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Conducted by - Shrirang Raddi and Chintan Shah Set by - Thinq2Win Date: 28 November 2019 Venue : Infosys Phase-II campus Format - 20 Question Elims; 32 Questions on IR, one written round and one "Pounce" round in the Finals Results: Winners: Talentica (Gokul & Nilay) Runners up: Arcubus (Avaneendra & Kunal) Second runners up: BNY Mellon (Kapinjal & Rakesh) Other Finalists: UBS (Ashish & Nishant), Infosys (Gaurav +1) and PriceWaterhouse Coopers (Nikhil & Anil) Report: People who are not into business quizzes have a stereotype of biz-quizzes being boring and formulaic; and this quiz was anything but. The elims were really well-framed, with lots of clues for each question to help you along even if you aren't up to date with the zeitgeist of biz-quizzes and were generally a lot of fun for the participants. Though slightly short at 20 questions, the elims managed to separate the top 6 teams to go through to the finals, with a few teams ...

This Sunday too, we had a regular session being conducted at the Boat Club of COEP (for the lack of a better venue). Sai Ganesh's Pop Ki Kamai set was proctored by Gokul Panigrahi. It was a very good set from Sai Ganesh with a significant weightage being given to Indian Pop Culture. It was conducted in a shoutout format. After this set Gokul also ran his personal sets: one SciTech and one General. All in all a great session. No better way to spend a lazy Sunday evening. Note by: Prajot Patne. In attendance Gokul Panigrahi Prajot Patne Nikhil Jadhav +1

Last BCQC Sunday (6th October) brought forth another afternoon session,  Quizmasters Aditya Singh and Gokul Panigrahi put out four Applause-worthy sets. Gokul went first, starting with a QFI gen quiz. This was soon followed by Aditya's heavily- Film and Literature influenced Questions with an equal dosage of intensive Pop Cult trivia, including a set from DQC as well! The last lap saw Gokul taking the reins once again with another QFI Gen set and a  SciTech set, bringing a well executed end to yet another lovely session  The members went for the obvious choice of shout-out style that more than made up for the human presentee at the time.  Indeed a most engaging, informative and well spent Sunday afternoon.  Note by: Nikita Bhakre In attendance: Aditya Singh, BITS Gokul Panigrahi Nikita Bhakre Prajot Patne Vrushabh Gudade Pranav "Floyd" Joshi Poorva

It was another balmy afternoon of the unseasonal September of 2019. Quorum was reached by 1530 and we settled down to conduct the first set of 30 MELA questions by Nikita Bhakare from ILS Law College, Pune. Selecting a long table in the canteen, teams were forwent in favour of having a shout-out session. A twist in the tale, wherein the canteen adhikari was asked to shut down the canteen and kick everyone out, forced us to take a Mosaical journey through the campus in search of a promised land. We were led by the BCQC-the COEP Quiz Club head, (quite appropriately named in this case) Disha, in this journey to the Riverside Relaxation Area (West) in the New Academic Building. There we procured a table and Nikita ran her questions. The questions were fun and engaging. An excellent debut. Her last question was an acapella connect of Zimmer music. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed guessing and just watching the video. Props to Gokul for getting his speaker. This was followed by another 30 qu...

After an unbrief hiatus, BCQC had a Sunday session on the 15th of September 2019. The quizmasters for the afternoon were Venkat "VCat" Srinivasan and Samiran Mondal who collectively conducted appox. 100 questions. The weather was a perfect Pune afternoon, but the hint of rain forced us to preemptively take refuge in the adjacent canteen. Quorum was met by 1510 and so Vcat started his quiz by 1515. He ran fun, swift, general sets which he conducted at his workplace. Though some of the "current events" questions were dated (he ran sets he conducted since June), he gave us enough hints to crack them. After his set, which was a shout-out, Samiran ran a proper elims+IR quiz. We had four teams of two so the quiz ran for a good while. Some really nice fundae were garnished with hard-core stuff. We wrapped up the session by 1815. It was a pleasure to see some new faces: ex-BITSians as well as from SLS, and good ol' regulars. Overall, a fun afternoon. In attend...

Set by  Aditya Gadre, Aniket Khasgiwale and Yash Marathe Format : 30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. 60 question quarter to determine the top 4 for the semi finals. 40 question semi-final to determine the top 2. A 28 question final to determine the winner. Report The 11th edition of the BC Cup saw about as strong a field as last year. The elims turned out to be bit on the tougher side and Anannya Deb topped with 15.5 points. All other qualifiers were bunched together and the cut off was 10.5 with 2.5 stars. Rajiv Rai just missed out qualification on stars.  The Quarter Finals The top 8 in the quarter finals were: Prithwish Datta, Deepanjan Deb, Venkatraghavan S (Ingit Sir), Suraj Menon, Anannya Deb, Saahil Sharma, Samrat Sengupta, Anand Sivashankar Suraj, Prithwish and Anannya were a different league and led from start to finish to very comfortably take the top three spots in the quarter finals. All other qualifiers were in the hunt till the very end, with...

Slot: Sunday, 6-1-2019, Evening. Quiz: The Undecided Quiz Flavour: Gen QM(s): Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi, Charles Matthew Format: Teams of 2. Written elims, followed by finals with draft. Winners: 1. Aditya Gadre and Arnold D’Souza   + Ankita (Draft): 250 points 2. Kunal Sawardekar and Divij Ghose + Vrushabh Gudade and Prajot Patne (Drafts): 125 points 3. Ajai Ragde and Sandeep Shankar + Vencat Srinivasan (Draft): 110 points The Undecided Review (This review was hurriedly written minutes before the deadline set by Comrade Dhakephalkar, in homage to the quiz being reviewed here.) “A quiz only works out if one of the two setters is that annoying guy who keeps pushing the other one to set questions and get the work done. Neither of us (Floyd and Charles) is that person.” : Pranav “Floyd” Joshi, kinda The surprise, then, is that it actually turned out to be a decent (and more importantly, complete) quiz. The prelims were quite enjoyable: a mixture of well f...

Slot: Sunday, 6-1-2019, Afternoon. Quiz: The Italia Quiz Flavour: Italian QM(s): Omkar Yarguddi and Avaneendra Bhargav Format: Teams of 2. Written. Winners: 1. Kunal Sawardekar and Divij Ghose: 21 points 2. Aditya Gadre and Arnold D’Souza: 20 points 3. Ajai Ragde and Sandeep Shankar: 17 points They went. They came back. They set this quiz. Avaneendra and Omkar returning from their Italy tour put together this 30 question set. From ancient cities to renaissance art to modern carmakers – the set had a well-balanced mix of Italian culture questions and Italy in pop-culture questions. Except for the question where the answer to a previous question was mentioned in it, the questions were very well framed. The quiz was a nice post-lunch refresher between two full quizzes. Report by : Pranav Pawar QM with half the winning team.

Akela, A Kela - The Solo Quiz  Set and conducted by Omkar Dhakephalkar Format: Written elims followed by a very complicated finals for top 8 (details below) Results: 1st: Kunal Sawardekar 2nd: Aditya Gadre 3rd: Samrat Sengupta 4th: Pranav Pawar Other finalists: Sandeep Shankar, Omkar Joshi, Arnold D'Souza and Gokul Panigrahi Report:  Omkar set this year's edition as the reigning Solo quiz champ from 2018. The quiz started with a nice elims set (a bit on the tougher side) which did a good job of separating the top 8 from the rest. The quiz saw a huge turnout - almost packed room with several benches needing to be double loaded. In the finals, Omkar unleashed a super fun, crazy format for the quiz. There would be a series of written "BLED" rounds featuring questions on Businessmen, Lawyers, Engineers and Doctors (or as Omkar put it "the only four meaningful professions in the world"). Each correct answer in these rounds would earn you a card w...