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Date - 20/05/2018 Set and conducted by Kunal Sawardekar Format - 25 question elims, 36 question finals Results First - Team 5 -  Aditya Gadre, Venkatraghavan Sahasranaman and Ranajeet Soman (draft) - 132.5 pts Second - Team 2 -  Rahul Kottalgi, Omkar Yarguddi, +1 - 80 pts Joint Third - Team 1 -  Aniket Khasgiwale, Venkatesh Srinivasan and Vibhendu Tewari (draft) & Team 4 -  Omkar Dhakephalkar, Pranav Pawar and Nadeem Ansari (draft)  - 75 pts Other Finalists  Anannya Deb (draft), + 2 Report Kunal told us that the elims would be fairly simple and displayed a lesser seen side of the Dunning-Kruger effect where people with superior ability in a task assume it is equally easy for others. To put it simply, the elims were not at all simple and the spectre of self-doubt was haunting every quizzer present after the first few questions because nobody seemed to be getting anything. This improved in the latter half and questions became accessible. In...

Set and conducted by Omkar Dhakephalkar Format - Written, 40 questions Flavour -  General Results:  1st: Aniket Khasgiwale and Venkat Srinivasan (not vcat) - 25.5 points 2nd: Rahul Kottalgi and Pratyush Jha - 23 points 3rd: Venkatraghavan S and Aditya Gadre - 22 points Omkar put together a great set of workoutable, interesting and accessible questions. The questions covered a wide range of topics. Also kudos to Omkar for crisp framing of the questions - it was very clear what exactly was required in each question. No negatives I can think of for the quiz - except that perhaps some questions might have been better used in a live passing setting than at a written quiz  

BC Cup 2018 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 10th edition of the BC Cup saw easily the strongest field we have ever seen at the BC Cup with at 6 past winners and general studs travelling from all over the place for the quiz. The elims were a bit easier than previous years and thus high scoring. Prithwish top scored with a phenomenal 21 out of 30 and Deepanjan was close behind with 20.5 points. The cut off was 14.5 and some very good sports quizzers just missed out with 12 to 14 points. This included former winners Ramkey and Shrirang, Venky, Souvikda, a regular quarterfinalists Shubhankar, Kaushik et al  The Quarter Finals The top 8 in the quarter finals were: Prithwish Datta, Deepanjan Deb, Venkatraghavan S (Ingit Sir...

Date: Saturday, 28 April 2018 Quiz: The BCQC April Open 2018 Venue: AFMC, Pune Fest/Organized by: BCQC QM(s): Charles Matthew, Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi Flavour: Gen Results: 1. Team 5 [145 Pts.]: Arnabh Sengupta, Rohan Setlur (AFMC) + Akshay Parale (Draft, COEP) 2. Team 1 [139.5 Pts.]: Aditya Gadre, Ranajeet Soman + Nikhil Nair (Draft, AFMC) 3. Team 2 [120.5 Pts.]: Pranav Pawar, Omkar Dhakephalkar + Aman Shaikh (Draft) Other Finalists: Omkar Yarguddi (Solo) + Gokul Panigrahi, Suryadipta Biswas (Drafts) PavanKumar, Ruturaj (AFMC) + Aditya Lewis (Draft, AFMC) Kumal Sawardekar, Arnold D’Souza The quiz set by Pranav 'Floyd' Joshi and Charles Matthew was a fun experience. It had a 25 question Elims followed by a Final with 20 questions on IR, 11 questions Written and 1 List It! Team 1 started well in the first Written Round but never found their footing in the Infinite Bounce Rounds with Team 2 building a lead. Team 1 made a late surge by...