IITM Open Quiz
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... )
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... )
Disagree a bit on the LVC points system though. I am not sure how Pota and co did it, but usually all teams can get almost equal points if they crack it wthin a finite time. 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). The problem comes only when a team does not get it at all or something like that, which is really their fault! The only criteria should be that the LVC is not vague enough so as to make it inaccessible to several teams (Eg- A Litsoc quiz once had decorations on Euro coins as an LVC! Luckily no one knew it and in the end only 2 teams guessed it). I know Pota's LVC this time, and I felt it was fairly general, so cant say you have a valid excuse there!
Have to say I am really envious of the fact that you can go back and participate in OQ! I had always dreamed of doing so someday, but looks like that wont be happening for some time...
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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)
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