Report on the BCQC April Open 2018

Date: Saturday, 28 April 2018

Quiz: The BCQC April Open 2018

Venue: AFMC, Pune

Fest/Organized by: BCQC

QM(s): Charles Matthew, Pranav ‘Floyd’ Joshi

Flavour: Gen

Results:

1. Team 5 [145 Pts.]: Arnabh Sengupta, Rohan Setlur (AFMC) + Akshay Parale (Draft, COEP)

2. Team 1 [139.5 Pts.]: Aditya Gadre, Ranajeet Soman + Nikhil Nair (Draft, AFMC)

3. Team 2 [120.5 Pts.]: Pranav Pawar, Omkar Dhakephalkar + Aman Shaikh (Draft)

Other Finalists:

Omkar Yarguddi (Solo) + Gokul Panigrahi, Suryadipta Biswas (Drafts)

PavanKumar, Ruturaj (AFMC) + Aditya Lewis (Draft, AFMC)

Kumal Sawardekar, Arnold D’Souza

The quiz set by Pranav 'Floyd' Joshi and Charles Matthew was a fun experience. It had a 25 question Elims followed by a Final with 20 questions on IR, 11 questions Written and 1 List It!

Team 1 started well in the first Written Round but never found their footing in the Infinite Bounce Rounds with Team 2 building a lead. Team 1 made a late surge by cracking the second Written Round but again lost their lead in the second IR Round where Team 5 gave one great answer after another to go into the List It! with a 14.5 pt lead. The List It! heavily favoured Pune locals and Team 1 duly top scored, but couldn't overhaul Team 5's lead.

Positives:

- A very original quiz, very few, if any, Peters

- a lot of very good fundaes

- Questions were light and interesting while covering a wide range of topics

- A lot of nice subtle clues in the questions

Negatives

- Inconsistent scoring - especially in the written rounds

- The framing on quite a few questions was ambiguous. The QM had to provide clarifications on a lot of questions.

- Too few questions on Infinite Bounce

Report by: Aditya Gadre