Pinstorm at the BQC

Pinstorm isn't just where BQC quizzes are held, they also provide some of its star quizzers. Mahesh Murthy, their big boss, took part in his second BQC quiz this season a few hours ago, and notched up his second win. In the process his teammate and Pinstorm colleague, Ashwan Lewis, shot to the top of the BQC League standings. At this rate, the Pinstorm boys will own this place in more ways than one!

Arvind Krishnaswamy and Tanmay Sharma conducted the quiz, in which 31 quizzers, spread across eight teams, took part. Mahesh's team, in which he was accompanied by Ashwan, Anand Sivasankar and Aravinda Talluri, dominated from start to finish, and won by a massive margin. The results are below, and then the standings:

1st with 29 points
Mahesh Murthy
Anand Sivasankar
Ashwan Lewis
Aravinda Talluri

2nd with 20 points
Rajiv Rai
Amit Varma
Ameya Samant

3rd with 19 points
Rishi Iyengar
Sumant Srivathsan
Ajay Ravindran
Pranav Kukreja

4th-5th with 16 points
AP Alagarsamy
Govind Grewal
Nandan Krishnaswamy
C Ram Shankar

Avinash Mudaliar
Raghu Gopalan
Kedar Sastry
Ajith Prabhakar

The other teams
Amit Pandeya
Vibhendu Tiwari
Sireesh Rao
Praveen Mohan

Dhananjay Shettigar
Francis Rodrigues
Devang Ghia
Sushant Raut

Nirad Inamdar
Hanisha Vaswani
Nrupal Chaudhary
Shambhu Shankar

And here come the standings, after four quizzes this season:

BQC Season Two Standings (as of June 17, 2007)

24 points
Ashwan Lewis (from 3 quizzes)

20 points
Mahesh Murthy (2)

17 points
Rajiv Rai (2)
Anand Sivasankar (3)
Prasann Potdar (3)

14 points
Amit Varma (2)

11 points
Dhananjay Shettigar (4)

10 points
AP Alagarsamy (3)
Amit Pandeya (4)
Kartik Srivatsa (1)
Tanmay Sharma (2)
Ajith Prabhakar (2)
Avinash Mudaliar (2)
Aravinda Talluri (1)

8 points
Vibhendu Tiwari (3)
Govind Grewal (3)

7 points
Meghashyam Shirodkar (1)
Pradeep Ramarathnam (2)
Ameya Samant (3)
Akshay Mahajan (1)

4 points
Sumant Srivathsan (1)
Rishi Iyengar (2)
Samrat Sengupta (1)
Francis Rodrigues (2)
Hanisha Vaswani (3)
Ajay Ravindran (1)
Padma Sinha (2)
Sushant Raut (3)
Pranav Kukreja (1)

The next quiz is on July 1. More details will be put up on this blog shortly, watch this space.