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Firstly apologies for not sticking to the new testament of quiz announcements. Here are the courte details for the regulars : Date : 25th Feb. Day : Saturday Venue : COEP Amphi. Time : Registrations begin 10 am. Note : also watch out for lone-wolf media quiz and Abhimanyu. Please visit : Chakravyuh Blog for full details. Cheers, Abhishek PS : Also thought - please check out beta version of BCQC website .

Wall Street 2005 - Business & Economics Quiz Quiz set and conducted by: Kunal Sawardekar Results: 1st: Prakash + 1 (SCMHRD) 2nd: Anupam Akolkar + Salil Bijur (VIT) Joint 3rd: Kunal Thakar + Anand Ayyadurai (VIT) & Harsh Ketkar + Arnab Pal (VIT) 5th: Siddharth Dani (VIT) & Abhishek Nagaraj (COEP) 6th: Symbiosis

IMS Quotient Results: 1st: Fergusson: Kunal Sawardekar, Puranjay Parchure, Rachana 2nd: VIT (1): Harsh Ketkar, Rashmi Vadanagare, Nilay Puntambekar Also: Symbiosis Law, VIT (2), Sinhagad COE, Wadia This was the Pune leg of the IMS Quotient (IQ) Quiz. The winners go to Delhi for the grand final on 14th Feb. More details here . QM: Charanpreet Singh Comments: {Will be put up soon.}

Chakravyuh now has it's own blog / website. Check it out at chakravyuh.wordpress.com Note that details regarding exact dates etc. are yet to be made clear. Please comment if 25th of Feb, Saturday would be convenient. Cheers,

January 2006 - Open Quiz Results 1st: Kunal Sawardekar, Sudarshan, Kunal Thakar 2nd: Niranjan, Pradeep Ramarathnam, Ramanand 3rd: not sure Others: Salil-Arnab-Bharath, Vibhendu-Balaji-Puranjay, Harish-Sirisha, Anand-Srikant-Harsh, Abhishek-Brijesh-Siddharth, Ganesh-Aniruddh-Arun Important Update The quiz has been advanced to 14 Jan, Saturday. Venue: COEP's Boat Club. Time: 1 pm. Date 15th January, Sunday Time 2 pm Venue The Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune Flavour General To be conducted by Shamanth Rao Structure Teams of 2, written elims, eight teams in the final Contact info 98810-00957

A checklist while organising quizzes After a couple of recent quizzes where some basic concepts were found to be lacking, here are a list of things that have come out of our collective experience of attending and setting quizzes. If there are any additions/corrections, please leave them in the comments. Announcements Set the correct expectations for the quiz. Clearly mention the nature of the quiz if there are themes involved. It's better to have a small group of interested participants rather than a crowd of disgruntled hangers-on who thought there would be "free pizza, man!" Mention the following points: Expected team size Location (with directions if required) Starting time and expected duration Registration if required (most good quizzes don't need prior registration and actually find it more convenient that way - on the spots are preferred) Any criteria to be satisfied Contact information Who is/are organising and conducting the quiz (if ...