Date:
16-09-2017
Quiz: Credenz BizTech
Quiz
Venue: Pune
Institute of Computer Technology, Pune
Organized by/Fest:
Credenz 2017
QM(s): Ritwik Manatkar
Results:
1. Arnabh Sengupta and Anirudh Anilkumar (AFMC)
2. Veushabh Gudade and Karan Agarwal (COEP)
3. Sameer and Yash (PICT)
The Quiz started off with just a delay of around 20
minutes with a full house auditorium of about 30-35 teams. It is notable that
there was no hassle in the registrations and other pre-quiz rituals and a fair
share of the crowd was from the host college.
The elims was a nice set of 20 questions with a few
two-part questions and star marked ones that touched all the corners of all the
Biz-Tech dome. All the answers were familiar to the layman, thus creating
multiple guesses and helping the non-quizzing junta to think upon the context. Very
appreciable. Advertisements, simple questions, one-liners, company trivia, etc
all were covered and the cut-off was around 7.
Top six teams made it to the finals: 3 from PICT, 2 from AFMC
and 1 from COEP. 5 rounds of various formats made the finals playful and
engaging. The two IRs were regarding various companies, their histories, business
terminologies etc. Good framing made answers workable. There was a short and
quick written round of 10 questions on "Honest Company Taglines" in
which all teams scored decent points.
Another round was a pounce-only round. Questions were
divided in two parts. If you answer in the 1st part then the stakes are +10/-10
and if attempted in the next slide with more hints, then they were +5/-5. This
round was a bit easy though the teams struggled whether to answer Ponds/
Vaseline or Royal Enfield/Harley Davidson at a point.
The Derail round (wonderfully explained by Arnabh in 5th
para of General Quiz report below) saw tougher questions. The interesting rules
many teams gained points while others lost.
Overall the quiz was prepared with a lot of efforts that
could be seen in terms of framing and content. A few extremely unpopular terms
popped up as answers, that ideally shouldn't be in a Biz-Tech quiz but they
didn’t seem too vague or irrelevant; and also spoke of the research that must
have gone in the making of the quiz.
Peters were tweaked so that still looked new and
fresh.
Suggestions:
Instead of just companies/terms the quizmaster should have weaved a story into
the questions and asked the fundae. That would result in interesting guesses
from teams. The QM should have been more stiff in engaging the crowd and
instructing the teams.
It was all in all a very awesome time spent at the quiz
with scores coming neck to neck of all the top teams. Kudos to the QM for
putting up a great debut series of quizzes.
Report by: Vrushabh
Gudade
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Date: 16-09-2017
Quiz: Credenz MELA
Quiz
Venue: Pune
Institute of Computer Technology, Pune
Organized by/Fest:
Credenz 2017
QM(s): Ritwik
and Rajan
Results:
1. Arnabh Sengupta and Anirudh Anilkumar (AFMC)
2. Ankit and Anurag Chaudhary (PICT)
The quiz had
robust participation from engineering, medical, pharmacy colleges, leading to a
full house. The preliminary round consisted of a written round with 20
questions. They were very workoutable, with hints being provided by the QM.
Finals followed
the same interesting format as the first quiz, with a Derail Round that really
brought the claws out. There was a pleasant balance with respect to questions,
and they were evocative of a nice, general flavour. Anime, music, celebrities,
literature and TV series; the questions covered it all. The contributions of
William Shakespeare to the English language made itself felt during two
quizzes, sinister connotations associated with nursery rhymes raised their
heads and things started getting Schwifty in there. The rounds were aptly named
and the safety slides were all prepared by a meme lord.
The quizmaster
was not overly pedantic (Take note, Divij.) and seemed to be happy when teams
figured out answers.
Gr8 m8, 5/8
would quiz again.
Report by: Anirudh
Anilkumar
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Date: 17-09-2017
Quiz: Credenz General
Quiz
Venue: Pune
Institute of Computer Technology, Pune
Organized by/Fest:
Credenz 2017
QM(s): Ritwik Manatkar
Results:
1. Anirudh Anilkumar and Arnabh Sengupta (AFMC)
2. Bareedu Sai Pavan Kimar and Ruturaj (AFMC)
3. Advay Aundhekar and Ananya Menon (AFMC)
The prelims were on the easier side and had many
derivable Qs with the top score being 17 and the cut-off being 8. Most regulars
saw their prelims score hover around the 15 mark.
Teams from AFMC dominated the quiz from the start with 4
out of 8 teams in the Finals from the college.
The Finals questions were well spread among the topics
and everyone from Rick and Morty, Van Dyck , Skrillex to Shashank Manohar made
a cameo. A slurry of incorrect pounces kept some teams on the back foot in the
start.
The LVC was made on the Angry Birds characters and led to
some teams widening their lead. A second LVC was included that was pounce only
for its elements. This round was really well crafted with everyone from Edith
Piaf and Zlatan making an appearance. The connect spelled out the name of the
fest itself!
The General Quiz at PICT always surprises us with
innovative rounds. While last year we saw the introduction of a ‘Memento’ based
round, this year the QM, Ritwik Manatkar introduced a wonderful ‘Derail’ round.
No tongue in cheek reference to the current rail scenario, obviously. The teams
could challenge another team to a Q and if the challenged team failed, they
would have 10 points docked from their tally! It led to some wonderful “camaraderie”
among the quizzers, all regular in the circuit. It took some explaining for the
first timers and shook up the score board a lot.
By the start of the final round 2 AFMC teams were
decidedly in the lead while the others trailed by 30 odd points.
The final round saw some great Qs as has been the style
of the QM, keeping his best Qs for the last. There was a lot of arguments about
half points at one point which came to a stop when the arguing team realized
there’s no cash prize for 3rd place. All in all, the quiz was well
made, had questions on various topics and the effort put in by the QM was
evident from the innovative rounds he had included in the quiz.
PS: Reportedly 200 teams registered for this quiz. That’s
some footfall!
Report by: Arnabh
Sengupta