this year’s champions.
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Defending champions, University of Education, Winneba (UEW), University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), have qualified for the final of Version 6.0 of this year’s contest after managing to sail through the challenging stages.
KNUST beat their bitter rivals, University of Cape Coast (UCC), by a score of 75.5 to 62.5 in a thrilling encounter that drew many students from other universities to witness the process.
It was a deserved revenge for KNUST which had suffered series of defeats at the hands of UCC in previous encounters.
Both schools started off well, and got 16 points apiece in the first round, but the Ashanti Region-based school gained in the calculation segment in the second round to open an eight-point gap.
However, UCC came back strongly to gain a 1.2 points lead in the third round, and extended it to 2.2 points in Round 4A.
By the end of Round 4B, the Cape Coast-based school had consolidated its lead with a 5.2 points difference.
But the undaunted KNUST contestants took the competition by the scruff of the neck, and scored 10 points in the riddles to carry the day and return to the final as they did last year.
Quite contrary, UEW had it easy against University for Development Studies (UDS) when they trounced them by a score of 60.5 to 28.16.
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UEW dominated the contest from start to finish, winning all five rounds in a bid to signal their intention and readiness to face off their opponents in the finals.
The last semi-final encounter saw UGBS humiliate the SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SD-DBIDS) by 73.17 points to 41.67 to join KNUST and UEW in the final.
Sponsors
The competition is sponsored by MTN Ghana, PwC, Glico Group, Compu Ghana, Goil Ghana and GNAT.