Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance, doing the Tandava, or the Dance of the Destroyer. The angry god, surrounded by a halo of flames, with the crescent moon on his brow, with serpents entwined around him, with a flame in the open palm of one hand, dances on the dwarf of ignorance and beats out a wild rhythm which annihilates the world at the end of the cosmic cycle.

- 10th Century Chola Bronze, Chidambaram Temple, Tamil Nadu

The Chola Conference consists of :

• Annamalai University (CHIDAMBARAM)
• Anna University (CHENNAI)
• Indian Institute of Technology (CHENNAI)
• Madras University (CHENNAI)
• Pondicherry University (PONDICHERRY)
• Sri Venkateswara University (TIRUPATI)
• Bharatidasan University (TIRUCHIRAPALLI)

Located in the South Zone, the conference includes 7 universities spread over Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Pondicherry. The cities of Chidambaram, Chennai, Pondicherry and Tirupati are directly involved in the competition, with Arrakonam, Kumbakonam and Perambalur as neutral sites.

In the Chola Conference, an astro-turf field is located at Chennai. Doordarshan studios are located at Chennai.

Watch out for intra-state rivals Madras University vs. Bharatidasan University, and inter-state rivals Madras University vs. Pondicherry University. Madras University has the potential to achieve National Rankings.

The average distance travelled by the teams in this conference will be 123 km. In the distance grid below, * indicates that the match will be played at a neutral site, and ~ indicates that the value is an approximate distance calculated from the state map.