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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 14th edition of the BC Cup took place at the Boat Club steps on the 13th of May, 2023 - one of the hottest day of the year.  The heat and perhaps the QFI event the next day saw a slightly diminished participation at this year's edition.  The elims was a close affair as usual and the biggest surprise was Ingit sir not qualifying for the second year in a row. One big surprise was that Dada (aka Anannya Deb) didn't make it - and by that I mean the most consistent performer at BC Cup didn't show up at all. Prithwish Datta lived up to his wounded tiger billing by putting in an imperious 21/30 to top the elims, while Rotti got 18. It was also nice to be debutants Titash and Bissanka make it to th...

Date: 23 January 2023, Sunday, Day 2 of InFest 2023 Venue: COEP's BHAU Institute Format: Elims + Finals QM: Aditya Gadre, Debanjan Bose, Sachin ‘Talent’ Deshpande, and Ranajeet Soman Team 1 – Prithwish Dutta (Boss), Nikhil Sonde and Anuradha Dharwadkar (draft) Team 2 – Kunal Sawardekar, Shivam Sharma and Malhar Patel (draft) Team 3 - Vibhendu, Rajiv Rai and Abhishek Hariharan (draft) Team 4 - Omkar D, Pranav Pawar, Pranjal (draft) Team 5 - Meghashyam, Nadeem and Anisha Karnail (draft) Team 6 - Suraj, Anannya Deb and Anmol Dhawan (draft) The last quiz of InFest 2023 was a general quiz by Aditya Gadre, Debanjan Bose, Sachin ‘Talent’ Deshpande, and Ranajeet Soman. The quiz kicked off with a nice and accessible elims set that covered a wide range of topics and included some absolute gems that were worthy of being in the finals too. The finals were a great set of questions kicking off with a small written round on famous speeches, before segueing into a phenomenal set of questions cover...

Date: 22 January 2023, Sunday, Day 2 of InFest 2023 Venue: COEP's BHAU Institute Format: Elims + Finals QM: Kunal Sawardekar and Omkar Dhakephalkar Results: 1st: Brig. Sandeep Shankar, Shrirang Raddi & Pranav Pawar (Draft) 2nd: Anannya Deb, Aditya Gadre & Anisha Karnail (Draft) 3rd: Brajendu Bhaskar, Somashish Ghosh & Sania Narulkar (Draft) Report: Other Finalists: Nikhil Sonde, Prithwish Datta & Krishna Girish; Meghashyam Shirodkar, Samrat Sengupta & Akshay Parale, Rajiv Rai, Vibhendu Tewari & Abhinav Dasgupta (Draft) This year's edition of the quiz started with a nicely set, well-rounded but relatively tough elims (even though that may not be evident on account of the lack of outraged tweets from Ranajeet Soman on the topic) with the cut-off being 10/25. We had our usual mix of 6 teams that qualify directly and 3 teams making up draft picks - with the shocker being that Suraj and Rana didn't make it. The final had 2 written rounds and 2 IR rounds -...

Quiz:   Solo Quiz Date:  21 January 2023, Saturday, Day 1 of InFest 2023 Venue:  COEP's BHAU Institute Format:  Elims + Semis + Finals QM:  Vibhendu Tiwari and Rajiv Rai Results: 1. Suraj "Phenom" Menon 2. Aditya "Gadre" Gadre 3. Abhinav "DG" Dasgupta Other Finalists: Sania Narulkar, Ranajeet Soman, Prithwish Dutta Semi-finalists: Abhishek Hariharan, Samrat Sengupta, Nikhil Sonde, Meghashyam  Shirodkar, Suvajit  Chakraborty and Kunal Sawardekar Report: The exciting conclusion of the last Solo Quiz at an in-person InFest left us with two setters for this years' Solo Quiz, a sort of E Pluribus, Duos  situation that may just create a precedent for future InFest Solo Quizzes. The Elimination round was a fun set of 25 questions, with some effort taken by the QMs to make the questions accessible and a provide local flair. After a relatively high-scoring elims (you do not want Ranajeet to start complaining about difficulty of the elims questions on Tw...

 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 had 30 sets and a large Mob. Everybody was ready for a great start to InFest and the quizzes did not disappoint. This year’s winner was was Jayant Pande with an 8 out of 10 (Urdu Poetry at the Court of Bahadur Shah Zafar set by Suraj Menon). This was Jayant Pande’s debut at InFestYouUs and he gave some brilliant answers in a brilliantly set quiz. The Mob got did not answer anything in his set. There was a two-way tie for second place. At 7.5 points we had Vibhendu Tewari (Hindi Music Directors Pairs set by Anannya Deb) and Prithwish Datta ...