India Quiz at Silhouettes 2007 - Report
Date: 17 Feb, 2007 (Saturday)
Venue: AFMC, Pune
Quiz set by: Anand Misra
1st: Sajith Surendran + Nitin Arun Dikshit (AFMC)
2nd: Shamanth Rao + Salil Bijur
3rd: Ganesh Hegde + Suvojit Chakraborty (substituted by Samrat Sengupta)
4th: Safal Muhammad + Vivek Mathew (AFMC)
5th: Pallavi Rautrey + Junaira Rahman (SSLC)
6th: Prashant Singh + A.K. Gupta (CME)
Comments
Member-of-said-team-deeply-offended-by-omission
Great state of M.? Thought Greater Maharashtra was the technically correct name.
*The STFU-ite
(chorus: 'Jai Maharashtra Veeru Pune')
The sad thing is that this phenomenon of 'quiz-fixing' is quite a regular feature at some of the college quizzes conducted at the said venue, as also, I suspect, some annual quiz at MIT.
Why the accusation of rigging?'
Pls elaborate
Brijesh
A case in point being the India Quiz held when I was in my final year.
The duo that eventually won the quiz was seen making statments like 'bechke khaanewaale hain prize ko', before the quiz.
While another extremely capable AFMC team, that of Vasukeshav Sharma and Chandrakant Nair, gave us a really tough fight in the quiz, the winning team had comfortably settled into the first position by a huge margin and by the time half the quiz was over.
The sad thing is, they too knew that rigging had happened, but they weren't in a position to do anything about it.
Some of the cadets organizing quizzes this time round too seemed to agree with my observations.
Now, it must be said here that it isnt a case of sour grapes. It is not as though I am crying foul after losing a quiz. It is more a case of bringing out into webspace, what a lot of college quizzers hitherto discussed in hushed tones.