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T his is the BCQC's annual solo, open quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the sixth edition. ( Reports for  2009 ,  2010 ,  2011 ,  2012  and 2013 editions).  Format:       First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers (i.e. 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. The top two then go to the final. The  scoring is reset to zero after every round. 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 you get 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. Prizes:  Cash prizes for the top 8 finishers (i.e. everyone who qualifies from th...

Quiz 1:  Written General Quiz Set and Conducted by Aditya Gadre 1st: Kunal Sawardekar and Aniket Khasgiwale - 29.5 /40 2nd: Arnold D'Souza and Suraj Prabhu - 20/40 Quiz 2: The Malik Pritam Quiz Flavour: MELA Set by: Aniket Khasgiwale, Govind Grewal, Abhinav Dasgupta, Nikhil Sonde and Anannya Deb Conducted by: Aniket Khasgiwale Results: 1st: Suraj Menon, Dvaipayan and Anurag: 180 pts 2nd: Avaneendra, Shivam and Alok: 125 pts 3rd: Kunal Sawardekar, Ajay Ragde and Sanidhi Ragde: 115 pts 4th: Suraj Prabhu, Omkar D and Omkar P: 110 pts 5th: Samridh Kapur and Arnold D'Souza: 100 pts 6th: Venkat S, Maitreyi Gupta and Kapeesh Saraf: 35 pts Since there were only 17 people who showed up, we decided to randomise teams and have everyone in the final. The intended elims were run as 3 written rounds Four teams were within 5 pts of each other at the half-way mark, following which Suraj Menon and team pulled away to win quite comfortably. 4 teams were in contention fo...