Slot: Saturday, 20-1-2018, Evening.
Quiz: Single Personality Disorder
Flavour: General
QM: Kunal Sawardekar
Format: Lone wolf. Written elims, followed by 12 member finals with the lowest 6 dropping out after 30 questions.
Kunal had promised a quirky set for the solo quiz on Saturday afternoon and the quiz lived up to its billing. The elims had a cut-off of 9.5 with most of the usual suspects qualifying apart from a couple of minor upsets as Prithwish Datta and Aniket Khasgiwale didn't make the finals.
The finals started with a couple of tough questions and it took a while for some of the contestants to get on the scoreboard. Considering that this was a general quiz, the distribution of topics could have been better. The quiz was heavy on topics of the QM's interest - history, geography, military and also had a more western focus. However, as expected there were very good fundae throughout the quiz which made it quite interesting for the participants as well as the audience.
30 questions into the
finals, the bottom six were eliminated, leaving Omkar Dhakephalkar, Pranav Pawar,
Abhinav Dasgupta, Apratim Mukhopadhyay, Aditya Gadre and Suraj Menon to fight it out over the last 16
questions. Aditya was leading by 5 points over Omkar, Pranav and Apratim
at this point but Omkar gave some great answers in the final leg to win
the quiz by a narrow 5 points over Aditya and Apratim with Pranav
finishing a commendable 4th.
This was a great performance by Omkar, beating stalwarts from both Mumbai and Pune. Also kudos to Apratim. We shall hopefully see a lot more of him at BCQC in the future.
Final scores:
Top 6:
Omkar Dhakephalkar: 125
Apratim Mukhopadhyay: 120
Aditya Gadre: 120
Pranav Pawar: 110
Abhhinav Dasgupta: 95
Suraj Menon: 90
Places 7 - 12:
Anannya Deb: 60 (lost to Suraj on elims score)
Samrat Sengupta: 55
Vibhendu Tewari: 50
Navin Sharma: 25
Report by: Aniket Khasgiwale
Quiz: Single Personality Disorder
Flavour: General
QM: Kunal Sawardekar
Format: Lone wolf. Written elims, followed by 12 member finals with the lowest 6 dropping out after 30 questions.
Kunal had promised a quirky set for the solo quiz on Saturday afternoon and the quiz lived up to its billing. The elims had a cut-off of 9.5 with most of the usual suspects qualifying apart from a couple of minor upsets as Prithwish Datta and Aniket Khasgiwale didn't make the finals.
The finals started with a couple of tough questions and it took a while for some of the contestants to get on the scoreboard. Considering that this was a general quiz, the distribution of topics could have been better. The quiz was heavy on topics of the QM's interest - history, geography, military and also had a more western focus. However, as expected there were very good fundae throughout the quiz which made it quite interesting for the participants as well as the audience.
I
liked the format of the finals, with 12 finalists it provides a better
chances for people to qualify. And eliminating the top 6 two-thirds of
the way into the quiz was also good idea. However in this case it was a
close call as #7 (Anannya Deb) was only 15 points behind #1 so it was
unfortunate that he had to drop out. There was also an innovative pounce
format with the first few incorrect pounces having a minus 5 which went
up to minus 10 later.
This was a great performance by Omkar, beating stalwarts from both Mumbai and Pune. Also kudos to Apratim. We shall hopefully see a lot more of him at BCQC in the future.
Final scores:
Top 6:
Omkar Dhakephalkar: 125
Apratim Mukhopadhyay: 120
Aditya Gadre: 120
Pranav Pawar: 110
Abhhinav Dasgupta: 95
Suraj Menon: 90
Places 7 - 12:
Anannya Deb: 60 (lost to Suraj on elims score)
Samrat Sengupta: 55
Vibhendu Tewari: 50
Navin Sharma: 25
Divij Ghose: 25
Anand Sivashankar: 5
Anand Sivashankar: 5
Report by: Aniket Khasgiwale
1 comment:
Thank you for your kind words. I will note, though, that the credit for the idea of having multiple finalists and eliminating finalists after a set number of questions belongs to Aditya Gadre, from whose Solo Quiz at Infest 2017 I copied it.
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