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Elite-Cup 2024 - Perfect European Championship warm-up for the Elite Network members

The Elite-Cup, the annual soccer tournament for members of the Elite Network of Bavaria, took place on 8 June 2024. Held at the University of Regensburg's sports park, the Elite Graduate Program Honors in Business, Economics, and Information Systems welcomed 12 teams and numerous spectators. With over 200 people in attendance, the atmosphere was unique even before the tournament began. The weather was also at its best with a sunny 26 degrees.

Groups of young people in different soccer shirts are standing on a tartan track and are listening to a man standing in the stands.
Welcome and final instructions from the organizers before the race finally gets underway.

In excit­ing pre­limi­nary round matches, which were played in three groups of four teams each, the teams bat­tled it out for a place in the knockout phase. In addi­tion to the home team from Hon­ors in Busi­ness, Eco­nom­ics, and In­for­mation Sys­tems, also the "MQE Ball­ers" from the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gramm Quan­tita­tive Eco­nom­ics, the team from the Max We­ber Pro­gram, the "Cod­ing Kick­ers" for the Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram, the cross-program team "Sci­entific Com­puting & ENB All­stars", the teams from the Elite Grad­uate Pro­grams Hon­ours De­gree in Tech­nolo­gy Man­age­ment (CDTM) and Theo­retical and Math­emat­ical Phys­ics (TMP), as well as "Carl's Won­derful World of Foot­ball" from the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram Glob­al Change Ecol­ogy quali­fied for the quar­ter finals.

Several young people on the soccer field chaseing after the ball.
The teams gave their all in the competition for the coveted Elite Cup.

But first there was the lunch break, dur­ing which the partic­ipants were well ca­tered for. Even dur­ing the games, there was al­ways plenty of nour­ish­ment avail­able for the audi­ence and play­ers - in­clud­ing a pop­corn ma­chine, apples and bana­nas. A mem­ber of Hon­ors’ jersey spon­sor KPMG Re­gens­burg was pre­sent until the final, show­ing the com­pany's sup­port and ap­preci­ation for the event.

In the after­noon, the re­main­ing teams once again gave their all to win the pres­tigious Elite Cup. After a thrill­ing match, the Max We­ber team se­cured third place. Hon­ors Re­gens­burg and TMP finally faced each other in the excit­ing final - a clas­sic for die-hard fans of the Elite Cup. The home team, Hon­ors Re­gens­burg, pre­vailed with a nar­row 1:0 victo­ry and suc­cess­fully de­fend­ed their title.

A group of young people in summer clothes and soccer shirts stand on a tartan track in front of a soccer pitch and cheer. A man in the middle laughs into the camera and holds a large trophy in his hand.
The happy Honors in Business, Economics, and Information Systems team with their fans after successfully defending their title.

The Elite-Cup 2024 was not only a com­plete sport­ing suc­cess, but also im­pressed with its excel­lent organ­iza­tion and friendly, re­laxed at­mosphere. Par­tici­pants and fans alike en­joyed a day full of sport­ing high­lights and shared ex­peri­ences.

Text: Elite Graduate Program Honors in Business, Economics, and Information Systems

 

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