Karjee Manindra from Gajapati district was the champion of the tournament. Badamundi Tapan of Gajapati district was the 1st Runners-up and Sumit Samantaray of Jajpur district was the 2nd Runners-up of the overall event. In the Event-B, Debapriya Biswal of Rourkela was the winner while Sarthak Mohanty from Khordha and Hrudesh Panigrahi from Ganjam were the runners-up and 2nd runners-up respectively. Prizes were also given to all the winners and runners-ups of all the categories from Under-5 to Under-15 in both the categories. Similarly, Rabindra Sahu from Kalahandi was the winner of Veteran category while Hemant Kumar Panigrahi from Kalahandi was the runners-up. Top 3 ranks from Rourkela were also awarded in the event. Cash award of Rs. 85,000/- were awarded among the rank holders and winners.

Notably, around 240 Players from different parts of the state took part in the championship The matches were played in Under-5, Under-6, Under-7, Under-8, Under-9, Under-10, Under-11, Under-14, Under-15 and Veteran categories for Open, Boys & Girls groups. Mr. Raghunandan Padhi, Deputy Manager (Sports) coordinated the event.

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