"Not just the Record number of teams that participated in TATA crucible's debut at kovai, but the quality of quizzing has sent out a strong message - Coimbatore is shaping up into a "powerhouse of Biz Quizzing"!
And With TATA crucible debuting @ kovai(Record no of turn-out for a debut city!!!-->240Teams), it presented an entirely new scenario!! Local colleges in Coimbatore(PSG, GRD, KCT, amirta...) got a chance to take on the might of IIM-K & BIM-Trichy who were the favourites to win the Quiz!!!
Results:
Winners - GRD college - Mohamed & Vishal
Runners - IIM-K (We heard it's their 1st loss in their quizzin career?!!)
Other Finalists - PSGIM, Amirta, PSG Tech & BIM-Trichy
Special Mention - KCT team & the 2gals(ET- trichy winners)from Cauvery College, trichy who put up a good show in the Wild Card Round.
But for the technical/logistical glitch (as claimed by Giri himself) the result could have been otherwise(Could have been a twin victory for Kovai on debut @ home)! And the whole crowd at the show knows it!!! We were particularly unhappy with the IIM team from Kozhikode participating in Coimbatore(rather than Kochi) leg of the Quiz!!
This we feel, defeats the primary objective of the Tata's - "to take its quiz to smaller cities and give teams from such cities some representation at the national level". If IIM's can keep travelling to every other venue by getting some special permissions... even a 20 location Quiz wouldn't make any difference.
Look at the volume of teams that turned up at the Kovai round - 240!! That includes Teams from the entire western, central & southern Tamil Nadu plus we were forced to play gracious hosts to IIM-K and a few more teams from Chennai as well! Teams had to take up the prelims standing and were asked to look at innovative ways to write on the Answer sheet standing!(This could be an another record - Bad Choice of venue!)
Atleast, they could have arranged for an annex where the prelim could have been conducted simultaeneously.
Giri seems to be consistent in under-estimating coimbatore's quizzing potential. This is evident from the prelims of both the recently conducted ET & TATA Crucible Quizzes!
But, finally everyone, we guess...went back home - Happy!!!
After all the GRD - the wild-card entrants, the under-dogs...won! - perfectly matching the flavour of the season! Jai HO!!!
Let's all Cheer the Coimbatore Champs at the National Final!
-Happy Quizzin!
PSG IM Quiz Club
6 comments:
hai
gud work ritu and his team mate.Hope u guys gonna rock in the forth comin corporate quizzes.I m from pondy univ gearing up for chennai edition.ur postings are really useful.Thanks dudes.
Jayanthan
Well IIM's coming to coimbatore is ok.But still we could have won it wid ease and yea it wasnt our day!
UnderDogs GRD came in and did well!
I was totally down after those IIM guys gave two answers for the same Clue and the so called Pick Brain dint even bother about it, thats bad! And i felt very bad for Vasanth too. Im sure he would have scored 17 and missed it very badly!
Hopefully as GIRI promised, he Should call Vasanth for the chennai or Bangalore round! Lets hope for the best and wishing all my mates GOOD LUCK!
Cheers,
Arvind!
Hi ppl,
I completely agree with you on the prelims bit! There is also no doubt about Coimbatore's quizzing potential...this city is certainly emerging as a major quizzing destination. And I'd also like to thank all you guys for your wishes...hope to make CBE proud in the National final!
-- Vishal Vignesh B.
It is extremely disheartening to c q's lik "blue ribbon sports company" bein asked in a coveted quiz like TC , tat too for 15 points. Every1 knws that most winning teams score jus between 30-50 on an average in crucible given its short format. greycaps has massively let down cbe n the tata's. To jus throw of Rs 1lakh on a quiz which cant boast of primary standards is insultin to coimbatore quizzin . Hey v r better that that.. n even more disappointin is the stand taken by the iim-k guys over the debated q. anyway at the end of the day thewinners made their kill, n the other teams n the audience took a hike...
There was a reference to the IIM team not having lost in any other quiz and the TC coimbatore being their first defeat....FYI last they came to chennai for TC and they lost out in the semi finals!!!!!!!
was it the same team?? or the ones who made it the acumen finals that yr?? that was a good team , if m nt wrong...
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