Turns out, as always, things never happen according to the plan...
A bit of what happened over the last 4 days.
Thursday, 26th Feb 2009: Aarohan 2k9 begins. I go to see the inauguration. The shadow show was good. I was supposed to come back to room right after the inauguration and not participate in Aarohan. But I ran into Rahul and Nisha. We sat for the Graphiti prilims, Nisha, Rahul and me. Only Nisha had registered for Aarohan.
Friday, 27th Febraury: Rahul and Abhiyan come up and say they want to participate in a event called Brand Promo. I go with them. We register for Aarohan, participate and have fun. Night we qualify for the graphiti finals. We participate. Rahul, Nisha and I. We miss the General Quiz. Abhiyan teams up with a RandomPhD guy and wins the quiz.
Saturday, 28th Febraury: Bitan comes along with a junior and Indradumna, wants to form a team with me for the Sports and Entertainment Quiz. I say yes. The junior wants out as he already has a 1st year team. Then Rahul and Abhiyan happen along and say I ditched them. I think and form a best-fit team out of us. Bitan, Abhiyan, Rahul and me. We clear the prilims and with the Quiz. I am happy. Abhiyan is on a roll.
We go on for the Biz Quiz with the same team. We don't clear the prilims.
Now a note about the quizzes for those that don't know. Exquizzit is this quizzing event in Aarohan(Our Official Annual Tech Fest), comprising of four quizzes. They have prilims and stage rounds for the General Quiz, the Sports and Entertainment quiz, the Biz Quiz. The top 6 teams from these 3 quizzes directly qualify or the Final Frontier Quiz. The General and the Sports and Entertainment Quizzes are hosted by Parnab Mukherjee. His questions are tough. The Biz Quiz and the Final Frontier are hosted by some guy name Arnab, an IIMC passout.
Sunday, 29th Febraury(oh sorry, 1st March): Final day of Aarohan 2009. We were sure to qualify for the Final Frontier Quiz. But we didn't.
The reason: They added up each teams scores for all the three quizzes and on the basis of the cumulative score, let teams up on stage. So a team who stood 5th in the Biz Quiz with a score of 77 and did not qualify for the rest of the quizzes, qualified for the Final Frontier, while my team which stood 1st in the Sports and Entertainment Quiz with a score of 70, did not qualify. It's natural that the winners of the 3 quizzes should qualify. Maybe it's not that obvious for them.
A better method could have been to give teams point on their ranks (1st -> 10, 2nd -> 8, 3rd -> 5) and then add them to see who qualifies. Maybe logic is a bit too tough for these people.
When shown the obvious flaw in their method of qualifying teams for the Final Frontier Quiz, The Convenor, Aarohan 2k9 said, "I will organise MY Fest in MY way, if you want to participate, do, else please go back to your rooms".
The reason that hurt me was: I was responsible for two events, one FREE-P-L in Mukti '09 - a National Level Technical Symphosium on GNU/Linux and Free Software, and another Formula Won in Motor Zundung - The AutoFest, both similar events which I made the software for. In both cases we had to scrap and redo the event from scratch because there was a minor error in the database of the matches.
13 comments:
Obviously Raaju is, even he knows that.
"MY FEST", LOL
They burnt my paper in the qual round of "Khulla Maidan."
Their reason: Sandip & mine's answers matched ditto. (Sandip saw a couple of my answers & rejected them thinking to be wrong. So obviously our answers were all same.) I couldnt prove my point coz they had already burnt the papers.
Reason according to my frens: I wrote my name on the top of the paper.
Next event, Code Marauders, I sit for the quals again. This time, not with my name..
"xusacc en arriere" is the team name i used here.
Qualified & won 2nd prize. I think i should have come first.
I suppose, this is why Aarohan is different from the other fests in college!
m sure u r not studpid
Bhaiya its ...sure ..clear...nd loud..u r nt a stupid....I thgt of proving it...Used google as mah tool....'Shreyank Gupta' search match exausted at 10th page....while 'Anand kishore Raaju' exausted at very fourth page....guyz try it out!!Few gloss of Aarogance 2k9 :-
1.Rajat bhaiya's khulla maidan incidence
2.Jr. Networking award(dont knw frm ver dis came frm).
3.Exceptional Expectations (Afterall its our mistake)...isnt it??
Hey rajat bhaiya...y was the paper burnt!! Carbon dioxide...harmful naa...or is there was some rule...If cheated ..It will be burnt...??
During the validictory ceremony, it was announced, 95 colleges have participated, the truth is only 56 did.
56 in itself was a comendable number, but they have to add something all the time... dont they....
But the biggest and the most shameful incident of Aarohan was the beating up of juniors by the organisers of the fest on the midnight of 1st March.
A shameful incident indeed... the were beaten up mercilessly....
Also, the intentional disturbunces during Startalk, an LC event, was a distastful act...
The event brand promo was organised, the winners r yet to be announced....
What's going on.... SHITs????
hey da try Business Quiz
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