Mega-Whats 2011–Acknowledgments
250 teams sat for Mega-Whats across 13 cities this year. We are still awaiting couriers from a couple of cities and so are able to announce only a list of the top 80 teams. This will be updated to become the top 100 as soon as the delayed couriers arrive.
Our thanks go out to QFI-Chennai, K-Circle and HQC, Hyderabad, BCQC in Pune, BQC in Mumbai, Kutub Quizzers in New Delhi, SEQC in Goa, CQC in Coimbatore, and to the quizzing communities in Kolkata, Guwahati, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram and Mysore for organising venues and prizes.
Thanks to all our proctors for kindly volunteering to put their faces, and voices, to our questions (always a high-risk job) –Siby Kuriakose in Panaji, Prof. Vijayakumar in Thiruvananthapuram, Dr. Vijayanath in Thrissur, Rudradeep Bhattacharjee in Kolkata, Dilip Sarma in Guwahati, Yaggy and Krishnan in Mumbai, Kaustuba Venugopal and Ram Narayan in New Delhi, Varun Shenoy in Mysore, Mr. Devarajan in Hyderabad, and a special word of thanks to two people who stepped in at the last minute to proctor, thereby saving us much bother and embarrassment–Ms. Nithya in Coimbatore, and Gaurav Keskar in Pune.
This is perhaps the best place to acknowledge the hard work put in by several KQA guys. Ashwan Lewis, who set up a trouble-free interface for registrations and took that headache off our shoulders, the team of Navin Rajaram, Landmark Venky, Hrishi Varma and Ashwan who kept in touch with other cities, and Appu, DD and Mitesh for organising the Bangalore venue and dealing with registrations on the day.
The Mega-Whats Face-off will occur during the KQA Anniversary in June 2012 and will feature the winners from each of the 13 cities. The three other places in the semi-finals will go to the first three teams that achieved high scores and a place in the top 15 without actually winning a city. These teams are Insignificant Others (78/Chennai), We Are Like This Wonly (75/Bangalore) and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (70/New Delhi). A limited ranking list is up at TOP 80 MW2011
The next edition of Mega-Whats, in December 2012, will be set by Kiran Vijayakumar and Arun Hiregange.
Best!
Arul Mani
