Mega-Whats 2017 Results.

MegaWhats 2017 was attempted by 145 teams in sixteen centres across India and one centre in Dubai. A team from Kharkiv in Ukraine, also attempted the quiz on a non-compete basis. Teams had to try their hand at 78 questions, across three sections, for a maximum score of 100 points.

As before, we are selecting the Top 10 teams from among the sixteen city-winners, and the next six highest scoring teams to face-off in the semi-finals to be held at asKQAnce 2017 in Bengaluru.

The highest score in the country, 84 points, was recorded by QED from Chennai consisting of Samanth Subramanian, Swaminathan G, Jayakanthan R, and Gopal Kidao.

We Are Like This Wonly comprising Anustup Datta, Arun Hiregange, Thejaswi Udupa and Ochintya Sharma topped the Bangalore edition with 80 points.

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

1. Chennai – QED – 84
2. New Delhi – Travelling Pillsburys – 81
3. Bengaluru – We Are Like This Wonly – 80
4. Mumbai – Aardvarks – 79
5. Dubai – Sheikh Yerboutis – 77
6. Kolkata – Hammer and Tongs – 72
7. Pune – UNCertified Mega WTF – 65
8. Goa – Feni, Vidi, Vici, VG – 62
9. Hyderabad – Swami and Friends – 57
10. Coimbatore – Tiruppur Tughlaqs – 49

Victoria’s Secrets from Thrissur just miss out on the sudden death, on the third answer, with a score of 49.

The next six teams to qualify are:

1. Three Men In a Quiz to Say Nothing of the Doc – New Delhi – 77
2. Remembrance of Things Fast – Chennai – 76
3. SJC Quizzers – Bengaluru – 75
4. Memory Blank – Chennai – 74
5. Forecasting Couch – Bengaluru – 74
6. BMQJ – Bengaluru – 73

 

All these teams are required to confirm their availability for attending the semi-finals of MegaWhats scheduled on Friday, June 30 at 2 PM. Please send an email 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 Aardvarks Alliance from Chennai, will be offered their slot.

A team from DPS Noida, calling themselves Sniper Gang #420 consisting of Ayuj, Jaivardhan, Pranava and Arijit, recorded the highest score among all school teams with 27 points.

A team from IIT Delhi comprising Shreyas, Pratyush, Swapnil and Soumya topped the college category with 46 points.

The Top five scores recorded in Bengaluru included the four teams mentioned in the qualifier lists above, and the fifth place was secured by CIDs from Kerala with 69 points. The school team with the highest score was NPS Indiranagar (24), while NALSAR topped the college track with 43 points.

The team from Kharkiv, Ukraine, made 45 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 2017 city prelims, a success. Hoping to see all of you at asKQAnce 2017 starting June 30. Details scores can be found below.

Rank	Team	City	Category	Score	Status
1	QED	Chennai	Open	84	Natl. Winner (Q)
2	Travelling Pillsburies	Delhi	Open	81	City Winner (Q)
3	We Are Like This (W)only	Bengaluru	Open	80	City Winner (Q)
4	Aardvarks	Mumbai	Open	79	City Winner (Q)
5	Sheikh Yerboutis	Dubai	Open	77	City Winner (Q)
6	Three Men in a Quiz, to say nothing of the Doc	Delhi	Open	77	Q
7	Remembrance of Things Fast	Chennai	Open	76	Q
8	SJC Quizzers	Bengaluru	Open	75	Q
9	Memory Blank	Chennai	Open	74	Q
10	Forecasting Couch	Bengaluru	Open	74	Q
11	BMQJ	Bengaluru	Open	73	Q
12	Hammer & Tongs	Kolkata	Open	72	City Winner (Q)
13	Aardvarks Alliance	Chennai	Open	72
14	Ingit's Bergmen	Mumbai	Open	71
15	Insignificant Others	Chennai	Open	70
16	CIDs from Kerala	Bengaluru	Open	69
17	Answering Service	Kolkata	Open	65
18	UNCertified Mega WTF	Pune	Open	65	City Winner (Q)
19	Debashree, Preyoshi, Dhammo, Tanmay	Bengaluru	Open	63
20	Logik's Angels	Bengaluru	Open	62
21	Matunga Manram	Mumbai	Open	62
22	Feni Vidi Vici VG	Goa	Open	62	City Winner (Q)
23	Thanes of Thane	Mumbai	Open	61
24	Joint Family	Bengaluru	Open	59
25	Aaj Kuch Chazzy Karte Hain!	Delhi	Open	58
26	Swami & Friends	Hyderabad	Open	57	City Winner (Q)
27	Arsenal of Quizzing	Kolkata	Open	56
28	Strolling Bones	Delhi	Open	55
29	Sreekanth, Siddharth, Atul, Ram	Delhi	Open	55
30	#Mental Disintegration	Chennai	Open	52
31	Tiruppur Tughlaqs	Coimbatore	Open	49	City Winner (Q)
32	Victoria's Secrets	Thrissur	Open	49	City Winner
33	Dho Captain Vi Captain	Bengaluru	Open	49
34	Motley Crew	Pune	Open	49
35	Exasperated Farragos	Chennai	Open	48
36	IIT Delhi	Delhi	College	46	Natl. College Winners
37	TBD	Chennai	Open	45
38	Commie, Maybe	Hyderabad	Open	45
39	We Are Not Koolies	Trivandrum	Open	45	City Winner
40	Yem Bee Yay	Hyderabad	Open	44
41	All the Way from Shamirpet - NALSAR	Bengaluru	College	43	BLR College Winners
42	Royal Beengaluru Tigers	Bengaluru	Open	43
43	Thirudoram Thattukada	Trivandrum	Open	43
44	Magnificent 3 +1	Mumbai	College	42
45	No Name	Mumbai	Open	42
46	3 Patients in a Boat	Kolkata	Open	42
47	Rasagola Revolutionaries	Bhubaneswar	Open	42	City Winner
48	Jai Soviet-/Kyon Bar Likhee	Pune	Open	42
49	Salt N' Pepper	Trivandrum	Open	42
50	Better call Kaul	Goa	College	41
51	Shaukeens	Kolkata	Open	41
52	Karthikeya, Askash, Rohan	Bengaluru	Open	41
53	Nihal's team	Bengaluru	College	41
54	Rushabh, Shashwat, Arijiti, Siddhanth	Chennai	College	41
55	Booze is the Cigarette of Our Energy	Delhi	Open	41
56	Mini-Whats	Hyderabad	Open	38
57	Real Madira	Mumbai	Open	37
58	Aniruddha Mitra, Siddharth Srivastava, Akshar Varma, Kevin Vegda	Ahmedabad	Open	37	City Winner
59	Lagags Legorundum	Hyderabad	Open	36
60	What were we smoking	Goa	Open	35
61	Cultural salad	Kanpur	College	35	City Winner
62	Inshallah Boys Played Well	Delhi	Open	35
63	Unprincipled Wannabees Masquerading as Quizzers	Tezpur	College	35	City Winner
64	Jose and the Pussycats	Bengaluru	Open	34
65	No Quarter	Goa	Open	34
66	Govind, Shravya and team - IITM	Chennai	College	34
67	The Feni Bones	Goa	Open	33
68	Three Fates	Pune	Open	33
69	Viewers from the Cheap Seats	Bengaluru	Open	33
70	Anirudh Anil Kumar Methala Perumal Pillai	Pune	College	33
71	Razz Ma Tazz	Tezpur	College	33
72	Introvert Extrovert Ambivert & Pervert	Bengaluru	College	32
73	We have a Naidu	Bengaluru	Open	32
74	Know Nonesense	Delhi	Open	32
75	Anil, Akhilesh, Harikrishnan, Abhilash	Thrissur	Open	32
76	Cherry Bombs	Trivandrum	Open	32
77	Kulcha Warrior	Bengaluru	Open	31
78	Exasperating Farrago of Distortions	Pune	College	31
79	Exasperating Farrago	Thrissur	Open	31
80	Brainstormers	Goa	College	30
81	Baba's Boy and Girl	Bengaluru	Open	30
82	Gatti Chutngy	Mumbai	Open	29
83	The Wanderers	Delhi	Open	29
84	Inglorious	Delhi	Open	29
85	Word Docs	Thrissur	Open	29
86	Bridge The Duality Gap	Hyderabad	College	28
87	Watt Lag gayi	Mumbai	Open	28
88	Koala Bear and his Kamasutra Comrades	Bhubaneswar	College	28
89	We Love Deetee	Bengaluru	College	27
90	Two Who	Bengaluru	Open	27
91	Sniper Gang #420 No Scope - DPS Noida	Delhi	School	27	Natl. School Winners
92	Girish Sulagna Utkarsh	Bengaluru	Open	26
93	Sahi Pakde Hain	Kolkata	Open	26
94	Allen & Co	Bengaluru	Open	26
95	As Bad as it gets	Mumbai	Open	25
96	Ashwin, Ruturaj, Pavan, Rohan	Pune	College	25
97	Aakash,Pulkit	Pune	Open	25
98	BTSI	Coimbatore	Open	24
99	Old Boys 2.0	Pune	Open	24
100	Troika - NPS Indiranagar	Bengaluru	School	24	BLR School Winners
101	Jalaj Maheshwari, Tejas Bagrecha, Nishit Pandya, Rohan Datta	Ahmedabad	Open	24
102	Byron's Villani	Goa	College	23
103	Heisenberg	Kolkata	Open	23
104	Doubting Thambithurai	Coimbatore	Open	23
105	St Xavier's	Mumbai	College	22
106	Deeter Yahin Banega	Mumbai	College	22
107	Error:404 Not Found	Bhubaneswar	College	22
108	PMS: Perpetual Motion Squad	Dubai	College	22
109	Beer Today, Gone Tomorrow	Delhi	College	22
110	Knight Errants	Bengaluru	Open	21
111	2*2=4	Coimbatore	Open	21
112	BNP	Delhi	College	21
113	Gravity Bongs	Kolkata	Open	21
114	Moti Ke Lal	Bengaluru	Open	20
115	3 Ps in a Pod	Goa	Open	20
116	Passerbys	Hyderabad	School	19
117	Men of Always	Kolkata	School	19
118	Polytechnicil Poyitilla	Thrissur	School	19
119	The Conquiztadors	Bengaluru	College	18
120	Tejas and team	Dubai	Open	18
121	A Last Hurrah	Goa	College	18
122	Pirates of Torrentz	Kolkata	School	18
123	Gaanchalli Bidi Quiz Maadi	Bengaluru	School	16
124	Chaccaron Macron	Chennai	College	16
125	All Ladies	Hyderabad	Open	16
126	The Step Fathers	Trivandrum	Open	16
127	Grumbach	Bhubaneswar	College	15
128	Chowka	Bengaluru	College	13
129	VNS	Coimbatore	Open	13
130	Caeser	Bhubaneswar	Open	13
131	The King of Quiz Times	Delhi	School	13
132	Anindya and Asif	Bengaluru	Open	12
133	Inglorious Bastards	Tezpur	College	12
134	Direwolves	Tezpur	College	12
135	And then there was one (Aaditya solo)	Bengaluru	School	11
136	Life of Shy	Tezpur	College	11
137	Nothing cooler than absolute zero	Bengaluru	School	10
138	Quball- Die Tamilen	Coimbatore	Open	8
139	Rajas of Coimbatore	Coimbatore	Open	8
140	Tech Biz Pub Mela Sab Khela	Bhubaneswar	School	7
141	(no name)	Kanpur	College	7
142	The Lone Wolf	Thrissur	School	6
143	Black Cat	Kolkata	School	6
144	Quizzophiliacs	Bengaluru	School	4
145	Quizzards	Bhubaneswar	College	3