Results:
1st: Rajiv Rai, Sumant Srivathsan, Yash Tamaskar (draft) [A]: 145 pts
2nd: Atul Matthew, Abhinav, Suraj Menon (draft) [B]: 105 pts
3rd: Suvajit C, J. Ramanand, Harish Kumar (draft) [E]: 80 pts
Jt. 4th: Anand Sivashankar, Aditya Gadre, Devang Ghia (draft) [F]: 55 pts
Jt. 4th: Amit Varma, Anannya Deb, Niranjan Pedanekar (draft) [C]: 55 pts
6th: Vibhendu Tiwari, Sarat Rao, Ajith Prabhakar :45 pts
Elims: highest: Rajiv+Sumant (22/35); cutoff: 15
Participating Teams: about 40
I was quite disappointed with the (short) quiz and will struggle to think of redeeming features. Perhaps someone can comment about the silver linings. Until then, the clouds:
* Elims were ok, but many questions suffered from being vague in communicating what was expected. This caused problems during correction later. Crisp answers & minimum ambiguity are necessary, especially when people apart from the QMs are correcting.
* More than average number of cricket qns
* A couple of qns in the finals (like the Gulzar) were just bad
* Powerpoint excesses once again, as we groaned again and again about the size of the text in the question. Will lead me to believe they were pasted from a web source, so avoidable, IMO.
* Once again, a case of QMs making questions till the last minute and hence not being able to present a crisp and pleasant interface?
Ok, there were a couple of very nice questions in the finals, which provoked good answers by some of the finalists. The winners led comfortably through out the quiz, and team 2 did very well to come back. But in all, I found the quiz rather uninspiring, and I almost found myself thinking of other things I could have been doing. Wish that were not so.
Comments
Actually a good point suggested by "Mr. Anonymous" which triggered an opposite idea in my head. Why don't the bcqc members conduct a quiz for non-bcqc regulars (like anon)?? I think next bcqc open quiz should be for non-bcqc ppl! Everytime there are same ppl on the stage. Why not something different??
And its not that bad. I never used to get on the stage till last year.
Obviously every quiz is biased towards people who are good :)
Amit: hopefully, the fact that some of the quizzes have the 'draft pick' allows newer faces on stage from time to time. And there are always BC sessions for all.
Oh, and since there is no concept of a 'bcqc' membership, anyone who comes for such quizzes can be considered to be a member. So you are one, like it or not :-)
Anonymous: you can do the quiz if you wear an iron mask or a Guy Fawkes mask through the entire quiz.
P.S. This is not at all "half in jest!"
(Foot in mouth????... @moderators- Pl pl dont block me from posting here! and "please" provide an option to delete ur own comments so that later on when i repent my random blabberings i can conveniently delete them!!)
There is a bit of a waiting list right now, so perhaps we can slot you in later this year.
There is no stringent criteria, apart from that you should be able to do a quiz that is largely interesting, steers clears of the usual pitfalls, and does not result in people thinking they have wasted their time in attending it. It would be preferable for you to do some quizzes at the BC, or co-organise less intensive quizzes such as school quizzes etc. to give us (once who haven't seen your college quizzes) the confidence that you can pull a BCQC quiz off. That will also enable us to give you feedback before you go before the pack of vultures that are quizzing audiences.