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March 2007 BC Open Quiz - QM's (Harish) notes (See the report on the quiz ) Some of the objectives I had set for this quiz: 1. Set a new precedent for the BCQC Open in terms of production values. 2. Increase the audience involvement during the finals. 3. Questions to be framed in such a way that every team 'type' (those who prefer to work it out; those who know a lot; those who just guess) should have an equal chance. 4. Introduce areas which have not been covered till date without losing out on the interest levels. 5. Make the quiz more interesting with new rounds/formats. Some notes: 1. Low turnout for the quiz. We need to get the scheduling right and the QMs need to focus their energies on retaining those who do turn up. 2. Very low scoring elims. Lot of questions in the finals went unanswered. JR - can you confirm the number? (JR: 13 out of 36, seamless questions only) I don't agree with Anand's diagnosis - as mentioned in his comment. But we need t...

March 2007 BC Open Quiz - Report Date: 24 Mar, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Open Quiz Set and Conducted by: B.V. Harish Kumar Theme: General Quiz Final Results (36 seamless + 6*6 specialities + 6 bid questions + 6*8 rapidfire) 1st: Samrat Sengupta + Salil Bijur (B) - 190 2nd: Niranjan Pedanekar + J. Ramanand (C) - 140 3rd: Amit Varma + Sumant Srivathsan (D) - 115 4th: Anand Sivashankar + Vibhendu Tiwari (F) - 110 5th: Ganesh Hegde + Kunal Thakar/Sudarshan Purohit (supersub) (E) - 85 6th: Kunal Sawardekar + Shamanth Rao (A) - 55 Quiz Elims Results (cutoff: 15/35 qns) 1st: Anand Sivashankar + Vibhendu Tiwari - 17.5 (recd. bonus of 15 pts in final) 2nd: Samrat Sengupta + Salil Bijur (B) - 17 (bonus of 10) 3rd: Niranjan Pedanekar + J. Ramanand (C) - 16 (bonus of 5) 4th: Amit Varma + Sumant Srivathsan (D) - 15.5 5th-6th: Ganesh Hegde + Kunal Thakar, Kunal Sawardekar + Shamanth Rao - 15 Report (by Samrat and Ramanand) * Thankfully, unlike the mornin...

Prahelika at Concepts 2007, PICT - Report Date: 23 Mar, 2007 (Friday) Venue : PICT, Pune Quiz set by: Vikrant Agarwal and Akshaya Iyengar 1st: Kunal Sawardekar (UoP) + Maitreyi Gupta (VIT) 2nd: Vivek Philip + Safal Mohammed (AFMC) 3rd: Suvojit Chakraborty (SSLC) + Aditya Gadre (COEP) 4th: Kaushik + Siddharth (MIT) 5th: Harsh Ketkar + Arnab Pal (VIT) 6th: Harish Jakkal + 1 (WIT, Solapur)

March 2007 BC Open Colleges Quiz - Report Date: 24 Mar, 2007 Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, PSPL Colleges Quiz Set and Conducted by: Ramanand, Sudarshan (contributions from George towards questions) Theme: Entertainment and Literature Quiz Final Results (35 + 43 questions) Jt. 1st: Aditya Gadre + Kaustubh Bhat (COEP) - 90 Jt. 1st: Safal Muhammad + Vivek Philip - 90 3rd: - Abhishek Nagaraj (COEP) + Kunal Sawardekar (Pune University) - 73 Other College Teams: Maitreyi Gupta+1 (VIT) (55), Yash Tamaskar (COEP) + Suvajit Chakraborty (SSLC) (30) School Teams: Ojas Pandav+Kunal Tilak+Abhishek Kulkarni (5), another team of 2 (All SPM English) (10) Report * Unfortunately, the quiz was attended by very few teams , so we had to have a direct finals! :-) Poor turnout could be variously attributed to exams, scheduling it on Saturday morning, and perhaps even the themes. Lots to ponder. * Up to the participants to comment on quality of questions. * We had prizes sponsored by ...

March BC Open Quizzes Date: 24 March (Saturday) ================= 1. Quiz for college students Flavour: Entertainment, Literature Eligibility: college and school students Teams of 2; 8 Finalists By: Sudarshan and Ramanand Time: 8:45 am to 12:30 pm Prizes for all finalists and Best school teams Non-collegians are encouraged to watch the finals - lots of chocolates on offer! ================= 2. Open Quiz for all Flavour: General Eligibility: No restrictions Teams of 2; 6 Finalists By: B. V. Harish Kumar Time: 1:45 pm to 6:30 pm Prizes for all finalists, Best school, college, and newbie teams; Special audience round ================= We will have a Theme-Attic as usual in the break. ================================================== Date: Saturday, 24 March 2007 - Venue: “Bhageerath”, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Behind Domino’s Pizza, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune - Registrations free and on the spot - Contact: 98810 00957, 93244 45248, contact@bcqc.org

This was a part of Cynosure, COEP's comp dept's first-time fest. Results: 1st : Kapeesh Saraf and Vineet Bhatawadekar (COEP) Jt. 2nd: Akshaya Iyer and Vikrant (PICT) Jt. 2nd: Suhas Mahajan and Sanmitra Kale (COEP) Other Finalists : COEP+SSLC, and 2 MIT teams. Quiz happened at COEP on the 14th of March and was conducted by yours truly. Elims and finals will be available soon. Watch this space for more. Note1: When was the last time we had 2 female participants in the top 2 (?) Note2: Kapeesh and Vineet won easily in spite of the fact that neither of them studies Computer Science. And yes, it was not all "frivolous" IT trivia. We had "hardcore" issues like Algorithms, Data Compression and OS Design discussed too. This of course, in the usual BCQC 'fun' way. Cheers, Abhishek