India can boast of as having “the largest field hockey tournaments in the world

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Hockey is the national game of India and we can boast of as having “the largest field hockey tournaments in the world” which is held every year. The last in 2016 with 299 teams. Which ?

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The annual Kodava Hockey Festival is the largest hockey tournament in the world. The Kodava hockey festival was started in the year 1997 and was the brainchild of 69-year-old Pandanda Kuttappa and Pandanda Kashi Ponnappa. the inaugural tournament, an academy called as The Kodava Hockey Academy was started to oversee and have the final say in all matters related to the future tournaments. Each subsequent tournament would be organised annually by a different Kodava family and the name of the family was given as the name of the tournament. The organising family was mainly responsible for arranging the finances and infrastructure needed for the festival.