Feb Open Quiz - Reports

Many thanks to Extentia (venue partner) and Landmark (prizes sponsor).

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"The World is Awesome"
Flavour: Geography
Set & Conducted by Kunal Sawardekar
Format: 30 questions written quiz

Results
1st: Shrirang Raddi & Arnold D'Souza (24)
2nd: Aditya Gadre & Samrat Sengupta (21.5)

Report
A nice quiz on what is still a niche topic for many. A conscious attempt was made by the QM to make the questions accessible through clues and references (some of which were lost on some of us!)

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'Garbology' - Feb Open Quiz
Flavour: Military aviation, Maratha history, scandals old and new, turnarounds in sports and politics, stuff you can buy at kirana shops
Set & Conducted by Shrirang Raddi
Format: 17 qn prelims, 41 qn finals

Results
1st: Harish Kumar, J. Ramanand (team 6 - 23)
2nd: Raghu, Mayank, Venkat (team 5 - 18)
3rd: Kunal S, Aditya Gadre (team 3 -16)
Other finalists: Samrat S + Ajay R (team 1 - 13), Avaneendra+Deepak Mohoni+ (team 2 - 5), Aditya Joshi + Naval Malpani (team 4 - 3)

Report
A highly unusual quiz, both in content and presentation - definitely not something people here are used to. "Out of the quizzing zeitgist" is how Kunal described it. One of the comebacks hinted at in the opening slide was that of the QM himself, who is returning to Pune quizzes after a while. This was his first BC Open as well, with the Opens having begun since his previous quizzing stint.

Most of the questions were interesting, but some could have been framed/presented better. The topics were eclectic and relatively unexplored, but the older folks were at a distinct advantage.

We had a relatively low turnout, partly due to the fact that there were some college quizzes at the same time.

2013 Shyam Bhatt Memorial Quiz at AFMC, Pune - Report

2013 Shyam Bhatt Memorial Quiz, AFMC, Pune
14th Feb, 2014
Set and Conducted by Chandrakant Nair
Flavour: General

Format: Written elims of 37 questions. Finals (3 written rounds, 2*20 questions on Bounce+Pounce)

Results:
1st - Vikram Joshi and Meghashyam Shirodkar - 340 points
2nd - Aditya Gadre and Shubhankar Gokhale - 335 points
3rd - Hrishi Varma and Justin Thomas - 325 points

The other finalists (in no particular order)

Gopal Kidao and Sachin Deshpande
Navin Rajaram and Venkatesh Srinivasan
Ramanand JN and Shrirang Raddi
Balakrishnan Satyam and Rahul Kottalgi
Debanjan Bose and Suraj Prabhu
Aniketh Rallabhandi and Vibhav Bhave
Aryapriya Ganguly and Avinash Mudaliar
Wg Cdr Anurakshat Gupta and Maj Safal Muhammad

Report

The Shyam Bhatt Memorial Quiz is, by our estimation, the oldest running quiz in Pune. This edition of the quiz, interestingly, had a mix of several newcomers to the quiz (from many parts of the country) and several old-returners (who took part in editions as far back as two decades ago.) And then there were some of the usual suspects.

Chandrakant Nair, an alumnus of AFMC, is the Amit Trivedi of Indian quizmasters: one has always been astonished by the depth, the breadth, and prolificity of his quizzes that does not sacrifice quality. This edition was yet another instance of his excellent work.

There were eleven fine teams on stage, whose collective achievements were both answering these excellent questions and surviving without grievous injury, a tiger-trap of a stage at the Dhanwantari Auditorium! (the quiz returned to that august setting after a few years of being sidelined to a classroom).

I particularly enjoyed the prelims (perhaps because my team did well at it) - the 'pitch' was true and one could trust the 'bounce' in terms of the clues offered. The finals had some terrific questions, but since we had begun late, I found myself feeling impatient towards the end (it didn't help that I had to be somewhere else pretty soon.) Overall, I though this year's final was much more interesting and generally accessible compared to 2013.

Great answering by the winners, who kept their calm, and to the runners-up, who mounted a rousing challenge in the last round to give the winners a little bit of a scare, not to mention the scorer.

Special mention of the scorer, who needs to be given a quizzing medal of some sort, just to keep up - singlehandedly - with the scores of 11 teams, a couple of whom were getting increasingly restive, and lots of pounces and negatives flying around. Also a nod to the college team of Aniketh and Vibhav who had a great preliminary round and some good final answers.

Some suggestions/cribs:

1. No 10-11 teams please. I find 8 teams a stretch as well, but 11 was the height (the breadth?). Too much of a pounce-fest for my liking, and found it hard to listen to teams making interesting guesses.
2. The Friday scheduling was harsh on many local quizzers who could not make it, and missed out on a good quiz (and the quiz missed out on them). Also resulted in a negligible audience.
3. ~7 hours of quizzing (inclusive of just sitting around) is avoidable - shorter prelims/finals with more breathing space between questions would have been appreciated by me. Also, I don't get a chance to 'savour' the questions, because there is this mad rush to speed-read the question, to try and get the pounce in.
4. The middle round's secret theme was a little too obscure, IMO, and definitely not very 'crack-able' with just the visual hint and not having a chance to look at the 'puzzle' more carefully when it is in progress.
5. The last round had too much at stake - almost as much as the 2 passing rounds.

Finally, my partner Shrirang returned to AFMC and Shyam Bhatt after a couple of decades - this is a quiz where he has never won despite several close finishes (an unfulfilled ambition this time as well!). But the QM's nod to COEP in the prelims was much appreciated, especially as Shrirang mentioned to me, the seeds of the COEP Saturday Quiz Club, the precursor to what is the BCQC were sown in AFMC. Read more here.

2013 InFest - Day 2 - Report

Apologies for the late report. Day 1 report is here.

In contrast to Day 1, Day 2 of the 2013-14 BC InFest had more of the traditional session-like quizzes. By the time the day ended, we had about 25-30 participants. Fortunately, we ran out of time and saved ourselves the ent-al torture of an Ent quiz by this blogger. (Meanwhile, the unasked questions are growing alarmingly monstrous in their little pods, waiting patiently for that one day when they will be unleashed on a...)

But to hairy adventures first: the day began with a quiz on facial hair by Oboneendro and Devanjan. It was only on the arrival of Anannya Deb that this hirsute pursuit gained its core audience. We broke for a not-so leisurely lunch to return and find that the real BCQC.orgy was in progress: an exam for some people for something. That began a pattern of oscillation between our regular spot and the New BC Grassy Knoll Annexe.

The first post-lunch engagement was time for some morbid curiosity - "Quizz Macabra" was an excellent quiz on the subject of death; set by Abhinav Dasgupta and Shubhankar Gokhale and conducted by the former, the questions were not mourned by anyone.

Aditya Gadre then took the stage for his innovative 'bcqc.orgy/history' quiz which had themes based on six BC quizzers (Niranjan, Anand Sivashankar, Gaurav Sabnis, Abhishek Nagaraj, Avaneendra, and Kunal Sawardekar) from BCQC history. The scoring system also involved choices of cards (Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Fail), and the resulting "eh, what, what?" was an excellent example of BC convolutedness. The questions were interesting, and punctuated by VCat's unfailing cry of "I know this!" on hearing the first word of the question, only to be proved otherwise on hearing the first word of the answer.

The day ended with our last autobiographical quiz, this time by Anannya Deb. The journey through music, places, people, and yes, football, was an enlightening one, and fitting way to close this edition of BC InFest.

We may see you next year - who really knows?

February Open Quizzes 2014

On Saturday, 22 February 2014 we conduct two Open Quizzes.

Quiz I - The World is Awesome - Written Quiz

Time: 2:30 pm
Flavour: Geography, World
QM: Kunal Sawardekar
Teams of 2
Written Quiz - Please bring writing instrument(s)

Quiz 2 - Open Quiz by Shrirang Raddi

Time: 3:30 pm
Flavour: A mishmash of military aviation, Maratha history, scandals old and new, turnarounds in sports and politics, stuff you can buy at kirana shops and many other things besides
QM: Shrirang Raddi
Teams of 2
Written Elims followed by Stage Finals

Venue
Extentia Information Technology,
Nilanjali Housing Colony,
Kalyani Nagar,
Pune



2013 InFest - Day 1 - Report

Day 1 of BC Infest began with a Saraswati Vandana and the traditional lighting of the lamp. OK, not really, but some bulbs did turn themselves on. As appropriate for an occasional footballer, Samrat gently kicked off proceedings by introducing the BC Infest, and by reading out questions in our newly introduced Autobiographical quiz segment. These featured some interesting questions by Abhishek Nagaraj, Hirak Parikh, Navin Sharma, and Samrat sir himself. Borderline narcissism apart, this gave a great glimpse into the lives of some of these quizzers. We also had a previously-unscheduled set by VCat in which we learned of the many things visible from the Trans-Siberian railway.

This was followed by the QI-style quiz by Aniket: there were no panels, but there was lots of klaxon-ing, lots of bantering, and lots of negatives. The quiz, based on the popular British show QI, had questions with lots of obvious-answers-that-were-wrong, and some obvious-answers-that-were-right-but-left-unanswered-for-fear-of-klaxon.

In a great achievement of self-control, most quizzers returned after the lunch break reasonably on time, to begin this year's InFestYouUs. In all, we had 25 participants with 25 diverse and largely eclectic topics, and a well-behaved mob. The best performances of the day were recorded by Vikram Joshi (9-0, English Monarchy), Rohan Danait (8-1, Iron Maiden), and Sahil Gupta (8-2, Indian Corporates), though comparisons are perhaps not recommended given the wide variety of question formats and difficulty levels.

Going by audience reactions, the most sought after topic session was "NSFW", chosen by Suraj Prabhu and set by Yasho Tamaskar, and the most hilarious one was (this will be a surprise) "Indo-Pak Wars", set by Samrat for Kunal Sawardekar.

With a quick round up of some more QI questions by Aniket, we went our separate ways, to resume the following Sunday with Day 2. BTW, in all, we had about 30-35 attendees. Thanks to everyone who attended, and to those who set questions. See you next week.

BCQC InFest Day 1 schedule + InFestYouUs topics

Part I of the BC InFest 2013/14 takes place this coming Sunday (see overall InFest schedule here).

Venue: All quizzes will take place at the Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune.

Schedule:
The schedule for our more-or-less annual more-or-less "Quiz" fest is as follows (more-or-less)

29th December 2013:

11:30 am: We begin the anti-fest with a set of "Auto-biographical" Quizzes, set by some of the BCQC's expats based on their own experiences, travels etc. The quiz will be curated by Samrat Sengupta

12:30 pm: Aniket Khasgiwale will be doing his QI style quiz.

1:45 - 2:30pm: We break for lunch

2:30 pm: We conduct our mastermind style individual specialty themes quiz. We have some great topics, quite a high-profile participant pool and an equally (if not more) high-profile question setter list.

Here is the list of all participants, their topics and question setters.

Anniversary Mahaquizzer 2013 - Pune Results

Quite a good year for Pune quizzers at the second Mahaquizzer of the year.

J. Ramamand makes the top 10 in India with a score of 63/150

Other quizzers who took the quiz in Pune and finished in the top 100 were:

29th: Nilay Puntambekar (51/150)
83rd: Saikat Sarkar (33/150)
92nd: Aniketh Rallabhandi (30/150)

Also Srisha Haridas just missed out on the top 100 with 28/150 getting a rank of 105

Regular Pune quizzer Suraj Menon (took the quiz from Mumbai this year) won the All India College title with a score of 60 - finishing rank 15th in the country on the open section

BC Infest 2013/14 a.k.a. BCQC.orgy

Announcing schedule for BCQC.orgy 2013/14

The quiz anti-fest that no one has really been waiting for is here. Meh. 

Venue: All quizzes will take place at the Boat Club, College of Engineering Pune. 

Schedule:
The schedule for our more-or-less annual more-or-less "Quiz" fest is as follows (more-or-less)

29th December 2013:

11:30 am: We begin the anti-fest with a set of "Auto-biographical" Quizzes, set by some of the BCQC's expats based on their own experiences, travels etc. The quiz will be curated by Samrat Sengupta

12:30 pm: Aniket Khasgiwale will be doing his QI style quiz.

1:45 - 2:30pm: We break for lunch

2:30 pm: We conduct our mastermind style individual specialty themes quiz - Infest-you-us. Over 30 people have registered - so we have over 300 questions on a variety of very interesting topics!

5th January 2014

11:30 am : We begin with a surprise quiz by resident bong quizzers - Oboneendro Bhargav & Debanjan Bose. We are told the quiz is a surprise even to the Quizmasters.

12:30pm to 1:30 pm: We break for lunch

1:30 pm: Our friends from Bombay - Abhinav Dasgupta and Shubhankar Gokhale conduct the "Dead Boring Quiz".

2:30 pm: Aditya Gadre will then conduct "bcqc.orgy/history" - a mostly general quiz in an experimental format

3:30 pm : We then have another set of "Auto-biographical" Quizzes, set by some of the BCQC's pseudo-expats (Vcat) and some friends from outta town (Anannya Deb) based on their own / their alter ego's experiences, travels etc.

4:30 pm: The Grand Finale - J. Ramanand , is doing "an Ent quiz with some differences, multiplied by divisiveness"

Mahaquizzer & AsiaSweep 2014

KQA quizzes this Sunday.

Mahaquizzer (solo event) starts at 9:30 am, AsiaSweep (team event) at 2:30 pm.
Prior registration is a must for both events to allow proctors a chance to get the correct number of sheets.
Links to register: http://kqaquizzes.org/asiasweep/ and http://kqaquizzes.org/mahaquizzer/

Pune venue: COEP Academic Complex, COEP, Shivajinagar, Pune.

Brainstorm '13 - COEP Internal Quiz - Report

(based on information sent in by Rohan Danait)

On October 24, a quiz for COEP students was held at COEP, aimed at introducing them to quizzing and to the BCQC. The quiz was set by Chinmay Tadwalkar and Mustafa Abbas (SE students) with Rohan's guidance. 20-25 teams of two members participated in the elims, from which 6 teams + 3 draft picks were selected for the finals. (Rohan says: around 15-20 people said they were interested in quizzing and would like to attend more quizzes in the future.)

The finalists:

1st place: Omkar Borate, Anubhav Tiwari, Swapnil Ahire

2nd place: Atharva Deshpande, Darshan Jaware, Animesh Bora

3rd place: Mruganayani Nagur, Ipshita Paul, Devyani Salokhe

The other finalists were:

4) Nishant Bhumare, Vibhav Tungar, Kaustubh Shakkarwar

5) Divyansh Saxena, Rohan Manatkar, Urvi Purohit

6) Devashree Ragde, Sanket Gurikar, Simran Batra



More such events are being planned for COEP quizzers, including the finals of Abhimanyu in the coming months.

Conundrums (Mood Indigo General Quiz) 2013 - Pune qualifiers

Set by Ramanand J, Harish Kumar
Conducted by: J Ramanand
Flavour: General

Attended by ~30 teams

Format: Written elims of 25 questions. Finals (2*10 questions on IR (with One-finite Pounce per half) and one written round on sobriquets (5 qns)

Results:
1st: Saikat Sarkar and Kshitij Jyoti (AFMC): 120 pts (19/6* in prelims)
2nd: Suraj Prabhu (FC) and Aniketh Rallabhandi (SCOE): 95 pts (19/4*)
Jt 3rd: Rohan Danait and Vibhav Bhave (COEP): 70 pts (17)
Jt 3rd: Nirmoho Banerjee and Samridh Kapur (AIT): 70 pts (16)
5th: Debopriyo Moulik (ILS) and Pranav Pawar (MESCOE): 50 pts (16)

Five teams were included in the finals instead of the four previously advertised because of a almost-dead tie between the 4th and 5th teams to qualify.

The One-finite Pounce system: teams are allowed to 'pounce' on questions in a half for +10 and no negatives. But if they get a pounce attempt wrong, they forfeit the chance to pounce for the rest of the round.

The top two teams will now go through directly to the Conundrums semi finals at Mood Indigo in Dec. 2013. 

Announcement: Conundrums - the Mood Indigo General Quiz - Pune round

What: Conundrums is the Mood Indigo (IIT Bombay) General Quiz. Two preliminary rounds are being organised in Pune and Chennai, ahead of the preliminary, semis, and finals in Mumbai in December

Who is this for: College students in Pune

What's at stake: The Pune prelims give two teams a direct entry into the semi final stage in December. You don't have to fight the large number of competitive teams

in the Mumbai prelims for a place in the semis. And if you don't qualify here, you can always go to Mumbai for one more attempt.

The General Quiz final during Mood Indigo has cash prizes worth Rs. 30,000/-

When: the Pune round will be held on 12 Oct (Sat) at 2 pm

Where: COEP (hall to be confirmed)

What's the format:

there will be a 25 question written prelim, followed by a stage final for the top 4 teams. 2 teams will make it to the semis.

Who is setting/conducting the quiz: Ramanand & Harish are setting. Ramanand will conduct.

What do I do next: Register at  www.moodi.org/#/competitions -> Literary Arts -> Omniscience -> Registration.

Contact: Atharva Kelkar <atharva.kelkar@gmail.com> for any help or clarifications.

Quizowski! (BCQC October Open) - Report

Set and Conducted by Abhishek "_logik" Upadhya, Maitreyi "mitt" Gupta, and V "Venkat" Cat.

Flavour: General

Attended by: about 10 teams

Format: Elims 30 qs, Finals 15 (IR + infinite pounce) + 6 (Mind of a quizzer round) + 15 (IR + infinite pounce) = 36 qs
Elims highest: J. Ramanand & Samridh Kapur - 19.5

Elims cut-off : 9 (7 for draft)

Results:

1st: J. Ramanand, Samridh Kapur, Avaneendra Bhargava (draft) - 140

2nd: Kunal Sawardekar (left halfway), Suraj Prabhu, Dinesh (draft) & Mayuri (draft) - 120

3rd: Anurakshat Gupta & Kshitij Jyoti - 115

4th: Aditya Pawar, Ayush Agrawal, Anubhav Chatterjee (draft) - 90

5th: Alok Singh, Daipayan Roy, Neil Sarkar (draft) - 60

6th: Saahil Singh, Kiran Sai(?), Vivek Dubey + 1 - 40




Despite the lack of glaciers, this was an excellent quiz. I particularly enjoyed the prelims: wide variety of topics, interestingly framed, and trademark good-bad-useful puns from Abhishek. Once again, given the number of participants, everybody was pooled into the finals. The finals too had several interesting questions and topics (there is an embargo on discussing specifics as Abhishek may run this quiz at KQA later).

The middle specialities round was a bit of an inconsistent set, and clearly betrayed its 4 am origins. There was the odd confusion at some points of the quiz. But overall, the quiz gets a "laal salaam". The only issue: the absence of VCat from most of the finals, which left many in the audience disappointed.

BCQC October Open Quizzes 2013: "M" - Music, Military and More Report

Set and Conducted by: Ayush Agrawal

Format:
30 written questions on Music, the Military and some other topics whose names begin with the thirteenth letter of the alphabet.

Results:
1st: Abhishek Upadhya and Kunal Sawardekar - 23.5 pts
Jt. 2nd: Samridh Kapur and Aditya Pawar - 17 pts
Jt. 2nd: Anurakshat Gupta and Kshitij Jyoti - 17 pts

A very enjoyable start to the quizzing day. I especially liked the military section of the quiz (as much of a shock that may be to many of you) which, in spite of an audience with quite a bit of exposure to the military milieu, educated as well as entertained us. The other "M"s were a teensy-weensy bit on the easy side but also enjoyable and workable. My one crib was with the multiple-answer questions - but those seem to have become a cultural phenomenon as ubiquitous and irrepressible (no matter how much one tries to repress it) as twerking.

Got something to say / add? Please feel free to have a go in the comments.

Chakravyuh 2013 - Report

The Chakravyuh Open Quiz - A part of COEP's MindSpark 2012

Set by Vibhav Bhave, Rohan Danait and others 
Conducted by: Vibhav Bhave

Attended by ~100 teams

Format: Written elims of 30 questions. Finals comprising 36 questions on IR (with 3 pounces per half) and one LVC

Results:
1st: Meghashaym Shirodkar and Amit Garde: 150 pts
2nd: Kunal Sawardekar and Avaneendra Bhargav: 145 pts
3rd: J Ramanand and BV Harish Kumar: 135 pts
4th: Aditya Gadre and Aniket Khasgiwale: 115 pts
5th: Shrirang Raddi and Ankush: 105 pts
6th: Abhishek Upadhya and Debanjan Bose: 100 pts

This edition of Chakravyuh was certainly more "quizzer friendly" than last year with more mainstream (perhaps some would say "normal") questions. 

The elims were largely simple and very high scoring with the top score being 27.5/30  and the cut off being 22. Vcat & Rohan and Saikat & Kshitij were unlucky to miss out on the tie break. The elims were quite good with a reasonable range of topics covered and accessible answers. A few cribs about the elims were more in terms of execution than the question themselves - there were questions which were incomplete on the slide and needed supplementary information from the QM which led to a lot of confusion. Also the star marked questions weren't, well, actually marked in the ppt leading to unnecessary attention from the QM being devoted to informing the star questions. 

Coming to the finals, one consistent crib was that the quiz was far too simple. The questions themselves may not have been all that simple, but the fact that there were a lot of peters certainly made them easy. And given the easiness of the questions, only 3 pounces meant that seating position had something to do with your final score. While there were some good questions but the same spread seen in the elims was not replicated in the finals - the first half was almost 50% a business quiz. The biggest crib I have about the content however is the sheer number peters - with so many of them the passing round becomes a game of luck especially with all finalists being established quizzers. 

The other major crib was in terms of execution - there was an occasion where a question had to be scrapped because it was not complete on the slide and one occasion where the dreaded finger of god made its appearance and effectively cost Kunal and Avaneendra the quiz. 

A lot of these cribs can be attributed to inexperience with Vibhav conducting his first quiz at this level. Perhaps going forward, college quiz setters should be more proactive in reaching out to BC alumni in ensuring that at least the repeats are kept to a minimum. 

Coming to other aspects, the quiz was fun with the teams indulging in typical BC banter and  occasional goodnatured trolling. By pure history, this was one of the strongest fields ever with 7 of the 12 finalists on stage being former Chakravyuh winners. The quiz also saw the return to the circuit for one of BCQC's founders Shrirang Raddi (and he made it seem like he had never left). 

Meghashyam and Amit went into the last question of the quiz trailing by 5 points and answered it to pull off a dramatic victory. 

Congrats are especially due to Amit as this victory now makes him a three-time Chakravyuh winner - more than anyone else. 

Winners list so far:
2001: Shrirang Raddi and Amalesh Mishra
2002: Shrirang Raddi and Amalesh Mishra
2003: Niranjan Pedanekar and Samrat Sengupta
2004: Gaurav Sabnis and Neeraj Sane
2005: Sudarshan Purohit and Amit Garde
2006: Gaurav Sabnis & Shamanth Rao
2007 (Apr): Kunal Sawardekar and Shamanth Rao
2007 (Oct): Avinash Mudaliar and Harikrishnan Menon
2008: J. Ramanand and B.V.Harish Kumar
2009: Anand Sivashankar and Amit Garde
2010: J. Ramanand and B.V.Harish Kumar
2011: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Yash Marathe
2012: Kunal Sawardekar and Avaneendra Bhargav
2013: Meghashyam Shirodkar and Amit Garde

Announcement: The BCQC October Open Quizzes 2013

On Sunday, the 6th of October, 2013 - we conduct two open quizzes. 

Quiz I: "M"

Time: 11:00 am
Flavour:  Music, Millitary, Mysteries and "More"
QM: Ayush Agrawal
Teams: Teams of two.
Format: This is a written quiz (~35 questions)- so please bring a writing instrument.

Quiz II: Quizowski

                                

Time: 2:00 pm
Flavour: General 
QMs: Abhishek Upadhya, Maitreyi Gupta and Venkat Srinivasan
Teams: Teams of two.
Format: Written elims followed by finals for the top 9 teams

Venue:
The venue for both the quizzes will be Extentia Information Technology, Nilanjali Housing Colony, Kalyani Nagar, Pune. You can put this in to google maps to figure out the exact location. 

Basic Directions: Come onto North main road in Koregaon park - turn onto the bridge towards adlabs - go straight past adlabs and take a left when you see the Bounty Hotel on your left, enter lane no 12 and go the end of the lane, Extentia should be on your right. 

BCQC September Open Quizzes 2013: Quiz Vuiz Tey Question Purana - Report

Quiz Vuiz Tey Question Purana

Set and Conducted by Samrat Sengupta

Format:
Written elims of 20 question with the teams getting points in the final to start off depending on elim standings
Final of 18 questions on Infinite Rebounds, 18 questions on 6 Speciality topics (6 x 3), 2 List its and 6 questions on differential scoring.


Standings:

1st: Team F: Kunal Sawardekar, Aditya Gadre and Aditya Karve : 161 points
2nd: Team B: J Ramanand, Tadatmya and Anubhav Chatterjee: 151 points
3rd: Team D: Ayush Agarwal, Aditya Pawar and Alok : 108 points
4th: Team A: Venkat Srinivasan, Rohan Jain, Abhishek Upadhya and Ameya: 82 points
5th: Team C: Suraj Prabhu, Venkat and Samridh: 66 points
6th: Team E: Alok Singh, Daipayan Roy, Maitreyi Gupta: 50 points


9 teams showed up, so the elims were more of a means of deciding who gets the starting advantage rather than actual eliminations. After the rather low scoring elims (Top two scores were only 9.5 and 8.5 with most other teams bunched at around 4 points), Teams B and F finished in the top 2 positions to start with a 20 point advantage and teams D and E started with a 10 point advantage.

Samrat's quiz lived up to its name - in that it was truly a mixture of old and new elements of quizzing. This meant no pounce, specialty round and inclusion of a differential scoring round and a list it.

Cribs:
- In terms of pure fairness, the quiz did seem to lack a bit especially since the questions in the IR round ranged from St. Peter (taking the 'Question Purana' part of the name a bit too seriously perhaps :P ) to Succulent Karoo and, in this case, not having enough questions to smooth over the peaks and troughs, seating position did affect standings.
- Some issues with the age old question of multi-pronged questions and their part marking
- A lot of the questions, while certainly very interesting, seemed a bit "knowledge" based and hence may not have been the most friendly environment for some of the newer quizzers. Will also slip in here that I am not a fan of list-its. Quizzing is not about memorizing lists IMO.

Positives:
- The quiz was truly a throwback to several years ago with Sammy Sir at his entertaining best
- Extremely fun to take part in with constant banter, puns and jokes
- Some very new areas explored which are not usually seen in Pune quizzes
- I personally thought the elims were very good - a nice mix of topics. Tough, but interesting.


As for the actual quiz results, Team B led Team F for most of the quiz by a narrow margin before pulling away with a significant 30 point lead before the final round of 9 IR quesitons. Sadly for Team B luck favoured Team F with most of the questions in the final round being on their pet topics and Team F pulled off an unlikely comeback to win on the last question of the quiz.

Please share your views / feedback in the comments section

BCQC September Open Quizzes 2013: The Pub Quiz - Report

The Pub Quiz

Set and Conducted by Aditya Gadre

Format: A written quiz of 41 questions with a total of 44 poitns to score on th topics of Food, Alcohol and Pop Music

Results:
1st: Venkat Srinivasan and Rohan Jain: 18 points
2nd: Samrat Sengupta and Maitreyi Gupta: 12 points


Overall the quiz was low scoring (I expected the scores to be more in the 15-20 range).

That said, the quiz was remarkably even with almost all the teams in the 11-12 range - with Samrat and Maitreyi just making it past to get second place. Vcat and Rohan were in great form and were miles ahead on 18.

Please leave your feedback in the comments section. 

Mindspark 2013 quizzes: Chakravyuuh, Torquest, Quonoisseur

The College of Engineering, Pune will be organizing three quizzes as a part of its technical festival MindSpark'13. The quizzes are spread over three days - September 27th, 28th and 29th

1. Torquest - The Science and Technology Quiz
College Quiz
Date: 27th September (Friday)
Contact: Omkar Yarguddi +91 78751 50078

2. Chakravyuh - The General Quiz
Open Quiz
Date: 28th September (Saturday)
Contact: Vibhav Bhave +91 99224 12867

3. Quonoisseur - The MELA Quiz
College Quiz
Date: 29th September (Sunday)
Contact: Rujul Godse: +91 98500 86949


For any other general queries please contact: Rohan Danait: +91 98505 53038 or visit our website

Announcement: The BCQC September Open Quizzes

On Sunday, the 22th of September, 2013 - we conduct two open quizzes. 

Quiz I: The Pub Quiz

Time: 10:30 am
Flavour:  Food, Alcohol and Popular Music
Teams: Teams of two.
Format: This is a written quiz (~35 questions)- so please bring a writing instrument.

Quiz II: Quiz Vuiz Tey Question Purana

                                   

Time: 1:30 pm
Flavour: General 
Teams: Teams of two.
Format: Written elims followed by finals for the top 9 teams

Venue:
The venue for both the quizzes will be Extentia Information Technology, Nilanjali Housing Colony, Kalyani Nagar, Pune. You can put this in to google maps to figure out the exact location. 

Basic Directions: Come onto North main road in Koregaon park - turn onto the bridge towards adlabs - go straight past adlabs and take a left when you see the Bounty Hotel on your left, enter lane no 12 and go the end of the lane, Extentia should be on your right.