Meet Chepauk Super Gillies, the new team of TNPL

Metronation TV, owners of the South Chennai team in the inaugural Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) have unveiled their team logo and name, selected through an SMS contest.

By :  migrator
Update: 2016-07-30 07:50 GMT
Chepauk Super Gillies

Chennai

Earlier this month, Dina Thanthi had run a campaign inviting contestants to submit their entries (through SMS for names and e-mails for logos) – calling for the South Chennai team’s name and logo. The contest drew an overwhelming response with 11,839 submissions for team-name, and 696 entries for team-logo. After careful scrutiny, 20 names were submitted to the final jury comprising film director Gautham Vasudev Menon and former international cricketers L Sivaramakrishnan and Hemang Badani. The jury presented their top three choices to the franchise owner, and ‘Chepauk Super Gillies’ was unanimously chosen as the team name. 

The selected name was submitted by three respondents — S Kannan of Madurai, I Abubakkar of Thiruthuraipoondi and L Balaji of Tiruvallur. The design of J Jhonson Anandha Kumar of Coimbatore was chosen as the winning logo. The team will sport ‘ Pattaya Kelappu ’ as its slogan. Commenting on the reason for adopting the approach of a contest to select the team name and logo, the team owner Sivanthi Adityan said, “Across the world, the success and popularity of any sporting league team largely depends on its fan-following and loyalty. That’s why we decided to engage fans right from this stage. The overwhelming response validated our belief. Having said that, the name and logo inspired by the winners will be the envy of any top-notch professional.”   

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