Interrobang

This Sunday (25th) saw the BCQC October Open being conducted at Extentia in Kalyani Nagar. The event consisted of two quizzes with an impressive contrast in QMs – a short written quiz by post-Aashiqui (post-HAHK even) Pranav “Floyd” Joshi followed by the main Gen quiz by pre-CHOGM Samrat Sengupta. QUIZ 1: Name: What's In A Name? Maybe There's Something In a Name QM: Pranav "Floyd" Joshi Style: Written (20 questions) Flavor: General Results: 1. Aditya Gadre + Arnold D'Souza (16) 2. Omkar Dhakephalkar + Pranav Pawar (12.5) 3. Shivam Sharma + Suraj Prabhu (11.5) 4. Samrat Sengupta + Gokul (10) 5. Vineet Chaurasia + Sampooran Singh (9.5) 6. Divij + Dhananjay (9) This was originally billed as a quiz with no proper nouns in any of the answers. This is an interesting idea and automatically forces the setter to frame questions in a more "work-out-able" structure. However, for certain reasons unknown to us, the QM decided at the last minute...

Set and Conducted by Chinmay Tadwalkar Attended by ~100 teams Format: Written elims of 25 questions. Finals comprising 32 questions on Infinite Rebounds and a 6 question written theme round  Results: 1st:  Aniket Khasgiwale & Aditya Gadre:  185 pts 2nd: Kunal Sawardekar & Arnold D'Souza: 170 pts 3rd: J Ramanand & Debanjan Bose: 130 pts Jt 4th: Omkar Dhakephalkar & Pranav Pawar: 80 pts Jt 4th: Suraj Prabhu & Rohan Danait: 80 pts 6th: Uday Bansal & KN Chakraborty: 75 pts An good solid quiz put up by Chinmay.  The quiz started with a 25 question written elims. The elims was a close affair with all of the teams that qualified bunched in the 13.5 to 17 bracket. I felt most of the questions were based on nice fundas but were not sufficiently clued - making the elim a bit more "seasoned quizzer friendly" than is ideal. The finals had 2 rounds of 16 questions each on Infinite bounce - with 5 pounces per half at +10/-10  The cont...