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skthewimp

IITM Open Quiz

Oct 07, 2007 09:30

OK this post is coming up a full four days too late, but it doesn't matter. Extreme NED at work which has spilled over to personal life, and a few lazy days have contributed to the delay.

Anyways, the last day of the four day weekend last weekend (i took monday off) was spent going to madras for the IIT Madras open quiz. For a bit of a background, ( Read more... )

descriptive, quizzing, general

Comments 2

anonymous October 7 2007, 15:11:44 UTC

You can actually take back NQA now if you want...I think Pota is slowly entering retirement mode, while RG seems to have been swallowed up by IIMB ( ... )

anonymous October 7 2007, 17:05:35 UTC

If a team gets it much faster, then they should be rewarded (similar to Odyssey's written round funda where you get more if lesser teams get it).

Yes but the outcome of the entire quiz cannot hinge on a single question or LVC. Sure LVC's are hard to crack but it does devalue the regular questions. The Differential Scoring system also has it's own flaws as you could get away by merely answering a single question in the entire section (I think someone did this in this year's Saarang Semi. He answered one question which the others failed to crack and ended up with 7 points-which roughly works out to 4 questions in the regular quiz)