Quiz 1: Business Quiz
Format: Written elims of 20 questions. Finals comprising 24 questions on Infinite Rebounds in four Quarters and a 4 question written round
Results:
1st: Arnold D'Souza, Ajay Ragde and Anway: 115 pts
2nd: Raghav C, Sachin Ravi and Suraj: 110 pts
3rd: Saswat, Alok and Omkar Dhakephalkar: 105 pts
4th: Shantanu G, Shantanu P and Anurag G: 100 pts
5th: Karthik, Shivam and Pranav Pawar: 80 pts
6th: Kunal Sawardekar, Samrat Sengupta and Pranav Joshi: 65 pts
The quiz was light and interesting with a nice mix of biz fundaes and general trivia with a Business bent. Harish covered a lot of topics and even distributed a "buzzword bingo" sheet in the audience as an innovative way to take feedback on the topics covered. I really liked the quiz for the fact that it moved away from standard business tropes and did not require one to memorise faces of CXOs. BVHK showed that good business quizzes with workoutable questions are very much possible despite the stereotype attached to business quizzes these days.
The only negative was the 15 pt pounce scoring where the team could not pounce on their own question - I know, as BVHK said during the quiz as well that "Life is not fair" - but I'd have let teams pounce on their own questions. Especially so after seeing the results where the top 4 were separated by 15 points
Quiz 2: General Audio-Visual Quiz
Set and Conducted by Anannya "Dada" Deb
Format: Written elims of 30 questions. Finals comprising 44 questions - 24 on Infinite Rebounds, four Triads of 3 questions each (written) and a 10 question round on topics to be chosen by the teams
Results:
1st: Venkatraghavan S, Aditya Gadre and Charles: 140 pts
2nd: Arnold D'Souza, Ajay Ragde, Pranav Pawar: 112.5 pts
3rd: Raghav C, Sachin Ravi and Omkar Dhakephalkar: 107.5 pts
4th: Samrat Sengupta, BV Harish Kumar and Shantanu: 90 pts
5th: Shantanu, Venkat and Nikhil: 72.5 pts
6th: Sumeet, Shubhankar and Kaustubh*: 47.5 pts
Kunal Sawardekar and Sumeet had originally qualified but since Kunal had to leave, Sumeet picked one super-sub from the audience.
Dada's quizzes are always entertaining and this one was no different. An excellent accessible 30 question elims and a well crafted 44 question final. One of the aspects that never disappoints in Dada's quizzes is the coverage of topics - which is always vast and the quiz is a truly "general" quiz. A small negative is that the quiz was probably slightly heavy on art and culture and bit lacking in sports.
The 2 strikes system for each round of 12 questions also was easy going and never put any team in threat of losing out due to recklessness.
I liked the concept of the triads - 3 questions linked in some way - most of the times the link was obvious and made it fun to work out other questions we had missed from the one odd answer we got.
Except for a couple of finger of god incidents, the quiz went off smoothly.
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Set and Conducted by BV Harish Kumar
Format: Written elims of 20 questions. Finals comprising 24 questions on Infinite Rebounds in four Quarters and a 4 question written round
Results:
1st: Arnold D'Souza, Ajay Ragde and Anway: 115 pts
2nd: Raghav C, Sachin Ravi and Suraj: 110 pts
3rd: Saswat, Alok and Omkar Dhakephalkar: 105 pts
4th: Shantanu G, Shantanu P and Anurag G: 100 pts
5th: Karthik, Shivam and Pranav Pawar: 80 pts
6th: Kunal Sawardekar, Samrat Sengupta and Pranav Joshi: 65 pts
The quiz was light and interesting with a nice mix of biz fundaes and general trivia with a Business bent. Harish covered a lot of topics and even distributed a "buzzword bingo" sheet in the audience as an innovative way to take feedback on the topics covered. I really liked the quiz for the fact that it moved away from standard business tropes and did not require one to memorise faces of CXOs. BVHK showed that good business quizzes with workoutable questions are very much possible despite the stereotype attached to business quizzes these days.
The only negative was the 15 pt pounce scoring where the team could not pounce on their own question - I know, as BVHK said during the quiz as well that "Life is not fair" - but I'd have let teams pounce on their own questions. Especially so after seeing the results where the top 4 were separated by 15 points
Quiz 2: General Audio-Visual Quiz
Set and Conducted by Anannya "Dada" Deb
Format: Written elims of 30 questions. Finals comprising 44 questions - 24 on Infinite Rebounds, four Triads of 3 questions each (written) and a 10 question round on topics to be chosen by the teams
Results:
1st: Venkatraghavan S, Aditya Gadre and Charles: 140 pts
2nd: Arnold D'Souza, Ajay Ragde, Pranav Pawar: 112.5 pts
3rd: Raghav C, Sachin Ravi and Omkar Dhakephalkar: 107.5 pts
4th: Samrat Sengupta, BV Harish Kumar and Shantanu: 90 pts
5th: Shantanu, Venkat and Nikhil: 72.5 pts
6th: Sumeet, Shubhankar and Kaustubh*: 47.5 pts
Kunal Sawardekar and Sumeet had originally qualified but since Kunal had to leave, Sumeet picked one super-sub from the audience.
Dada's quizzes are always entertaining and this one was no different. An excellent accessible 30 question elims and a well crafted 44 question final. One of the aspects that never disappoints in Dada's quizzes is the coverage of topics - which is always vast and the quiz is a truly "general" quiz. A small negative is that the quiz was probably slightly heavy on art and culture and bit lacking in sports.
The 2 strikes system for each round of 12 questions also was easy going and never put any team in threat of losing out due to recklessness.
I liked the concept of the triads - 3 questions linked in some way - most of the times the link was obvious and made it fun to work out other questions we had missed from the one odd answer we got.
Except for a couple of finger of god incidents, the quiz went off smoothly.
-x-x-x
Please post your feedback in the comments section.
3 comments:
"The only negative was the 15 pt pounce scoring where the team could not pounce on their own question"
I would also add the whole 'get one pounce wrong and you don't get any more pounces for a whole two rounds' thing. We got our pounce wrong on the first question, and didn't get to pounce for half the quiz. If, instead, there had been a simple 10 point neg for getting the pounce wrong, we would have finished 35 points ahead of where we did, which is no small matter in a quiz where the winning team scored 115. I admit I'm generally not a fan of one-finite pounce, but this was a little too far over the top.
Apart from that, loved the quiz. The coverage of the topics was good, and it was really fun to take part in an accessible and workable biz quiz for once.
Will the InFest 2014-15 Questions ever get posted ?
Just wondering... why do the rules wrt pounces vary so widely between quizzes, quizmasters, even cities? Having started my quizzing ages ago when this concept did not exist, I understand the need for the pounce system, but always find it distracting. At times, it detracts somewhat from the joy of enjoying the quiz itself. So QMs, admins, decision-makers: please try and standardise to get a fair, equitable and enjoyable pounce system?
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