BCQC’s College Quizzer of the Year 2022

Date & Time: 1 May 2022, Afternoon
Venue: VIT, Pune
Format: Elims + Finals
QMs: Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi
Results:
1^st: Prajot Patne at 125
2^nd: Chinmay Deshpande at 95
3^rd: Ritwick Johari at 65 (on tie-breaker)
4^th: Ritoban Maitra at 65
5^th: Naman Jain at 45
6^th: Palak Shah at 40
7^th: Atharva Soman at 30
8^th: Sagnik Sarkar at 15

After a long (and relatively dry) hiatus of 2 years, we finally had the annual BCQC College Quizzer of the Year competition in a physical setting. Held in VIT, the solo quiz was held after the Teams quiz with a small lunch break in between.

The Prelims were relatively long with 27 questions, consisting of 21 single pointers and 6 double pointers. Floyd took special efforts to keep the prelims as general as possible, with minimal amount of obscure fundaes. The prelims cut-off was surprisingly low at 7, probably because we had 8 teams in finals.

The finals consisted of four rounds - 2 Written rounds and 2 IRs.

The finals started with a 6-question set on 'Typography'. As opposed to what the subject choice may have you believe, it was a very accessible set with well framed questions. Next, we had the IR Round with 12 questions in total, which consisted of some very brilliant answers by participants on equally brilliant questions.

After this we had a Floyd special written round on Food with 5 questions, presented with his signature style. Chinmay from SLS was leading towards most of the first half of the quiz, followed by Prajot and Ritoban from SLS.

In the final round of Reverse IR however, a decent number of pounces by Prajot and Ritwik of AFMC ensured that the former finished on top, followed by Chinmay in second place, and Ritwik and Ritoban tied for third place. Omkar Dhakephalkar took the initiative of resolving the tie with a question set. This went on for some time before a brilliant answer by Ritwik ensured that he sealed the finish.

All in all, it was a great ‘welcome back’ to physical quizzing with appreciable efforts taken by Omkar and Floyd, along with other behind-the-scenes personnel. Special thanks also to Naman for providing the venue.

Report by: Prajot Patne