QM: Ranajeet Soman
Format: Written elims (25 points) followed by Finals for 8 teams (28 Questions IR + 16 questions in 4 written rounds)
Results:
1st: Aditya Gadre and Samrat Sengupta: 207 pts
2nd: Shrirang Raddi and Mihir Raddi: 160.5 pts
3rd: Pranav Mohapatra and Shreyas Shetty: 82 points
4th: Nadeem Ansari and Pranav Pawar: 76.5 pts
5th: Ajai Ragde and Vishal Prasad: 72.5 pts
6th: Akshat Trivedi and Akshay Ayush: 67 pts
7th: Omkar Arora and Anubhab Kar: 50 pts
8th: Adarsh Ramakrishnan and Anirudhan Balajee: 30 pts
Report:
From personal experience I can say that it is extremely difficult to set a niche quiz, particularly on sports, which appeals equally to the general quizzers and hardcore sports enthusiast. With this, the second edition of his annual football quiz, Rana pulled off this feat with aplomb.
The quiz started with a 25 question elims and set the stage for what was to follow with questions broadly rooted in football - but covering geography, history, politics, other sports and a variety of other topics. The cut off for the 12 teams that showed up was 8/25.
The finals had more involved questions and several cracker fundaes - very well packaged, and extremely with seldom seen attention to detail in the framing. We not only got a tour of the football world but checked out several other attractions along the way. And yes, there were a couple of hardcore football questions but not the number that would scare off any general quizzer. Knowing and following football certainly helped, but was in no way a pre-requisite to do well in this quiz.
As to the results itself, Aditya and Samrat ran away with the quiz from start to finish and won comfortably. Srirang, a former BC Cup winner, who came with his son gave some great answers to finish just 40 points behind.
On a lighter note, the biggest success of this quiz is that Rana resisted the temptation to run this at several other occasions and kept the quiz for this fest. On a less lighter note, a bit of a tragedy that this quiz saw only 12 teams take part for I'm certain a vast proportion of the quizzing crowd would have enjoyed it regardless of whether you follow football or not.
Here's eagerly looking forward to next years edition!
Format: Written elims (25 points) followed by Finals for 8 teams (28 Questions IR + 16 questions in 4 written rounds)
Results:
1st: Aditya Gadre and Samrat Sengupta: 207 pts
2nd: Shrirang Raddi and Mihir Raddi: 160.5 pts
3rd: Pranav Mohapatra and Shreyas Shetty: 82 points
4th: Nadeem Ansari and Pranav Pawar: 76.5 pts
5th: Ajai Ragde and Vishal Prasad: 72.5 pts
6th: Akshat Trivedi and Akshay Ayush: 67 pts
7th: Omkar Arora and Anubhab Kar: 50 pts
8th: Adarsh Ramakrishnan and Anirudhan Balajee: 30 pts
Report:
From personal experience I can say that it is extremely difficult to set a niche quiz, particularly on sports, which appeals equally to the general quizzers and hardcore sports enthusiast. With this, the second edition of his annual football quiz, Rana pulled off this feat with aplomb.
The quiz started with a 25 question elims and set the stage for what was to follow with questions broadly rooted in football - but covering geography, history, politics, other sports and a variety of other topics. The cut off for the 12 teams that showed up was 8/25.
The finals had more involved questions and several cracker fundaes - very well packaged, and extremely with seldom seen attention to detail in the framing. We not only got a tour of the football world but checked out several other attractions along the way. And yes, there were a couple of hardcore football questions but not the number that would scare off any general quizzer. Knowing and following football certainly helped, but was in no way a pre-requisite to do well in this quiz.
As to the results itself, Aditya and Samrat ran away with the quiz from start to finish and won comfortably. Srirang, a former BC Cup winner, who came with his son gave some great answers to finish just 40 points behind.
On a lighter note, the biggest success of this quiz is that Rana resisted the temptation to run this at several other occasions and kept the quiz for this fest. On a less lighter note, a bit of a tragedy that this quiz saw only 12 teams take part for I'm certain a vast proportion of the quizzing crowd would have enjoyed it regardless of whether you follow football or not.
Here's eagerly looking forward to next years edition!
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