Event DescriptionThe Boardroom Blitz is a live business simulation in which teams take over an operating company with ₹5 crore in (fake) cash and respond to a series of escalating crises over a compressed business day. Teams make decisions at every stage, each affecting the next round, while a live financial dashboard tracks their survival. Participants are judged on the cumulative outcome of their decisions and the quality of their reasoning, not on presentation polish.Event Design
Team Size: 4 members. A person cannot be in more than one team.
Duration: 8 hours.
Starting Cash: ₹5 crore of (fake simulation) money, the same for every team. None of it is real.
The Company: A fictional company with a backstory, revealed on the day.
Your Mission: "Keep this company alive." Every team runs the same company and faces the same crises in the same order. Your choices are what make your outcomes different.Your
Starting Kit: The Company DossierAt kickoff, each team receives a Company
Dossier covering: Industry and business model Financials Organizational Chart Suppliers Key Customers Competitors Company Culture The Day at a Glance Segment What Happens Kickoff and Reveal The company is revealed, the dashboard is explained, and your ₹5 crore (fake money) is handed over.
Round 0: Baseline Study the dossier and set your opening strategy. Crisis 1 The first crisis lands. Decisions lock and the dashboard updates. Crisis 2 Details revealed on the day. Lunch The dashboard stays live on the big screen. Crisis 3 Details revealed on the day. Crisis 4 Details revealed on the day.
Final Round: Recovery Plan Lock a final move using whatever resources you have left. Survival Debriefs 5-minute presentation per team, plus 5 minutes of judge Q&A. Judge Deliberation Final dashboard freeze, with live music. Awards Winners announced. How a Crisis
Round WorksExample: Crisis 1"Your largest supplier has shut down." The crisis is announced, and your team receives a Decision Card with 3 preset options (A, B, C) and a Custom Move slot. Discuss and decide. Think about what has actually gone wrong, what your options are, and what each might cost you out of your ₹5 crore (fake money). Fill in your Decision Log entry. Decisions lock. Each option has a hidden impact on your company's vitals, decided in advance by the organisers. It stays secret until the round closes. The dashboard updates, and you see how your choice played out. Crisis 2, Crisis 3, Crisis 4 and so on follow the same format. What they are stays secret until the hour they land.Remember: Decisions carry forward. For example, each team has a set budget, so whatever (fake) money a team has left after each crisis round gets carried over to the next round. The same happens with any other decision made by the company.The Decision LogFor every crisis, your team submits a one-page entry on the official form:
Venue
TBD (To Be Decided)
Bangalore, India
Diagnosis: What has actually happened, in one sentence.
Options Considered: Only one.
The option you chose: A, B, C or a custom move.
Rationale: Why you chose it, with your key assumption stated.
Risk: What could go wrong next. Custom MovesDon't love any of the three options? Propose your own. A panel of 2 organisers will assess it within 10 minutes and give it an impact rating on the same scale as the preset options.Wildcard CardsEach team gets one single-use Wildcard Card (that is randomly chosen) at the start that you can play in any crisis. Use it wisely, because you only get one.The Live DashboardA projected scoreboard updates after every round and tracks five vitals for each team:
Cash: Remaining funds out of ₹5 crore (fake money).
Revenue: Monthly run-rate.
Market Share: Your position against the competitor.
Customer Trust: Retention and reputation.
Team Morale: Staff stability and leadership confidence. These five roll up into a single Survival Index (0 to 100), which decides the rankings.Rescue
Mode: If your (fake) cash hits zero, your company is insolvent. You keep playing every remaining round, but your Survival Index is capped at 45 out of 100. You can still win special awards, such as Best Debrief.Final
Deliverable: The Survival DebriefAt the end of the day, each team gives a 5-minute Survival
Debrief covering: What did you do? What would you change? What did you learn? Judges then get 5 minutes of Q&A.Competition RoundsOnline
Eliminations Details: A company and crisis situation will be provided.
Deliverables: A Crisis Response Memo as a PDF of maximum 2 pages, responding to a single case scenario released by the OC, covering: Diagnosis Options considered Decision Rationale Risks A 30-day action plan A one-page financial impact table showing the expected effect of the decision on cash, revenue and costs, with assumptions stated.
Format: Accepted formats of the documents are .pdf, .docx or .xlsx.
Submission: Upload it through Unstop as a Google Drive link set to "Anyone with the link can view", and name it "BoardroomBlitz_Team_Name_MWRTMB".
Originality: The submiss