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Date: 21st Oct 2012 Conducted by: Aditya Gadre Attended by ~10 teams Format: 17 questions written elims; 2 written rounds; 60 questions on Infinite Rebounds with round reversal half-way; 5-question pounce. Results: 1st: Team E: Avaneendra Bhargav and Aditya Chandorkar + (Vikram Keskar and Gaurav Keskar): 165 pts 2nd: Team D: Kunal Sawardekar and Ranajeet Soman + (Omkar Dhakephalkar and Mustafa Abbas): 140 pts 3rd: Team B: Salil Bijur and Bharat Marathe + (Chinmay Tadwalkar and Shreyas Jaju): 115 pts 4th: Team A: Anand Viswanathan and Varun Singh + (Vibhav Bhave and Rohan Danait): 110 pts 5th: Team C: Vaibhav Bajpai and Anshuman Sharma + (Aniket Deshpande and Mihir Talnikar): 30 pts There was a low turnout for the quiz so all 10 teams were merged into 5 teams for the finals. Probably due to a late start and paucity of time and also the small number of teams, the QM chose to have only 17 questions for the prelims. This left scope for a lot more consumption of questions pe...

Set and conducted by : Vikram Keskar Format : 40 question written quiz (20 questions with a Calvin & Hobbes theme, 20 gen questions) Results: 1st : Aditya Gadre and Avaneendra Bhargav : 30.5 points 2nd : Kunal Sawardekar and Ranajeet Soman : 24 points Newbie team : 17.5 points (names not available) The quiz turned out to be only half C&H as the QM had difficulty finding enough questions. The questions were not C&H trivia but the many many pop-culture/philosophical references Watterson uses in the comic. There were quite a few philosophy related questions earlier on but with the QM's 'usual shtick' as he likes to call it, the cryptic clues were helpful in confirming guesses. The other 20 questions were good old general quiz type. The quality of the questions was good and they were well framed. There were numerous typos in the questions and one or two errors (Kunal had a field day pointing them out). The projector refused to be turned on (no pun here) ...

Date : 19-10-2012 Theme : General Set and Conducted by : Avaneendra Bhargav Format : 30 question elims.  Finals - 10 question written round, 18+18 IR Results:  1st place : Meghashyam Shirodkar, Niranjan Pedanekar, Amit Garde  132 points 2nd place : Ranajeet Soman, Aditya Chandorkar, Rohan Jain  65 points 3rd place : Sachin Ravi, Suraj Prabhu, Abhinav Pathak   28 points 4th place : Bharat Marathe, Omkar Dhakhephalkar, Debopriyo Moulik  22 points 5th place: Finehas Pinto + 2     21 points 6th place : CVR Shastry + 2     0 points The quiz started late by almost an hour and a half (nobody complained though).  There was a lot of bureaucratic decision making going on with teams made to sit in order of their registration numbers for no practical reason and time was wasted on petty issues. The elims were good with an even spread of topics. The lack of a projector was a hindrance as the teams sitting...

Who here is not a fan of Calvin and Hobbes? Vikram Keskar puts together a set of questions based on everyone's favourite cartoon strip. So transmogrify into that quiz nut, duplicate yourself in case you have other plans and be sure to feed that tiger at home - and come for the Calvin and Hobbes quiz this Sunday.  Quiz 1: Calvin and Hobbes themed written quiz Quizmaster : Vikram Keskar  Flavour : Calvin and Hobbes  Format :  Written quiz (bring a writing instrument) ; two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Timings  1:00 pm to 2.00 pm  Date : 21st October (Sunday) Venue :  Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune  ~ ~ ~  Once upon a time there was a quiz. It was a nice quiz. It was a fun quiz. It was a quiz that everybody loved. It was the Durgotsav All Pune Open Quiz Championship organised by the Bangiya Samskriti Samsad. Thousands came every year to hear the that melodic Bengali v...

The most Bengali sounding non-Bengali Oboneendro (Avaneendra) Bhargav has set and will host this edition of the quiz which has a cult following in the city. Promises to be good. Show up to have a good time. On the spot registrations allowed.     P.S. There are food stalls with delicious Bong dishes at the venue. NOT complementary though.

Set by Amit Patil and Rohan Danait with inputs from Neelima Jha & Mihir Khatwani Theme: Science and Technology (Sci-Tech) Date/Venue: 5th October 2012, Auditorium (Elims) & Room No.13 at College of Engineering, Pune Format: 30 Question Elims, 46 Question Finals (18 IR +10 Special round (XKCD) + 18 IR Rev) Total Teams: 54 Results: 1st Place: Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair (Team F: Fish Curry Rice) - 135 pts [Elims: 26 (5*)] 2nd Place: Nikhil Motlag and Avaneendra Bhargav (Team B: Einstein Ke Frankenstein) - 115 pts[Elims: 16 (4*)] 3rd Place: Rohit Iyer and Ravi Handa (Team E: The Latecomers) - 110 pts [Elims: 20 (3*)] 4th Place: Ranajeet Soman and Sachin Ravi (Team D: Quizzing For Nirvana) - 45 pts [Elims: 20 (4*)] 5th Place: Abhishek Bagade and Ameya Bhagat (Team C: Yuva) - 25 pts [Elims: 18 (4*)] 6th Place: Harshal Sarda and Shantanu Hadgekar (Team A: Tech-Wizards) - 10 pts[Elims: 11 (3*) ] Best College Team (outside the finalists): Ayush Bhat and Yateen Kedare Eli...

Qonnoisseur- The MELA Quiz at COEP's MindSpark 2012 Conducted by Rohan Danait 1st: Swapnil and Akib: 150 pts 2nd: Kunal sawardekar and Avaneendra Bhargav: 115 pts 3rd: Aditya Gadre and Annanya Deb: 105 pts 4th: Ranajeet Soman and Rohan jain: 95 pts 5th: Ravi and Rohit: 75 pts 6th: Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair: 65 pts Positives: - The quiz was a huge contrast from Chakravyuh the previous day - the effort in setting the quiz was apparent. - The quiz started off with a nice elims set - a few questions could have been better framed but overall a good effort. - The elims were engaging and well conducted - a big thumbs up for a lot of visual content as well - The finals had quite a few nice questions - and most questions were well framed - The ppt was well thought out - everything we needed was on the slides - The caricatures round was really nice - Overall the quiz was light and interesting - most teams seemed to like it. Negatives: - After reminders and announce...

The Chakravyuh Open Quiz - A part of COEP's MindSpark 2012 Conducted by: Neelima Jha Attended by ~100 teams Results: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar and Avaneendra Bhargav: 120 pts 2nd: Aditya Gadre and Vikram Keskar: 115 pts 3rd: Debanjan Bose and Hari Nair: 60 pts 4th: Vikram Joshi and Abhinav Dasgupta: 40 pts 5th: Ranajeet Soman and Rohan jain: 20 pts 6th: Nikhil and Vishvesh: 5 pts This year's Chakravyuh happened on a Saturday, a welcome change from last year which meant that a few of us could travel from out-of-town to take part. The elims were, there is no other way to say this, bad. Ambiguously worded questions and no prior thought into what the expected answer was led to the post-elim period turning into a bargaining contest - teams tried to convince the QM about how their answer was correct as per their interpretation of the question and the QM actually gave in on far too many occasions. One thing that irritated me was that the visuals were run only at the en...

Name Score J Ramanand 73 Salil Bijur 63 Kunal Sawardekar 53 Ranajeet Soman 38 Rohan Danait 27 Debojyoti Adhikari 25 Mihir Talnikar 18