Much to
every bodies relief this years
BEQ Hyderabad round was held in the comforts of
HICC Novetel,providing the participants and audience much needed respite from the
sweltering heat wave that has hit Hyderabad for the past 2 weeks.
The Hotel had a decent
spread of refreshments lined up.
The prelims had a very good mix of easy,tough and
chestnut questions to
separate the chalk from the cheese .Unlike in the past Derek
didn't announce the score of all the participants who took part in the prelim ..Guess he was running late and had to cover up for lost time waiting for participants to arrive.This unique feature of Derek announcing the scores after the prelims has helped wannabe finalist benchmark against the better ones and has come them come back the next year.Surprising the scores of the 4o odd teams were not announced.
The finals was a battle between the " Men of
Steel " vs " Software pros".
Vizag steel which has been doing consistently with Mr
Murthy and Mr
Rahul made it to the stage along with one more team of theirs...
Bhilai steel to made it to the top6...Google ( a seasoned team of
Lathish and
JK( a consistent regional finalist for as long as I can
remember)),Microsoft(
Niteesh and his partner),and IBM (with
Raghu (the KC quizzer) and
Ragu ( the legendary
TCS finalist at
Tata Crucible ) made it to the final.
Unfortunately
JWT Mindest the winners for the past 2
years didn't make the cut for the top 6 but
didn't go home empty handed and Mr
Anwar bagged a
handsome audience prize from Club
Mahindra.
One thing which is
consistent for the past 2-3 years at
BEQ Hyderabad is that the winner was somebody who cracked the clincher not
because of being a regular at quizzing but has been someone who has seen the world as was the case for the past 2 years (Mr
Anwar clinching the quiz for
JWT the past 2 years ) and
Raghu clinching it for IBM ( with his answer on type of pastas) which only experience can teach you.
Raghu-Sr is a deserving finalist esp due to his never say die attempts at
BEQ ..I
remember he made it to the top 6 in 2001 with
Vishwanath Chavali and just missed the cut last year.Hats off to his
undeterred efforts at
BEQ he has a very good partner in
Raguram Jr a good all round quizzer from KC.
A special mention of
Raja satish who
cracked the audience question on
RGIA theme song ..a very
good answer..
Murli Duggineni cracked the
Ceaser salad answer in the
audience.
Murli and
Rajeev Kondapali couldn't participate as their
companies Idea
and Mahindra Satyam were sponsors of this event
Labels: Quizzing
