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 | |||||||
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# | 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 | |||