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Date: 24 Mar 2012 Set and Conducted by: Kunal Sawardekar Format: Teams of 2 for elims. 25 teams participated. 25 questions written elims. Top 6 teams in finals. Participants from 7th-9th top teams joint finalist teams. Teams of 3 for finals. Finals: 19 questions on Infinite Bounce clockwise, 5-image Meme Theme written round, 20 questions on Infinite Bounce anti-clockwise; In the IB rounds, teams were allowed to 'pounce' upto 4 times in the entire quiz. Results 1st: Team B - Anand Sivasankar, Vikram Joshi and Vikram Keskar (draft) - 195pts 2nd: Team F - Suraj Menon, Saibal Das Mahapatra and Sameer Deshpande (draft)- 75pts 3rd: Team C - Debanjan Bose, Hari Nair and Farhaz Iqbal (draft) - 70pts Joint 4th: Team D - J. Krishnamurthy, Maitreyi Gupta and Rohan Jain(draft) - 65pts Joint 4th: Team E - Samrat Sengupta, Aditya Gadre and Hitesh Mahato (draft) - 65pts 5th: Team A - Salil Bijur, Avaneendra Bhargav and Arnold D'Souza(draft) - 55pts Best College Team: Rana...

Quizmaster : Kunal Sawardekar Flavour : General Format : Written prelims; Finals with 6 teams (but with the Draft Pick system: after prelim, top 6 teams to qualify for finals, members of next 3 teams will be distributed among them.) Up to two members per team; no prior registration needed; no entry fees Date & Time 24th March (Saturday, not Sunday) Timings : 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm (report by 2.45 pm) Venue Seminar Hall II, College of Engineering, Pune How to get to the venue The College of Engineering, Pune (also known as COEP or just "Engineering College") is located very close to other landmarks such as Pune Station, Sancheti Flyover, and the RTO. The Seminar Hall is on the opposite side of the Boat Club (where our informal weekend sessions take place), near the Main Building. Contact Phone: Suraj (98903 59065), Avaneendra (9011040388), Email: suraj.sk[at]gmail.com Prizes Prizes for each finalist, for the Best College Team , the Best School Team , and the Bes...

There is a quiz in Dr. D Y Patil College of Engg, Akurdi. Rohan Jain and I (Ranajeet) will be doing the quiz. Details follow. (May be subject to slight changes. Changes will be updated.) Venue : Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi Date and Time : 11th March, 11 am (tentative) Registration Fee : 50 Rs Prize money : 3k , 2k , 1k for 1st 2nd and 3rd respectively Registrations can be done on the spot. For colleges (UG/PG) only. Teams of 2. Cross college allowed. For details contact : Swapnil Pandit 8149333678 From Ranajeet Soman on the FB group

(writing this from memory and 2nd hand reports - kindly add/correct) What: Landmark Quiz, Pune Round When: 3 Mar, 2011 Where: Dhanvantri Auditorium, AFMC, Pune Conducted by: Dr. Navin Jayakumar Results 1st: Nawabs of Mahabs [Rajiv, Gopal, Vibhendu] 2nd: Haseena ka Paseena [Vikram, JK, Sumant] 3rd: Well of Course [Bala, Anannya, Atul] Other finalists: [Srinath, Abhinav, Shubhankar], [Avaneendra, Kunal, Navin], [Anand, Amit Garde, Meghashyam], [Priyambad, Amit Pandeya, Ameya Samant], Dark Horse and Black Sheep [Ranjiv Ravi,Vansa David,Bharath S] Other Results Best Corporate Team: TCS ("Born Losers", Suresh Kumar, Aniruddha Dutta and Pravin Varma) Best Two School Teams : Army Public School ( V Soumya, Abhimanyu Bhadauria, Rishiraj, Baruni Goel, Alok Gupta, Arjun Gade) Best College: Quizkanths (IIM Indore: Abhishek Upadya, Rameen Khan and Prasnna Patange) Review comments can be posted in the comments section for this blog Photos of the event (from the Landmark ...

The BCQC had its origins in the early 90s, when a group of COEP students began quizzing at the Boat Club of COEP every Saturday. It was meant to be an informal way to indulge in a pursuit that very few take to, like Jesus fish to water (or Dharmendra to whiskey). Somehow, each year, there were just about enough people to keep it going, and along the way, the caravan only became larger (hello Monica!). Spurred by that, the motley group picked up a confusing acronymic-name, grew beyond COEP to a pan-Puneri nature, and picked up a unique and authentic character of its own. All this was made possible by a large group of quizzers who gave their time, interest, effort, and their eccentricities in order to help the BCQC sustain these 2+ decades. All without expecting anything in return, except to ensure there was always a platform for those who wanted to quiz. For all its warts, moles, and freckles, this has been a reasonable success. Each year, old BC quizzers leave: some graduate (...

Details: When: 3 March, 3 pm Where: Dhanvantari Auditorium, AFMC, Off Solapur Road, Pune * Landmark Events FB page * Online registration page .

Date: 25 February 2012 Venue: VIT, Pune Theme: General Set by: Sameer Deshpande, J. Ramanand, Suraj Menon, Salil Bijur. Siddharth Dani, Ganesh Hegde, Arnab Pal, Yash Marathe, Bharat Marathe, Kunal Thakar, Anupam Akolkar (Let me know if I'm missing anyone out here) QM: Sameer Deshpande Results: (Format: Dry IR + Amul Ad round + ABCDE round) 1st: Shubhankar Gokhale and Abhinav Dasgupta 2nd: Avaneendra Bhargav and Kunal Sawardekar 3rd: Ranajeet Soman and Rohan Jain 4th: 5th: Samrat Sengupta + 1 6th: (I couldn't catch the names of the members of teams 4 and 6 and Samrat Sir's teammate. Let me know in the comments and I'll be happy to update)