Date: 7-09-2017
Quiz: Q: Tech
Biz Quiz
Venue: ILS Law
College, Pune
Organized by/Fest:
Q, the Quiz Fest of ILS Law College
QM: Mohit
Talwar and Indranil Ghawade
Results:
1. Kavin Aadhithiyan (IITB) and Snehasis Panda
(DJSCOE)
2. Arnabh Sengupta and Hritvik Jha (AFMC)
Other Finalists:
Jalaj Maheshwari
and Vikas (GNLU)
Divij G and Vrushabh
G (COEP)
Omkar B (SOAS)
and Ankit Choudhary (PICT)
Dikshant Rathod
and Partner (MITSOM)
First up,
was the Biztech quiz, which was named the Tech Biz Quiz for some reason (put me
off massively, the name) and we walked into the auditorium to be greeted by a
smattering of about 20 teams of two. There were a
couple of outstation teams including GNLU and yours truly, while the usual
suspects such as AFMC, PICT, COEP etc made up the rest of the crowd.
The prelims
could be defined in a single line: "Gimme X and Y" with a fair
emphasis on TCQ-ish stuff as well a fair number of peters. Prelims scores
ranged from 15 to 9.5 with Omkar and Ankit coming up on top. Six teams made it to
the finals and considering how the next day followed (more on that in just a
bit), I'd like to say the quiz was pretty decent. The only glitch being the
factor of limited pounce coming into play, thus forcing teams to strategize
much more than necessary.
The finals
had workable fundae along with a few peters and was pretty competitive.
Kavin and Yours
Truly led till halfway only to relinquish the lead post a couple of bad
negatives, with GNLU surging ahead. Little did they know, that post the SVC and
LVC rounds (made me a tad bit nostalgic I must say), they wouldn't even place,
with AFMC dashing ahead to the finish line, scoring a full house on the last
round. We just about survived and held on the win with a 10 point margin at the
end. All in all, to quote what a great
man once said, much fun was had.
Date: 8-09-2017
Quiz: Q: The
Gen Quiz
Venue: ILS Law
College, Pune
Organized by/Fest:
Q, the Quiz Fest of ILS Law College
QM: Ammu
Sasidharan
Results:
1. Kavin Aadhithiyan (IITB) and Snehasis Panda
(DJSCOE)
2. Tie between Pranav Floyd Joshi (Modern COE) + Pranav
Pawar (MMB) and Arnabh Sengupta +Hritvik Jha (AFMC)
3. Divij G and Dhananjay J (COEP)
Other Finalists:
Ankit C and Anurag C (PICT)
Omkar B (SOAS) and Ritwick (PICT)
Day 2 of the
quiz fest and we walked into the Audi with a lot more teams visible, so a
silent cheer for gen quizzing.
Here's
another defining statement, this time for the Gen quiz prelims : "This was in the news
recently". Very TCQ-ish prelims with a couple of questions that made
everyone question their existence to be frank.
Kavin and
yours truly led the pack with 13.75 (weirdly specific, but okay) with everyone
else bunched together between 9-12 and the last team getting in at 7.5.
The finals
were majorly biased towards history, not the good-workable types, but basically
"ID X and Y" in relation to the info provided. Scoring was majorly
tepid except for the odd blinder or the peter where almost everyone got points.
The rounds had multiple genres with one on people who TCQ-ed last year, couple
of mixed bags (mostly history though) and an Ent round.
This
continued till we reached the last round which was supposed to be a written
rapidfire round, if that makes any sense. Basically 10 one liners flashed
across the screen.
Before this
round started, the standings were:
70 to AFMC
and the Pranavs and us on 60.
After the
round, the standings were as follows:
100 to us
and the Pranavs, AFMC and the COEP team of Divij and Dhananjay all tied on 90.
The COEP
team got 7/10 questions right in the last round making a quantum jump from the
last position to 2nd place, basically rendering the rest of the quiz
unnecessary in a way.
A 3 question
tiebreaker followed by a singular tiebreaker which could not be broken, finally
culminated in the aforementioned result.
It was a nerve
wracking end to the quiz and the fest as a whole for all the teams and us especially, as
we managed to hold on to a slight lead of 10 point at the end, yet again.
Kudos to ILS
for ensuring everything went about without a hitch with a very smooth
registration process, starting mostly on time (assuming standard quizzing
delay) and ensuring moolah was handed out right after the quizzes (the sponsors
were feverishly cheered for throughout the fest).
The QMs were
cordial and flexible in the sense that they listened to the teams on stage to
tweak the format to infinite bounce and pounce as everyone likes it, despite
some other regulations mentioned on screen.
All in all,
a fun couple of days, but a little more balance in the quiz would be much
appreciated. Cheers!
Note: TCQ stands
for Typical Chennai Question (anything that has happened recently)
Reports by: Snehasis
Panda
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