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.
This year we
surpassed all records (so far) with 67 sets spread over a day and a half. With
so many participants and QMs, we had a consistent audience, ready to give
negatives as the Mob, as well as patiently waiting hours for their turn.
There were two
winners at InFestYouUs 2022 too. At 9/10 were Nikhil Sonde (Nobel Prizes in
Physics set by Sania Narulkar) and Mukilan Ayyapparaj (Akira Kurosawa set by
Avaneendra Bhargav). Both showed how they knew their topics like the back of
their hand, with Nikhil Sonde earning particular praise, being a last-minute
replacement. Mukilan (debut at InFestYouUs) also answered rapidly,
missing only one despite coming close to the answer. The Mob got no opportunity
to score in their sets.
At 8 points was Srinath Bhashyam (National Anthems by
Omkar Dhakephalkar) who missed two, without the Mob stealing anything.
His
gaddi was not safe however, with a crowd at 7. Abhinav Dasgupta’s keen literature prowess was seen (The Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction by Vivek Tejuja) as well as
debutant Arjun Siva’s was in the ring (The History of, and, Contemporary MMA by Atul Mathew). Another last-minute minute replacement, Ramesh Natarajan
(Cricket Stadiums in India by Venkatesh Srinivasan) also features in the
honourable mentions at 7. They all lost a point to the Mob.
Thejaswi Udupa’s
Karnataka Set, Rajiv Rai’s History of Photography in India set and Shubhanker Gokhale’s
Currencies in Circulation sets were particularly appreciated.
A special mention must be given for participants and quiz masters from Europe, Australia, Singapore and America who participated despite the Earth rotating and trying to play spoilsport.
A sincere thank you to the huge number of quiz-setters for setting such diverse and excellent sets for InFestYouUs. Heartfelt thanks to all the setters who could take their sets in-person, from sickbeds, and through half-sleeps. The participants for showing up and staying with us, and the awesome Mob all deserve praise. We would also like to thank Eric Yuan and Zoom Video Communications for their cloud-based peer-to-peer video conferencing software platform, Zoom, which enabled this fest. Cheers until next year!
Top 10 scores:
Report by: Omkar Dhakephalkar
1 comment:
kudos for organizing and keeping this tradition going!!
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