Results of Mega-Whats 2018

MegaWhats 2018 was attempted by 111 teams in fifteen centres across India, Dubai, and Kuwait. Teams had to try their hand at 76 questions, across two sections, for a maximum score of 100 points.

As before, we are selecting the Top 10 teams from among the city-winners, and the next six highest scoring teams to face-off in the semi-finals to be held at asKQAnce 2018 in Bengaluru.

The highest score in the country, 83 points, was recorded by Aardvarks from New Delhi consisting of Amrit Chetia, Aryapriya Ganguly, Kunal Savarkar, and Rahul S Kottalgi. One other team, QED, from Chennai crossed the 80-points mark, with a score of 81 points.

The Bangalore edition saw an unprecedented tie, which was resolved through sudden-death; BMQJ comprising Ashwin Kumar, EM Bhargava, Santosh Swaminathan, and Varun Rajiv topped the Bangalore edition with 76 points, narrowly edging out the CIDs from Kerala (Krishnamurthi J, Chandrakant Nair, Praveen Kumar VR, and Hrishi Varma) who had the same score. Reigning National Champions, We Are Like This Wonly, were close behind with 75 points. All three teams qualified for the semi-finals.

The city winners from the following ten cities have qualified for the semi-finals:

New Delhi – Aardvarks – 83
Chennai – QED – 81
Bengaluru – BMQJ – 76
Mumbai – Zulfikar-e-Ingit – 75
Kolkata – Hammer and Tongs – 71
Dubai – Sheikh Yerboutis – 68
Goa – Feni, Vidi, Vici – 57
Hyderabad – Swami and Friends – 54
Pune – The Colonels and their Batmen – 47
Thrissur – Tequila Mockingbirds – 44

The next six teams to qualify are:

Insignificant Others – Chennai – 78
Remembrance of Things Fast – Chennai – 76
CIDs from Kerala – Bangalore – 76
We Are Like This Wonly – Bangalore – 75
Travelling Pillsburys – Mumbai – 73
Matunga Manram – Mumbai – 71

All these teams are required to confirm their availability for attending the semi-finals of MegaWhats scheduled on Friday, June 29 at 2 PM. Please send an email before May 31 to venkyiimb@gmail.com confirming your team’s attendance for the same. If any teams drop out, then the team with the next highest score, starting with Memory Blank from Chennai, will be offered their slot.

A team from DPS Noida, calling themselves Sniper Gang #420 No Scope consisting of Ayuj, Bathik, Jaivardhan, and Pranava, recorded the highest score among all school teams with an excellent score of 39 points. A team from IIT Madras calling themselves Better Call Paul comprising Ferril Samal, Gerleo Nimalan, Paul Martin, and Sukruth K topped the college category across India with 48 points.

The Top five scores recorded in Bengaluru included the three teams mentioned in the qualifier lists above; the fourth place was secured by SJC Quizzers with 67 points, while Sridevis and an Extra took fifth place with 61 points. The school team with the highest score was a team comprising Aaditya Kannan (PSBBLLA), Prajwal G (Sri Kumaran’s), and Saishyam Srikanth (Vagdevi Vilas) with 15 points, while Team How2 comprising Dhruv Sriram, Sathvik A, Tejas B, Varun Murthy topped the college track with 39 points.

Our congratulations to all the participants, and to the winners. Many thanks to all the quiz associations, proctors, and others who helped make MegaWhats 2018 city prelims, a success. Hoping to see all of you at asKQAnce 2018 starting June 29, 2018. Detailed scores can be found below.

	MegaWhats 2018 Leaderboard

#	Team	City	Category	Score	Status
1	Aardvarks	New Delhi	Open	83	National Winner (Q)
2	QED	Chennai	Open	81	City Winner (Q)
3	Insignificant Others	Chennai	Open	78	Q
4	BMQJ	Bengaluru	Open	76	City Winner (Q) On tiebreak
5	Remembrance Of Things Fast	Chennai	Open	76	Q
6	CIDs from Kerala	Bengaluru	Open	76	Q
7	WALTW(o)	Bengaluru	Open	75	Q
8	Zulfikar E Ingit	Mumbai	Open	75	City Winner (Q)
9	Travelling Pillsburys	Mumbai	Open	73	Q
10	Matunga Manram	Mumbai	Open	71	Q
11	Hammer and Tongs	Kolkata	Open	71	City Winner (Q)
12	Memory Blank	Chennai	Open	69
13	Delhi Rum	New Delhi	Open	69
14	Sheikh Yerboutis	Dubai	Open	68	City Winner (Q)
15	SJC Quizzers	Bengaluru	Open	67
16	Sridevis and an extra	Bengaluru	Open	61
17	Theim.Nein	Mumbai	Open	59
18	Forecasting Couch	Bengaluru	Open	58
19	Peter Panchali	Bengaluru	Open	58
20	Three Corners	Dubai	Open	58
21	Inmaniacs	Kolkata	Open	58
22	Feni Vidi Vici	Goa	Open	57	City Winner (Q)
23	Whistler's Mother's Day	Mumbai	Open	57
24	Rebel Alliance	Chennai	Open	57
25	Answering Service	Kolkata	Open	56
26	The Extremophiles	Kolkata	Open	56
27	Swami and Friends	Hyderabad	Open	54	City Winner (Q)
28	Milo’s Fourmen	New Delhi	Open	54
29	Boka Juniors	Kolkata	Open	54
30	Almost First	Hyderabad	Open	53
31	Siddharth, Sreekanth, Kaustubh and Atul	New Delhi	Open	53
32	QMK	Chennai	Open	51
33	Surreal and Fluoroscent	New Delhi	Open	51
34	Better Call Paul	Chennai	College	48	Natl. College Winner	IIT-Madras
35	Four Studies	Bengaluru	Open	48
36	The Colonels and their Batmen	Pune	Open	47	City Winner (Q)
37	Cobbled and Sewn	Pune	Open	44
38	RASS-Malai	New Delhi	Open	44
39	Tequila Mockingbirds	Thrissur	Open	44	City Winner (Q)
40	3 Men in a 500D to say nothing of Giri	Bengaluru	Open	43
41	Paper St Soap Co.	Bengaluru	Open	43
42	Jyothi, Shafeeq, Prasanth, Anand	Bengaluru	Open	43
43	Tom’s Dick Harry	New Delhi	Open	43
44	Young Guys (& their Seaman)	Goa	Open	41
45	Rasagola Revolutionaries	Bhubaneswar	Open	40	City Winner
46	Parantap,Prateek, Raman & Sandeep	Mumbai	Open	40
47	P.S. I don't Love You	Chennai	College	39
48	How2	Bengaluru	College	39	BLR College Winner
49	Sniper Gang #420NoScope	New Delhi	School	39	Natl School Winner	(DPS Noida)
50	Last Minute Registrations FTW	New Delhi	Open	39
51	Mallus Foremen	Thrissur	Open	39
52	May the fourth be with us!	Mumbai	Open	38
53	Rags To Riches	Hyderabad	Open	38
54	Maa Maati Manushi Chillar	Pune	Open	37
55	Lone Wolf No Cub	New Delhi	College	37
56	Tiruppur Tughlaqs	Coimbatore	Open	37	City Winner
57	Misplaced Misfits	Bengaluru	Open	36
58	Hum Honge Kamyaab Ek Din	Hyderabad	Open	36
59	Masha Dinka	Thrissur	Open	36
60	3 Men and a GOAT	Bengaluru	Open	35
61	3 Freshmen in a Boat (To say nothing of the Secy)	New Delhi	College	35
62	Movers and Chandrashekar	Goa	Open	35
63	Gang Of Spoilers	Bhubaneswar	College	34
64	Dr Jose and the Pussycats	Bengaluru	Open	33
65	Beatallica	Bengaluru	Open	32
66	D’Artagnan and Muskeeters	New Delhi	College	32
67	Gajiro ke Saudagar	Tezpur	College	31	City Winner
68	Failed to Register	Pune	Open	30
69	Inglorious Basterds	Pune	College	30
70	What-Men	Goa	Open	29
71	Dramedy of the Commons	Bengaluru	Open	28
72	Introvert, Extrovert, Javert and Lil Uzi Vert	Mumbai	Open	28
73	Ramesh Athreya , Dr. Bobby & Meera Manoj	Kuwait	Open	28
74	NIT-K LSO - A	Bengaluru	College	27
75	Gareeb	Bengaluru	College	27
76	Elongated Muskrats	Hyderabad	Open	26
77	On Shaikhy Ground	Hyderabad	Open	26
78	Da-Lit AF	New Delhi	School	26
79	Victorias Secret	Coimbatore	Open	26
80	DBC	Bengaluru	Open	25
81	First-Timers	Bengaluru	Open	25
82	Fire in the Pot Belly	Hyderabad	Open	25
83	Daft Punk-aj	Kolkata	College	25
84	Seriuss	Kolkata	College	24
85	Unnikrishnan and Anand	Thrissur	Open	24
86	Inglorious Pounceterds	New Delhi	School	23
87	Curd rice cartel plus Gujju	Goa	College	23
88	Madness	Pune	Open	22
89	Remembrance of Things Last	New Delhi	Open	22
90	Baba Ramdev Have you any food?	Mumbai	Open	20
91	Betta call Kaul	Goa	College	20
92	Anil and Gigi	Thrissur	Open	20
93	Iruttu Araiyil Megawatts	Coimbatore	College	18
94	We Are A Caar	Trivandrum	Open	16
95	Mahismati	New Delhi	Open	16
96	Reservoir Doges	Pune	College	15
97	HuMann Ki Baat	Bengaluru	School	15
98	The 4 letter word	Coimbatore	College	15
99	Nanda, Mukilan, Srinith, Jitendran	Coimbatore	College	15
100	TU r lorahokol	Tezpur	College	14
101	Jayasuriya, Shrinivas, Anirudh	Coimbatore	School	14
102	The Defenders	Pune	Open	12
103	Sharon Thomas , Emily Cherian, Emma Cherian & Kurian Thomas	Kuwait	School	12
104	Badfellas	Thrissur	School	11
105	Ajiknowmoto	Bengaluru	School	10
106	A.M.A.R	New Delhi	School	9
107	Quizipedia of Dodo	Bengaluru	School	8
108	Unusual Suspects	Pune	Open	7
109	Team II	Trivandrum	Open	7
110	Why So Serious?	Bhubaneswar	School	5
111	Fauji Brats	New Delhi	Open	5

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