The Drama was enthralling but ended with a win in TATA Crucible Quiz @ Ranchi Campus Edition
The stage was set for a complete showdown. NIT-R , the defending champs Nishant and Wasim the favorites to win the quiz given their preparation and hard work. VSSUT , the runner up team from last year, Bivash and Sanket looking to make amends. Debashish and Prathamesh all set to test the Ranchi pitch as Debashish returns to biz quizzing after a long break. IIM Ranchi shaping up to drive off the outstation teams and establish native supremacy along with BITS, XISS. The prelims question were a bit on the tougher side for a city like Ranchi but as Giri justified his set stating Ranchi always had good teams and Giri wasn't proved wrong for what a ride the quiz turned out to be.
The wild card entrants saw the previous years winners and runners up face to face. Nerve testing procedure had already started. The top finishers proved their mettle and answered on the buzzer Oberoi Hotel, Plain Vanilla Quiz up and Western Union Money Transfer patent of Happy Birthday to you to compensate a somewhat shaky performance in the prelims.
The finals started with NITR team of Nishant and Wasim placed at table6 gaining on the first question and then losing all points within a matter of minutes. This trend followed Table6 and at the end of the day played a decisive role in the quiz.
At table 2 IIM Ranchi worked out some good guesses and piled up their scores at the end to 135. Meanwhile at table 4 Debashish Pradhan and team also made a strong contention with some great cracks like identifying Akshaya Patra and connecting Raghuram Rajan to Booth School.
At one point in the quiz VSSUT had a comfortable lead at 175 but they squandered it with some rash ones on the buzzer.
Coming to rashness Table6 NIT R team of Nishant and Wasim played aggressive and perhaps a bit too aggressively.
They lost and gained points throughout the quiz and answered more questions than anyone else. Had it not been for the negatives they took they could have finished at a score nearing 400, an unassailable total.
At the last question IIM Ranchi were perched the top of the leader board and were closely tailed by Table6, Nishant and Wasim. Followed by Table 4 with Debashish and then Vssut at 4th rank.
The last question appeared on the screen and Table 6 pounced on their chance,everyone waited to congratulate them again for their bumpy win with bated breath. The wait indicated something was wrong and the look on Table6 was of despair. Finally Giri killed the first chance n awarded them a negative 75 which was the value of the question.
No sooner than the negative was awarded that Vssut pressed the buzzer and all the focus shifted on to the team which had already been written off. With a plus 60( on a second chance on buzzer the value of a question decreases to a prefixed value in the current format) the tally of Vssut would have reached from 65 to 125 which would have been still short of IIM Ranchi's cozy score of 135. As Bivash started the answer, Giri went to the stage to add on to the drama of the moment and then Sanket did a quick math to figure out they are not going to clinch the title and reminded his partner of the power play which increases the value of a 75 point question to a 85 pointer. 65+85=150 and that's what they finished on.
Answering the last question on the second chance VSSUT dislodged IIM from the top spot and for the first time in the decade old history of TATA CRUCIBLE carried the laurels from the homeland of Birsa Munda to the homeland of Veer Surendra Sai.
Just transferring my memory into a half cooked ,half framed questioned(Giri & team framed it better and nicely) as follows...
Last question was to identify a pic in which Namo was holding a coin which is minted to commemorate Jamsetji Tata and yesterday was jamsetji Tata bday Alive brand of perfumes by Arjun rampal Question on Tata partnership with akshaya patra
Yours Truly,
Bivash Rath
The Champion of Crucible Ranchi edition 2015
Started from where we left last year & we did it
Dekhojee...yeh sab mile huyein hein...
The OQA Confluence with the QM
The stage was set for a complete showdown. NIT-R , the defending champs Nishant and Wasim the favorites to win the quiz given their preparation and hard work. VSSUT , the runner up team from last year, Bivash and Sanket looking to make amends. Debashish and Prathamesh all set to test the Ranchi pitch as Debashish returns to biz quizzing after a long break. IIM Ranchi shaping up to drive off the outstation teams and establish native supremacy along with BITS, XISS. The prelims question were a bit on the tougher side for a city like Ranchi but as Giri justified his set stating Ranchi always had good teams and Giri wasn't proved wrong for what a ride the quiz turned out to be.
The wild card entrants saw the previous years winners and runners up face to face. Nerve testing procedure had already started. The top finishers proved their mettle and answered on the buzzer Oberoi Hotel, Plain Vanilla Quiz up and Western Union Money Transfer patent of Happy Birthday to you to compensate a somewhat shaky performance in the prelims.
The finals started with NITR team of Nishant and Wasim placed at table6 gaining on the first question and then losing all points within a matter of minutes. This trend followed Table6 and at the end of the day played a decisive role in the quiz.
At table 2 IIM Ranchi worked out some good guesses and piled up their scores at the end to 135. Meanwhile at table 4 Debashish Pradhan and team also made a strong contention with some great cracks like identifying Akshaya Patra and connecting Raghuram Rajan to Booth School.
At one point in the quiz VSSUT had a comfortable lead at 175 but they squandered it with some rash ones on the buzzer.
Coming to rashness Table6 NIT R team of Nishant and Wasim played aggressive and perhaps a bit too aggressively.
They lost and gained points throughout the quiz and answered more questions than anyone else. Had it not been for the negatives they took they could have finished at a score nearing 400, an unassailable total.
At the last question IIM Ranchi were perched the top of the leader board and were closely tailed by Table6, Nishant and Wasim. Followed by Table 4 with Debashish and then Vssut at 4th rank.
The last question appeared on the screen and Table 6 pounced on their chance,everyone waited to congratulate them again for their bumpy win with bated breath. The wait indicated something was wrong and the look on Table6 was of despair. Finally Giri killed the first chance n awarded them a negative 75 which was the value of the question.
No sooner than the negative was awarded that Vssut pressed the buzzer and all the focus shifted on to the team which had already been written off. With a plus 60( on a second chance on buzzer the value of a question decreases to a prefixed value in the current format) the tally of Vssut would have reached from 65 to 125 which would have been still short of IIM Ranchi's cozy score of 135. As Bivash started the answer, Giri went to the stage to add on to the drama of the moment and then Sanket did a quick math to figure out they are not going to clinch the title and reminded his partner of the power play which increases the value of a 75 point question to a 85 pointer. 65+85=150 and that's what they finished on.
Answering the last question on the second chance VSSUT dislodged IIM from the top spot and for the first time in the decade old history of TATA CRUCIBLE carried the laurels from the homeland of Birsa Munda to the homeland of Veer Surendra Sai.
Just transferring my memory into a half cooked ,half framed questioned(Giri & team framed it better and nicely) as follows...
- Identity pic of worlds richest woman that Walton
- Id pic kokilaben ambani with jaya bachhacn
- Id pic of rk laxman
- Connect booth school inside man to raghuram rajan
- Connect sbi ad old logo of sbi and arundhati Bhattacharya to sbi
Last question was to identify a pic in which Namo was holding a coin which is minted to commemorate Jamsetji Tata and yesterday was jamsetji Tata bday Alive brand of perfumes by Arjun rampal Question on Tata partnership with akshaya patra
Yours Truly,
Bivash Rath
The Champion of Crucible Ranchi edition 2015
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