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Day, Date: Sunday, 12-1-2020, Afternoon. Quiz: Sir Visvesvaraya Open Venue: College of Engineering, Pune Fest/Organized by: Sir Visvesvaraya Debate and Quiz Festival Flavour: Gen QM(s): BCQC-The COEP Quiz Club Winners: 1. Team 1: Sonie Shende and Shrirang Raddi (Batch of ’95), 185 Points 2. Team 2: Aman Shaikh and Omkar Dhakephalkar, 130 Points 3. Teams 6 and 7: Gokul Panigrahi, Samiran Mondal and Shantanou Gangakhedkar, Shantanu Pant. Tied at 110 Points 5. Team 5: Nikita Bhakre and Omkar Joshi (College Team, ILS Law+COEP), 90 Points 6. Team 3: Aaditya Yawalkar and Shounak Joshi (College Team, VIT), 75 Points 7. Team 8: Parth Hasabnis, Aditya Pethe (College Team, COEP), 25 Points 8. Team 4: Sagnik Sarkar, Ritwik Johari (College Team, AFMC), 15 Points The first edition of the Sir Visvesvaraya Open was a successful one, no doubt. With only a slight delay of about 45 minutes, the elims began in the Mechanical Department. Eight teams would go to the fi...

                           InFestYouUs, the flagship event of the annual InFest, is a Mastermind-style quiz in which participants choose a specialized topic on which they are asked ten questions. They play against everyone else, who collectively form the 'Mob'. The participant gets +1 per correct answer, and -0.5 for every answer they pass/get incorrect and the Mob answers correctly.                            With registrations exceeding 35 participants and as the day warmed up, a Mob of over 40 the challenge to the participant to answer correctly was grand. The venue was a classroom in the Academic Complex at the College of Engineering, Pune, next to the COEP Boat Club.       ...