The Techie Kaun Quizzes at SCIT
Day One:
Technology Quiz
Date: 1st Aug
Venue: SCIT Audi, Hingewadi.
QM: Suhel Banerjee, Google.
Results:
1st : Rohit Jain + 1 (SIBM) 100 Points
2nd: Siddharth Dani and Rashmi Vadanagare (VIT) 95 Points
3rd: Abhishek Nagaraj and Sudeep Pradhan (COEP) 93 Points
Nature:
Technology was a bit of a misnomer. Mostly involved
tech-business along with tinges of including movies and politics. QM was innovative
and passed the litmus test called Siddharth Dani, who otherwise was in plein forme
as far as expletives for people is considered. The best thing was the sense of
BC informality to what was quite a big quiz. QM must be commended for saying stuff
like "you might want to kill me after this", and then proceeded to
give a quite arbit connection involving half-sisters and full monsters. nnovative
rounds included using Google Trends (search volumes for specific keywords vs
time) and mostly included us guessing why there was a spike in searches for a
particular keyword at a certain time.
Main complaint has to be scoring system. Very very unfair,
although included doubling something which I personally don't mind. However
long connects has 30 - 15 D&P scoring, that never gave us a chance, and Siddharth
+ Rashmi were done in by negatives when they doubled. In conclusion, great quiz
and enjoyed myself if only for the questions. But sir, next time please to have
seamless IR.
Day Two:
Bizzy B - Business Quiz
Date: 2st Aug
Venue: SCIT Audi,
Hinngewadi.
QM: Avinash
Mudaliar, 3xUS.
Results:
1st : Rohit Jain + 1 (SIBM) 70 Points
2nd: (SPJAIN) 55(?) Points
3rd: (I forget) (i forget) Points
(Help!)
Notes:
Firstly elims had negative scoring. Bad. Very very bad.
Next, questions involved recently changed MDs, the various posts of Gopal Balakrishnan
and dates from history and ranks of organizations in rich-lists. Bad. Very very
bad. To be fair, the few good questions were overshadowed by their quite badly
behaved friends. Add the usual symbiosis fundaes like, "This exam is like
CAT", "You should have known how it works, you have given the
CAT" and "OK, fine. If you did not know, good. Now it will help you
when you give the CAT". But, I digress.
Here enters the QM. Now I have a feeling, the QM entered
here figuratively as well because if the finals was anything to go by - there
is no way the same person could have set the elims, or if I am mistaken it just
showed an extreme apathy towards the elims. Anyway, the finals were quite
excellent. There were fundaes, Shamanth style question asking, (but nowhere
near as cool). However this quiz too was affected by the bane of all quizzes,
showing smart-ass ads and asking what happens next, and indentify this ad. If
the QM could have veered away from this temptation, the quality of questions
would have been elevated greatly. The presentation was a bit too loud and
'showy' for our liking, but what to do.
In general, must say the guys at Symbi are improving as far
as flexibility, choosing of QMs, and management in general is concerned. Now,
if only Dani hadn't called them Quiz Nazis, I would've said, well done!