Interrobang

Floyd and Charles belled the Quiz-ire cat with Dhake and Pranav Pawar(PP) on 2nd, Rahul Mohanty and me(Gokul) on 3rd.  The prelims were easy and approachable, it was easier to compare scores by how much one missed rather than how much one got. There were 20 questions, with some questions being more equal than the others (read: multiple parts and points). There was an obligatory question with an answer as Caravan referencing the IISER event Karavan where the quiz was held. Top 6 teams qualified for the finals, with possibly the highest cut-offs for any quiz. Apart the above 3 teams, we had Divij+? from COEP, Rohini+Harshad from IISER and an AFMC team.  Finals had 2 Long connects(which was 1 too many IMO!) sandwiched between 2 infinite bounce rounds with pounce. The ranks remained steady (with the top 3 teams staying on top) barring a few surges due to a freakish long connect scoring.  PROS: Overall, excellent content and hosting. Clearly, the setters had ...

QM’s – Vrushabh Gudade & Mihir Mogra 1 st Place – Chinmay Tadwalkar & Divij Ghose (140 points) 2 nd Place – Deepak Chandel & Joel D’Souza (120 points) 3 rd Place – Akshay Parale & Omkar Borate (105 points) 4 th Place – Avaneendra Bhargava & Nikhil Motlag (95 points) 5 th Place – Pranav Joshi & Deven Deshpande (60 points) 6 th Place – Rohan Tikoo and his partner (55 points) Report written by – Omkar Borate An Open Biz – Quiz, which was organized by CoEP BHAU’s E – Cell, as a part of their E Weekend, took place at Academic Complex, CoEP on 23 rd October, 2016. The quiz had some really nice and workable fundaes, barring few peters and hence was a nice quiz overall. The QM’s were novices and being an open quiz, they were pried upon by the seasoned quizzers, due to which they lost control of the proceedings at times, for which they made up by putting up a fantastic set of workable questions. Also, the turnout was quite low considering...