The 11th edition of the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2015 is back with its intelligent and stimulating quizzing to challenge young minds across the country. Traversing across 34 cities in India, the quiz concluded its Raipur round on Wednesday which was an enthralling battle of wits where the teams showcased high levels of intelligence and quick thinking to secure a place for themselves, a company press release issued here on Wednesday stated.
Abhishek Mukerjee and Arpit Bajpai from IIM emerged victorious in a neck-to-neck fight at the regional round. Giving the winners a tough competition were Pranjal Kishore & Siddharth M from Hidayatullah National law University who bagged the runners up position. Chief Guest Secretary, Department of School Education Government of Chhattisgarh Subrat Sahoo awarded the winners a prize money of Rs100,000 and the runners-up Rs50,000.
The winners of the national final will receive a grand prize of Rs700,000 along with the coveted Tata Crucible Trophy. The Tata group in its endeavors to give back to the society and encourage the culture of giving, amongst the participants had introduced a charitable component to the quiz last year. The same will be followed this year where in Rs2 lakhs from National Winning team’s prize and Rs25,000 and Rs15,000 from the Regional Winners and Runners up prize respectively will be contributed directly to a charity of the team’s choice fulfilling specified conditions.
The Raipur Regional round of Tata Crucible Campus Quiz witnessed participation from 93 colleges across the city. The top 6 teams were selected after a preliminary written and a subsequent wild card round. Besides the runners and winners up, the other four teams that qualified for the top 6 included Akash Gupta & Benson Baby from Pandit Ravishankar Shukla College, Deepak Rajan & Rohit Kishore from IIM, Avijeet Singh Mandloi & Tarun Kaushik from NIT and Bharadwaj S & S B Ravi Chandra from IIM.
The city regional rounds will be followed by Zonal finals which will be organized in New Delhi (Zone 1), Kolkata (Zone 2), Mumbai (Zone 3), and Bengaluru (Zone 4). The top two teams from each zone would battle it out for the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2015 title at the National Finals to be held in Mumbai in April, 2015. The quiz was hosted by ace quizmaster Giri Balasubramaniam aka Pickbrain.