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BC Cup 2017 - Report

Set by Aniket Khasgiwale, Yash Marathe and Aditya Gadre Format : 30 question elim to determine the 8 quarter finalists. Then a 60 question quarter final to determine the top 4 i.e. the semi finalists. A 40 question Semi final to narrow down to the top 2 in the finals. A 24 question Finals played over two legs (home and away) to determine the winner.  Report :  The 2017 edition of the BC Cup was amongst the toughest we've ever seen both in terms of the field as well as the close-ness of the results. The elims itself produced two huge shocks with two time BC Cup winner Anannya Deb and pre-quiz favourite Shouvik Guha both missing out on qualifying. Rahul Kottalgi, Kaushik Koley and Deepanjan Deb narrowly missed out by 1 point. The elims seemed to favour the younger lot with the most of the experienced folk losing out.  The Quarter Finals: The Quarter finalists were Shrirang Raddi, Venkatraghavan S (aka Ingit Sir), Gokul S, Shubhankar  Gokhale, Suraj Menon, Prat...

The BC Cup 2017 - Annoucement

The BC Cup is the BCQC's annual bigly, YUUUUGE open solo quiz to crown the Best Sports Quizzer. This is the 9th edition of the quiz QMs :  Yash Marathe ,  Aniket Khasgiwale  and  Aditya Gadre Theme : Sports Teams : Individual Restrictions : (or the lack of one) Open quiz. Everyone is welcome Time : 12:45 pm, Saturday, 6th May, 2017 Venue : The Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune Prizes: Cash prizes totalling INR 9000 (up almost 40% this year!) 1st place: INR 3000 2nd place: INR 1500 3rd and 4th place: INR 1000 each 5th to 8th place: INR 500 each  Best U-22 participant (who doesn't qualify for the quarters): INR 500 Format:  First, a 30 question elim determines 8 qualifiers (or Quarter Finalists). These 8 people take part in a 60 question quarter final. The top four go through to the semi final. The semi-final will consist of 36 questions with scoring reset to zero. The top two then go to the Final where they face off one-on one for ...