Grants beat Leo Burnett Solutions at Tag Rugby

Grants Advertising led by Sathya Premaratne lifted the brand new “Four A’s” trophy, scoring a hard fought 2-1 win over Leo Burnett Solutions in the final of the Inaugural Inter-ad Agencies Tag Rugby Challenge 2015, organised by the Accredited Advertising Agencies Association (Four A’s) and sponsored by Hiru TV, Sun FM & Gold FM, concluded under lights, at Havelock Park on Tuesday.

14 Accredited Advertising Firms participated and at the completion of the league stage (18 matches), the two top teams of the four groups, namely, Lowe LDB & Triad from Group “A”; Media Factory & Group M Media “A” from Group “B”; Grants Advertising & Leo Burnett from Group “C” & Sarva Integrated & Saatchi & Saatchi from Group “D” advanced to the quarter-finals.

1st QF : Lowe LDB beat Group M Media “A” in Extra time 3/2; 2nd QF : Grants beat Saatchi 1/0; 3rd QF : Leo Burnett beat Sarva 2/0 ; 4th QF: Media Factory beat Triad 2/1;

SF 1 : Grants beat Lowe LDB 2/0; SF2 : Leo Burnett beat Media Factory 3/0,

Final : Sahil Premaratne touched down at stroke of time to give Grants Adv. A heart stopping 2/1 win over Leo Burnett.

Grants and Leo played in the same group and their league game ended in a thrilling 1-1 draw.

Falul Hallaj from Leo Burnett was named as the Most Outstanding Player of the Tournament.

Chief Guest, Raynor Silva, Chairman, Asia Broadcasting Corporation, Guest of Honour, Anne Balakrishnan, Group Director, Asia Broadcasting Corporation and Dushantha Ahangama, Vice President, Accredited Advertising Agencies Association gave away the awards. -BM