KARACHI, Dec 19: Awesome Data Steel, with their cerebral firepower, grabbed the inaugural Younus Suriya memorial bridge tournament by 139 victory points (VPs) at Karachi Club Bridge Hall on Sunday.

Data Steel’s Rashid Jafer, Rashidul Ghazi, Pervez Mirza, Sultan Siddiqui and Tariq Rasheed Khan had almost a clean sweep of the two-day event but for their tie with EFU which they lost 14-16.

When play resumed on Sunday, Giants posed serious challenge to Data Steel despite trailing 61-67, though their experienced team comprising Masood Saleem, Shahin Iqbal, Yousuf Talpur, Akhtar Zaidi and Masud Azhar went down 14-16.

Data maintained their winning streak in the fifth round as they beat Havoc 16-14, and wrapped up the title in style registering a maximum 24-6 VPs win over Aces.

Giants finished runners-up after they thrashed Chandna 19-11. Chandna were made up of Shakeel Chandna, Jamal Nizami, Ghulam Muhammad, Saleem Ahmed and Anjum Zaidi.

EFU secured third spot with 122 VPs and Chandna finished fourth a point behind at 121. National champions Candyland and experienced Havoc could make it nowhere among the top six.

The winners received Rs20,000, Giants Rs15,000, EFU Rs10,000 and Chandna Rs7,000. An special prize of Rs5,000 went to hosts KC.—APP