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Sportz Village Xp organizes Red Bull Shuttle Up 2021, resuming brand-led sports programs post-pandemic

Dec 1, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Chief Business Officer, #Mr. Parminder Gill, #Sportz Village Xp

Sportz Village Xp, India’s premier sports management company successfully organized the third season of Red Bull’s women’s double badminton championship program called ‘Red Bull Shuttle Up’. Shuttle Up is India’s first exclusive women’s double badminton open championship program and serves as a platform for budding female badminton players (age category 16+ years) to showcase their skills.

Sportz Village Xp has had a long-established partnership with Red Bull since 2018 and this is the third consecutive year wherein the company has envisioned and executed the badminton tournament for Red Bull. In 2020 when the pandemic hit, the entire country was under lockdown due to which all the sports events had halted. Post the COVID lockdowns, the Shuttle Up 2021 program marks the resumption of brand-led on-ground sports activation.
With the growing popularity of the sport be it viewership or participation, Red Bull Shuttle Up, India’s first-ever exclusive women’s doubles tournament, aims to further boost and improve participation and popularity amongst aspiring women players.

Speaking about the Shuttle Up 2021 Mr. Parminder Gill, Chief Business Officer, Sportz Village Xp, said, “Sportz Village Xp has a long-standing partnership with Red Bull since 2018, and this is the third successive year of conceptualizing and organizing the event. Brand Red Bull believes in the power of live sports programs to engage youth, and Shuttle Up was specially curated keeping the brand’s cause in mind that is to encourage young girls to participate and scale their game. Post pandemic, we are elated to be back on the ground with our partner brand Red Bull and engaging young audiences in sports.”

Adhering to all COVID and government-regulated protocols, this year’s event was conducted in five cities Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Guwahati, and Chandigarh. For the tournament, Sportz Village Xp ensured maximum participation by driving registrations in schools and colleges across major cities. With the action-packed season, the National finals were conducted at the Thyagaraj sports complex in Delhi. The winners of the tournament also got a chance to play against Ashwini Ponnappa, one of India’s best doubles badminton players as she is the face of the program.

Sportz Village Xp has been very actively organizing and managing many such customized Experiential Sports Marketing programs for leading brands like Boost, Tata Tea, Reliance Foundation, Skoda, and more.

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Sportz Village Xp steadily unlocks sports for consumer engagement

Oct 30, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Jitendra Joshi, #PAN India, #Saumil Majmudar, #Sports, #Sportz Village Xp

Sports are a major contributor to economic and social development. The onset of Covid-19 pandemic, as we know, has led to lockdowns of businesses, schools, public spaces etc., further leading to disruption of many regular aspects of life, including sports and physical activity. Consequently, brands that believed in experiential sports as a medium to connect with consumers were left with no option to engage consumers physically. Sportz Village Xp, the pioneer of Experiential Sports Marketing that specializes in school contact programs designed to meet brand’s consumer connect goals, configured new ways to engage kids through ‘Phygital’ means.

Saumil Majmudar, Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Director of Sportz Village says, “There is a pent-up need in consumers for playing after all the restrictions recently. And so, with all the appropriate safety protocols being followed, sports programs will see a restart as consumers focus on health and immunity through physical activity/play/sports. These programs will be a combination of Digital and Physical – Phygital – hence providing the right balance of safety and scale. In the near term, Home will be the New Playground”.

Sportz Village Xp and group company Sportz Village have successfully designed and implemented various Phygital programs to keep kids active during the lockdown, like Home Games, Play At Home as well as Active Club which is a subscription-based online training platform for physical education and sports.

With the Unlock 5.0 taking place and markets gradually opening up, people are cautiously stepping out into the new normal. Saumil continues, “Brands will be eager to re-engage with consumers after the lockdown and they will naturally go towards engagement models that ensure consumers see them in a positive and uplifting context. And experiential sports programs, Digital and Physical, with all the safety norms and standards, provide the deep engagement they need to reconnect with their consumers.”

Sportz Village Xp offers great sports experiences by providing PAN India participation opportunities across multiple sports. Its areas of expertise include Experiential Sports Marketing – helping brands achieve their marketing goals through amateur sports programs; Grassroot Sports Development and School Contact Programs – enabling millions of kids to experience the magic of sports; and Government sports programs – providing execution & network support to large-scale government sports initiatives.

Over the years, this business vertical has been responsible for the execution of well-recognized large-scale events and programs like Mumbai Games – the world’s first-ever city-level, multi-age and multi-sports extravaganza, Premier Badminton League, Reliance Foundation Youth Sports, Coca Cola Cup, Hero Grameen Khel Utsav, Skoda Single Wicket Tournament, Boostcamp, Tata Tea ‘Suraksha’, Star Sports KBD Junior, Milo National Quiz, HCL Foundation ‘Sports for Change’ and the Khelo India Youth Games among many others.

Jitendra Joshi, Co-Founder and Director of Sportz Village says, “Brands like these believe that sport is the most receptive medium for engagement and enables a long-term relation with their consumers, not to forget the recognition they get as a sports enabler brand.”

As an entity, it has partnered with over 100 brands, over 15000 schools & colleges to create unique sports programs, thus driving participation from more than a million kids each year.

Sportz Village Xp, with its well-defined safety protocols for events, learnings from international markets like Dubai, and its investments in Digital experiential sports marketing platforms like Digital Talent Identification and Digital Tournaments can help brands engage with consumers at scale in a cost-effective manner.

Sportz Village Xp is actively driving consumer and employee engagement programs through Phygital play/sports solutions and hoping to deliver active Experiential Sports Programs in the near future with safety SOPs in place.