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BCQC June 2012 Open - Results

Date: 10 Jun 2012

Set and Conducted by: Suraj Menon

Format:
Teams of 2 for elims. ~30 teams participated. 30 questions written elims.
Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams were asked to join finalist teams. Teams of 3 for finals.

Finals: 1 List It, 2 rounds on Infinite Rebounds, 1 LVC, 1 written connect round.

Scoring: Maitreyi & Samrat

Results
1st: Team A - Sumant, Anannya, and Shubhankar (draft) - 205 pts
2nd: Team C - Aditya Gadre, Gaurav Keskar, and Abhinav Dasgupta (draft)- 190 pts
3rd: Team B - Harish, Aniket, and Ramanand (draft) - 160 pts
4th: Team D - Vikram Keskar, Ranajeet Soman, and Vikram Joshi (draft) - 140 pts
5th: Team E - Aditya Chandorkar, Rohan Jain, and Suraj Prabhu (draft) - 100 pts
6th: Team F - Samridh, Yogarshi, and Nikhil Motlag (draft) - 70 pts

Prizes sponsored by BCQC

Elims cutoff: 17; highest: 29 (Sumant and Anannya)

Report

Probably suffering from that oft-seen condition of being set too late, this quiz had its fair share of easy questions and we've-seen-these-befores. It did have some good, newly seen questions, but was a bit underwhelming overall. Otherwise, humorously conducted and the faux-MBA-jargon round names were a hoot.

Please leave your opinions in the comments section.

BC Cup 2012 Report

When: 10th June, 2012
Where: BC, Pune
By: Aniket Khasgiwale, Aditya Gadre, Yash Marathe

Format:
First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers (or as Quarter finalists). These 8 people take part in a 60 question quarter final. The top four go through to the semi final. The semi-final will consist of 36 questions with scoring reset to zero.
The finalists will then face off one-on one for a 28 question final. The match consists of a home leg and an away leg. Home leg essentially means your direct questions. If one gets a direct question wrong which the opponent answers, it counts as an away goal and is used for tie breakers (as per UEFA rules ).

Group stages
The fourth edition of the BCQC's megalithic sports quiz began with a low scoring and very close prelim. The prelims cutoff was 10.5, with a top score of 14 by Sumant and Suraj. The 8 qualifiers in random order were:

Sumant, Suraj, Annanya, Kaushik, Samrat,Ranajeet, Aniket R and Shubhankar.

Shubhankar took his spot after a tie-break decider where he beat Abhinav and Omkar

The Quarter Finals: Annanya won the Quarters with 8 points. Suraj and Samrat (7) were next in. Sumant, Shubhankar and Ranajeet were tied on 4 for quite some time, before Sumant scored 2 more to complete the Semi Final line up.

The Semi Final: Suraj put in a great performance to comfortably win it with 7 points. Annanya and Samrat underperformed finished on 3 points and 2 points respectively while Sumant held on to a slim 1 point lead to join Suraj in the final and  break Annanya's winning streak.

The Final
Sumant vs Suraj
In a surprisingly one-sided and low-scoring final, Sumant turned the tables and won both the home and away legs 2-0 to win it 4-0.

The winner for BC Cup 2012 is Sumant Srivathsan

Previous winners:
2009: Suraj and Sameer
2010, 2011: Annanya Deb
2012: Sumant Srivathsan

WQC Pune 2012 round - results

Organised by: IQA
Conducted in Pune by: Amit Patil (many thanks once again!)
Venue: COEP

Number of participants: 12

Local Results - score is total, including worst score (which is also in brackets):

1st: Kunal Sawardekar: 106 (+5) [Kunal's superb streak of winning the Pune round remains intact]

2nd: Ramanand: 94 (+6)

3rd: Suraj Menon: 85 (+9)


Section winners:

Entertainment: Suraj (11) [provoking cries of "Ent God", naturally]

Culture: Kunal, Sastry

Lifestyle: Kunal

Science: Kunal

History: Kunal (23)

Media: Ramanand

Sports: Ramanand

World: Kunal, Sastry

Overall results at this link.

BC Cup 2012

This is the BCQC's annual solo, open quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the fourth edition. ( Reports for 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions). This year we plan to make a couple of changes - the number of questions have increased from 148 to 154 (a small change) and the prize money has more than doubled (not-so-small change). The quiz is coupled with the BCQC's June Open Quiz to be conducted by the inaugural BC Cup champ Suraj Menon

Format:   

First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers (or as Quarter finalists). These 8 people take part in a 60 question quarter final. The top four go through to the semi final. The semi-final will consist of 36 questions with scoring reset to zero. This is to keep the 'winning three consecutive matches' concept constant from last year's edition. The top two then go to the final. 

The finalists will then face off one-on one for a 28 question final. The match consists of a home leg and an away leg. Home leg essentially means your direct questions. If one gets a direct question wrong which the opponent answers, it counts as an away goal and is used for tie breakers (as per UEFA rules ). 
So that's a total of 154 questions + tie breakers.

Administrivia  

QMs: Yash Marathe, Aniket Khasgiwale and Aditya Gadre
Theme: Sports
Teams: Individual
Restrictions: (or the lack of one) Open quiz. Everyone is welcome

When? 2:30 pm, Sunday, 10th June, 2012
Where? The Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune
Registration: Free registration. You can register here. Please register before 9th June.

This is required as we need to get elim sheets printed. On the spot registration is not impossible (but not recommended either). 

Prizes: 

Landmark Vouchers worth INR 3000 in total. Prizes for the top 8. 

How to get to the venue 

The College of Engineering, Pune (also known as COEP or just "Engineering College") is located very close to other landmarks such as Pune Station, Sancheti Flyover, and the RTO. The Seminar Hall is on the opposite side of the Boat Club (where our informal weekend sessions take place), near the Main Building.

Contact

Phone: Aditya (9881101291) ;  Email: adityadgadre[at]gmail.com

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some questions from previous BC Opens are now available at the BCQC Questions Blog.