Twenty Paces - Final Results

Quarterfinals:
Anant Lawande beat Valmiki Naik (7 to 4)
Aniruddha Sen Gupta beat Leroy Veloso (8 to -1)
Adish Talwadker beat Anurag Panicker (5 to 1)
Paul Gatward beat Anjali Sen Gupta (5 to 4)

Semifinals:
Adish Talwadker beat Anant Lawande (6 to 3)
Aniruddha Sen Gupta beat Paul Gatward (10 to 1)

Final:
Aniruddha Sen Gupta beat Adish Talwadker (8 to -1)

Thus endeth what was by all accounts a hugely enjoyable tournament. To nobody's surprise, Annie was the Last Quizzer Standing. Here's a picture of him doing the standing.

More on the Women's Day quizzes

Following some feedback, there's been a relaxation of the one-female-per-team rule: in the Schools edition, if yours is a boys-only school, you have the choice of participating as an all-boys team, or of adding on a female student from a different school.

The original posting about the Women's Day quizzes, in case you haven't seen that, is here. The rule has been amended on that post as well.

SEQCm February Quiz

Date: 26th February, 2011
Time: 5.00 pm
Flavour: General
QM: Dr V.R.Muralidharan
Venue: Urban Health Centre, Margao. opp Hospicio Hospital
Participation: Open to all

Environment Quiz

Date: February 25, 2011
Time: 2 pm
QM: Annie Sen Gupta
Flavour: Environment
Venue: Holy Cross School, Bastora
Who can participate: This is a closed event, specifically for students of Holy Cross Schools around India, to mark the 75th anniversary of the first such school.

Tata Crucible Campus - Goa Results

Its been a while since one witnessed so much drama at a quiz. The BITS team of Anand Shankar & Varun M. came back from the brink of elimination to win their maiden TC title, putting up a virtuoso quizzing as well as dramatic performance that was thoroughly entertaining if you were in the audience. Every emotion known to man, and then some, were on show that evening. Throw your mind back to Sushmita Sen's memorable display of pure exhiliration when she won the Miss Universe crown in God-knows-when. Then imagine that she had burst into tears during the Swimsuit round, jumped up and down when she made the first cut, flopped dejectedly on stage during the evening gown round and then gone on to credit Miss USA for her victory, and you will then begin to get a rough idea of the kind of evening Anand Shankar had. Just for that, he deserves every smacker of the 75k he and his teammate won.

Ist: Anand Shankar & Varun M. (BITS, Zuarinagar)
2nd: Adish Talwadker & Anant Lawande (GMC, Bambolim)
3rd: Ajay Parasuraman & Sunil Thomas (BITS, Zuarinagar)
4th: Pankaj & Shoiab (BIM, Belgaum)
5th: Jaspreet & Puneet (GIM, Sanquelim)
6th: Servesh & Samved (GIM, Sanquelim)