Interrobang

A report by Omkar Prasannevich Dhakephalkarov     InFestYouUs, the flagship event of the annual InFest, is a Mastermind-style quiz in which participants choose a specialized topic on which they are asked ten questions. They play against everyone else, who collectively form the 'Mob'. The participant gets +1 per correct answer, and -0.5 for every answer they pass/get incorrect and the Mob answers correctly.  With an attendance of over 30 attendees, we had a strong mob to challenge and answer in case the participant could not. The venue was a classroom in the Academic Complex at the College of Engineering, Pune, next to the COEP Boat Club. The winner of InFestYouUs 2017 with a score of 8.5 was Omkar Yarguddi whose set was 'Spongebob Squarepants' set by Omkar Dhakephalkar. Close behind at joint second were Rahul Mohanty and Rahul Kottalgi with a score of 7 in 'Life and Works of Kanti Shah' and 'Hitchcock Films Post 1950s' respectively. A special...

Set and conducted by: Omkar Dhakephalkar & Kunal Sawardekar Scoring by: Pranav Joshi Results Winners - Team 2 - Vinoo Sanjay, Pravin Varma and Khagendra Narayan (Draft) - 253 points Runners up - Team 3 - Ajai Ragde , Sandeep Shankar, Pranav Pawar (Draft) - 186 Runners up - Team 4 - Aniket Khasgiwale, Aditya Gadre, Omkar Yarguddi (Draft) - 186 4th - Team 1 - Avinash Mudaliar, Rahul Kottalgi, Nadeem Ansari (Draft) - 159 5th - Team 5 - Annanya Deb, Krishnamurthi J, Ayush Agrawal (Draft) - 117 6th - Team 6 - Maitreyi Gupta, Abhinav Dasgupta, Vibhendu Tiwari (Draft) - 108 Report The quiz started with a 25-question written prelims, with the top 6 teams qualifying and the next 3 teams having their members drafted to the others. Team 3 took an early lead in the first third of the quiz, but by the round reversal Team 2 (who had topped the prelims) overtook them and stayed in the first position for the rest of the quiz. Team 1 put in a strong showing to reach the second place by...

Set and Conducted by Aditya Gadre Scorer: Pranav Joshi Final Results  1st: Kunal Sawardekar - 395 pts 2nd: Rahul Kottalgi (RSK) - 330 pts 3rd: J Krishnamurthi (JK) - 295 pts 4th: Aniket Khasgiwale - 250 pts Other Semi Finalists: Omkar Dhakephalkar - 175 pts Vibhendu Tiwari - 165 pts Pranav Pawar - 165 pts Shubhankar Gokhale - 150 pts Other Quarter-finalists: Kunal Thakar - 101 pts Ajai Ragde - 94 pts Charles Matthew - 82 pts Divij Ghose - 77 pts Ashwini Natu - 69 pts Mayank Mazumdar - 67 pts Gokul Panigrahi - 64 pts Omkar Yarguddi - 39 pts The quiz started with a 40 question prelim where the top 16 qualified. JK topped the elims with 23 points and Kunal and Khasgi came second with 20 points. The other 13 participants were clustered in a range of 7 points. The cut off was 13 with 3 stars (Ranajeet Soman just missed out on stars). All participants started with a score of (elims score * 3). This was followed by a a 40 question quarterfinal for the top 16....

Get set for two days of non-stop antifesting! With a range of different quizzes and a selection of quizmasters to choose from (we recommend attending all, so that you can compare better), we present to you the schedule for InFest 2017. For more details -  https://www.facebook.com/events/333347933707491/