Tata Crucible 2006 - B'lore Zonals

Giri Balasubramaniam a.k.a 'Pickbrain' is a very good quizmaster. After an engrossing Tata crucible zonals, he comes across as an ideal blend of quizmaster qualities. His questions are pretty good, he doesn't forget his sponsors, but doesn't bloat about them, unlike some others i know ( b'lore quizzers will understand whom i'm referring to). He has a subtle way of putting across the sponsors and a good sense of humor. a very enjoyable quizmaster indeed. To top all this, he's got a top notch support team and the logistics are exceptionally immaculate, i'd say.

Now to talk about the quiz, the elims saw the last year all india champions, WYSE technologies, crashing out which was sad because i became quite a fan of them after watching them perform in illuminati-05, a local quiz conducted by concorde motors in association with ITM. In the finals of that, these guys were shown the logo of a company which had the shoot of a plant in a circle or square and they worked out the correct answer. Monsanto was the answer and i was damn impressed.

Moving on to the actual finals, we found a demolition man in a guy from Kotak mahindra who along with his teammate, at the end of the quiz, had 20 more points than the sum of the scores of all the other teams. Absolutely scintillating answers from him. believe me when i say that i got goosepimples on hearing some of his answers.

there were a lot of workable questions and that is the heart and soul of a quiz. A question is called good, if on hearing the answer you exclaim, "ohhh!". There were a lot of them today.

Overall, a nice quiz and a very good quizmaster. Except in terms of the display of genius, even better than Parnab Mukherjee...may u'r tribe increase