A Grand Ending to a Great Season

On March 22, 2009, the third season of the Bombay Quiz Club draws to a close. Anannya Deb will conduct. The league standings are here, but there isn't really much at stake -- unless you're speaking of abstract notions like pride, and honour, and the respect of your beer-sozzled peers. Come and partake. The details:

QM: Anannya Deb

Time: 3 pm, Sunday, March 22, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)

Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).

Directions:

From the south: If you come north on Linking Road from Bandra to SantaCruz, you'll find a large Benetton Store on the right. At the end of that block is a Kotak Bank at the corner. Take a right and it's the next building, take the first gate and tell the sentry you've come for the quiz.

From the north: If you get on to Linking Road at the airplane park end, you'll cross a HDFC Bank. A block later, you'll see a Kotak Bank on the corner - do not cross it. Take a left at that point and it's the building next to Kotak Bank.

Five-in-one quiz report

Right, after immense and inexcusable tardiness, this post combines five quiz reports in one. Four of them are regular BQC quizzes, and one is a lit quiz conducted for the Kala Ghoda fest. In BQC quizzes, members of the top three teams get 10, 7 and 4 points respectively. In open quizzes with elims and finals, the non-placing finalists get two points each.

In the delay in posting these results, some records were damaged (or maliciously done away with; who can tell?). As a result, some results are incomplete, and we shall fill them in later as news filters in. Until then, here's what we have:

BQC Jan 25 -- conducted by Souvik Basu
1st Amit Varma, Sajith Pai, Udatta Duarah + 1, 2nd Unknown as of now, 3rd Sumit Roy, Kaustuv Gupta + 2

BQC Feb 8 -- conducted by Mukund Sridhar and Atulya Bharadwaj
1st Pradeep Ramarathnam, Souvik Basu, Sarat Rao, 2nd Vibhendu Tiwari, Shiv Anant Tayal, Bikash Mohapatra, 3rd Sumit Roy, Govind Grewal, Arvind Krishnaswamy

Kala Ghoda Lit quiz -- conducted by Sumant Srivathsan
1st Mahesh Murthy and S Balakrishnan, 2nd Anand Sivasankar and Ajith Prabhakar, 3rd Girish Shahane + 1, Other finalists Govind Grewal and Shambhu Shankar, Amit Varma and Arvind Krishnaswamy.

BQC Feb 22 -- conducted by Pradeep Ramarathnam and Atul Mathew
1st Rajiv Rai, Atulya Bharadwaj, Rohit Ajitkumar, 2nd Vibhendu Tiwari, Brian D'Souza, Roshith, 3rd (tied) Sumant Srivathsan, Vijay Shankar + 1, 3rd (tied) Ajith Prabhakar, Devang Ghia, Kaustuv Gupta

BQC March 8 -- conducted by Amit Varma
1st Sumant Srivathsan, Kaustuv Gupta, Bikash Mohapatra, 2nd Rajiv Rai, Shiv Anant Tayal, Meher Sridhar, Rahul Gaur, 3rd Anannya Deb, Atulya Bharadwaj, Barun Chakravarti.

And now for the league standings:

BQC Season three Standings (from 24 quizzes, as of March 8, 2009)

124 points
Rajiv Rai

82 points
Sumant Srivathsan

61 points
Vibhendu Tiwari

58 points
Udatta Duarah

54.5 points
Amit Varma

53.5 points
Aadisht Khanna

48 points
Atul Mathew

45 points
Ajith Prabhakar
Sumit Roy

44 points
Kaustuv Gupta

42.5 points
Rishi Iyengar

41.5 points
Pradeep Ramarathnam

40 points
Ameya Samant
Sajith Pai

39 points
Atulya Bharadwaj

37 points
Rohit Ajitkumar

36 points
Souvik Basu

35 points
Sandip Sen

34 points
Bikash Mohapatra
Govind Grewal

33.5 points
Anannya Deb

32.5 points
Francis Rodrigues

32 points
Brian D'Souza
S Balakrishnan

29 points
Anand Sivasankar

27 points
Mahesh Murthy
Shrikant Narasimhan

26.5 points
Prasann Potdar

24 points
Kedar Sastry
Vijay Shankar

22 points
Amit Pandeya

21.5 points
Sarat Rao

18 points
Shiv Anant Tayal

17 points
Avinash Mudaliar
Mukund Sridhar
Rahul Gaur

15.5 points
Akash Bansal

15 points
Devang Ghia

14 points
Akanksha Mathur
Mitul Kodali

12 points
Sireesh Talluri Rao

11 points
Ravi Venkatesh

10 points
Amit Sharma
Arvind Krishnaswamy
Dhananjay Shettigar
Kashyap Pandeya
Phani Prasad
Rushi Bhavsar
Sandeep Rajpurohit
Srini Rajagopal

9 points
Mukund Krishnan

8 Points
Manish Mishra

7 points
Ajay Ravindran
Arjun Swarup
Avinash Umapathy
Kaustubh Chakravarti
Meher Sridhar
Nandan Krishnaswamy
Norbert Fernandes
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Rahul Bhaskar
Roshith
Shreya
V Sreeharsha

5.5 points
Janardhan R
Leo Mirani
Nrupal Chaudhari
Rasik Tirodkar
Vikram Joshi

4 points
Barun Chakrabarti
Gopal Kidao
Mithun Srivatsa
Neelabh
Rajendra Parmar
Supriyo Saha
Vijay Chittoor
Vikas Sahu

2 points
Shambhu Shankar

The last quiz of this BQC season will be conducted by Anannya Deb on Sunday, March 22. More details on this blog in a few minutes.

The March Quiz

There are two more quizzes to go in the BQC's third season, and the penultimate one takes place this Sunday. Details:

QM: Amit Varma

Time: 3 pm, Sunday, March 8, 2009 (Please be there by 2:40 pm.)

Venue: Pinstorm, Ground Floor, Swati House (Next to Kotak Bank on Linking Road), North Avenue, Santa Cruz (W).

Directions:

From the south: If you come north on Linking Road from Bandra to SantaCruz, you'll find a large Benetton Store on the right. At the end of that block is a Kotak Bank at the corner. Take a right and it's the next building, take the first gate and tell the sentry you've come for the quiz.

From the north: If you get on to Linking Road at the airplane park end, you'll cross a HDFC Bank. A block later, you'll see a Kotak Bank on the corner - do not cross it. Take a left at that point and it's the building next to Kotak Bank.

Yes, I know -- the results of the last four quizzes haven't been published here yet, and I am solely to blame for that. I shall wait till this one is over now and publish the results of all five together. Many apologies for the delay. As for the standings, very briefly, Rajiv Rai has now sealed first place, Sumant Srivathsan has sealed second place, and Vibhendu Tiwari is, I think, half a point ahead of me (Amit Varma) for third. And as I'm not taking part in this next quiz, by virtue of being QM, you can consider that place settled as well. The war is over -- two fun battles remain!