Set by : J Ramanand and Suraj Menon
Conducted by : Suraj Menon
Results:
1st: Yash MArathe and Yasho Tamaskar : 100 pts
2nd: Suvajit Chakraborty and Aditya Gadre: 95 pts
3rd: Subhodeep Jash and Srideep: 50 pts
4th : Maitreyi Gupta and Rohit Khaladkar : 35 pts
5th : Yash Sinha and Amit Dandekar : 30 pts
6th: Karan Chawla and Saransh Verma: 20 pts
The quiz started with an excellent 30 question elims. Great workable questions. One minor crib with the elims were the slightly tougher a.k.a. Quizzer friendly questions due to which there was a low cut-off which in turn led to a mass exodus and the quiz had more or less no audience.
The finals consisted of 56 questions seamles IR , one long connect and a theme .Some brilliant questions there too. Great range of subjects covered.
It was a tough fight till the end . The Yash's clinched it when they cracked the theme and we didn't .
Suraj added some entertainment value to the quiz with his impressions of certain QMs and cries of "Jai Ramanand " whenever any question by JR came up on the screen.
Do post your opinions in the comments section.
Comments
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I think he can give an encore for you at the Landmark Quiz.
I'M PLANNING TO ASSASSINATE SUVAJIT,GADRE,YASHO AND YASH CUZ THEY PARTICIPATE IN EVERY QUIZ N WIN N DONT GIVE OTHERS A CHANCE. THOSE IN FAVOUR OF THE PLAN SAY "I". FURTHER DETAILS SOON. :-)
With infinite bounds, the anticlockwise (ACW) rounds always start with the last team. That is, if there are 6 teams, the first question in the ACW is directed to the 6th team. This is done independent of what happened in the last question of the clockwise round - which team got the first shot at that question and which team answered it is considered irrelevant.
Most quizzers would agree that getting a direct question is a minor advantage. So is asking first question of the ACW to the last team the fairest way of doing it, or should it also take into consideration who received/answered the previous question ?
My intution says it should be the latter but I don't know any maths and logic to prove it either way. All I could do was to consider the case where every question was answered on the direct, and here asking the the first ACW to the last team is the fairest option.
KRWF: Some call it infinite bounce/bounds, though we in Pune call it infinite rebounds (IR). Reasons lost in the mists of time.
As for your qn, I think IR tries to ensure number of attempts across a quiz is as same as possible. I don't agree that the direct is a minor adv - though it could be psychologically so - consider that in some qns, as the qn passes, possible answers get eliminated, making it easier as it passes, and in some others, thanks to "forward biasing" (search on this blog for more info), it might make things harder.
Assuming team C answered the last qn before the round reversal:
In earlier versions, the 1st qn anti-clockwise would go to B (which gets another attempt very soon), so D to F go behind in # of attempts; so people also tried giving it to D and back to C - but C gets more attempts.
So if you start the round at the F, you are more likely to keep the # of attempts the same than the others - hence the reasoning. Plus it saves on the usual quizzing cribs.
If keeping attempts uniform is
If keeping attempts uniform is the end-goal, starting with F is more likely to be closer to that goal, I think.
BTW considering there were 4 bengalis and 3 yash's in the quiz, I stastically should have won the quiz :P
How about introducing pars for questions, and put in sand traps and water hazards, and provide each quizzer with his own caddie...?