I hadn't participated in an open quiz in quite a while (the better part of a decade, if I remember correctly). My friend Ananth used to take me to various quizzes organised by the KQA while he was here in Bangalore. It was fairly intimidating, to say the least - questions that would stump me would turn out to be "sitters" for everyone else. Teams like "We Are Like This Wonly" and "Metaquizziks" would be leagues ahead of the rest and almost all finals would be a contest among these top teams - it is amazing that even after all these years, they still seem to reign supreme - "We Are Like This Wonly" won the finals yesterday.
The quizzes seem to be much bigger now - there's a fair amount of money involved these days and a much larger participation from people. There were about 370 three-person teams taking part yesterday while the Chennai edition of the quiz apparently had more than 700 such teams (which was actually a step down from the 916 that took part in 2004). The quiz was conducted by Navin Jayakumar and was fairly slick. There was no entry fee and snacks were free courtesy the sponsors. The auditorium (St John's Auditorium, Koramangala) was large enough for the teams as well as the audience.
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So great that you attended Landmark this year :)!. I know it can be intimidating (what with Metaquizzicks and WALTO talking about answers as if they're something everyone should know :))! But Navin Jaykumar is awesome and they really try to make the prelims as inclusive as possible. I hope this has got you interested enough to go every year. Did Anush come too?
ReplyDeleteSuchi, this was in 2009. :-) Yes, Anusha did come to
ReplyDeletewatch us hapless souls struggling to find the right
answers. I missed this in 2010, but will try to make
it this year, if I can help it.