KQA Collegiate Grandmaster Quiz – Results
The Karnataka Quiz Association held its 16th edition of the Collegiate Grandmaster Quiz on Sunday, 20th October 2019. After a common written prelims, separate finals for 10+2/PUC students and undergraduate college students were held.
The KQA Senior School (10+2/PUC) Solo Championships had an interesting field in that several high school students (VIII-X) qualified and did well even though they were technically punching above their weight. Some version of this might have occurred in the Collegiate Grandmaster Finals as well. The schoolkids needed to get back home after a long day, and that was perhaps why the upsets were fewer.
Aaditya Kannan had run away to 120 points after Santosh Swaminathan finished his set. At the end of the second set, he was still in the lead, albeit by a somewhat reduced margin of 50 points. Abhineet, Samuel and Rohith Paul put up determined fights instead of giving up, and made a lot of ground in this section. The first two are both high school students–KQA congratulates them for this solid performance.
Anusree Ashit took home the prize for the best woman entrant.
The final placings:
- Aaditya Kannan (SENIOR SCHOOL) PSBB LLA 170
- Abhineet (HIGH SCHOOL) BGS INTL. 120
- Samuel (HIGH SCHOOL) ST. JOHN’S HS 113
- Rohith Paul (SENIOR SCHOOL) NPS KMLA 105
- Anusree Ashit (SENIOR SCHOOL) PSBB LLA 98
- Sanjana Kartik (SENIOR SCHOO)L MAIS 95
- Adithya Acharya (HIGH SCHOOL) CHRIST ACAD. 93
- Aaditya S Rao (HIGH SCHOOL) CHRIST ACAD. 65
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Julian Costa of IISc won the KQA Collegiate Grandmaster title for 2019.
He qualified for the 12-question shootout after the finals a little ahead of a close field comprising Saishyam Srikanth, Rohith Paul and Aswin Anilkumar, but then went on to build up a more substantial lead in a format that required strategising for a low-scoring round. Rohith, a Class XII student, did very well to finish third, after missing out narrowly on a podium finish in the Senior School finals.
Final placings; the top four will hold the title of KQA College Grandmaster.
- Julian Costa IISC 175
- Aswin Anilkumar CHRIST DEEMED 143
- Rohith Paul (SENIOR SCHOOL) NPS KMLA 137
- Saishyam Srikanth ST.JOSEPH’S COLLEGE 127.5
- Rohit Ravichandran ST.JOSEPH’S COLLEGE 80
- Aaditya Kadambar IISC 78
- Raj IISC 45
- Jayanth N. BMSCE 20
A full list of the Collegiate Rankings will go up on the KQA website shortly.
For those interested, the prelims of the college quiz can be viewed here.
ASKQANCE 2011 – College Quiz Photos
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- Tejaswi Udupa conducts the Junior College Quiz
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- 1st place Junior College – Jeydev C.S., Pranav K & Mollika M from FAPS
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- 2nd Place Junior College – Darren Lobo & Nihal Harish from SJBHS
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- 3rd Place Junior College – Lokahith A, Malhar Jere & Balaji S from NPS, Rajajinagar
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- 1st Place College Quiz – Pranav, Varun R. & Aravind from National Law School
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- 2nd Place College Quiz – Rahul Gupta & Sudarshan M.A from R. V. College of Engineering
ASKQANCE 2011 – Cognito High School Quiz Photos
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- Quiz Master Arul Mani conducts the preliminary round
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- 1st Place – Ritwik & Nishant from Frank Anthony Public School
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- 2nd Place – Abhinav & Deepak from National Public School, Indiranagar
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- 3rd Place – Akshay Tiwari & Pranav from St. Joseph’s Boys’ High Schoo
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- 4th – Ramesh & Shashank from Presidency School
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- 5th – Arjun & Bharat from Florence Public School
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- 6th – Vaibhav Gowda & Venkat S from Mallya Aditi International School
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- 7th – Paul Martin & Siva Karthik from New Horizon Public School
ASKQANCE 2011 Middle School Quiz Photos
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- At the Gate
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- Quizmaster Dibyendu Das
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- The enthusiastic audience
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- DD poses a question to National Public School
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- Amrit Sodhi of St Joseph’s Boys High School qualified for the finals solo
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- Hari Karthik of BVM Chennai also qualified for the finals solo
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- Vishak L.V. & Sushruth S.R. of Sri Kumaran’s Children’s Home
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- Ruchir Joshi & Aditya Menon of NPS
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- Varun K. & Arjun J. of Frank Anthony Public School
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- Shahabuddin Munshi & Ashwin K.M. of ITI Central School
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- Preshith Naidu & Hayden D’Souza of St. Joseph’s Boys High School
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- Ameya R.B. and Sri Sreya S. of New Horizon Public School
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- Bharat V. and Nagendra K. of Presidency School, Nandini Layout
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- 1st Place – FAPS (with KQA President Ochintya Sharma on the right)
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- 2nd Place – SJBHS ‘B’
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- 3rd Place – New Horizon Public School
