Campus Quiz Results - Jamshedpur – XLRI dominate Jamshedpur
On the dot at 2:00 PM the curtains opened to the 2012 campus edition of Tata Crucible. As Pickbrain walked up on stage, he started with a piece of trivia that the first ever Crucible had been rolled out of Jamshedpur as well. With close to a 100 teams (the highest ever for this city) battling for the top slots in the final he went about his task setting a brisk pace.
The city witnessed one wild card round that was completely dominated by 6 teams from XLRI from which the top two moved into the final.
The finalists were:
- XLRI : Mario Fernando & Chinmay Kamat
- NIT Rourkela : Partha Pratim Panda & Abhishek Das
- BIT Mesra : Debajit Roy & Pranshuman
- XLRI : Ankit Suman & Deepanjan Deb
- NIT Jamshedpur : Sunit Mohanty & Deepak Venkatesh
- XLRI : Mrutyunjaya & Ulaganath
The final witnessed an authoritative performance by Deepanjan and Ankit who consistently led the quiz from start to finish ensuring a smooth passing into the national final. The second place was a keenly fought battle between BIT Mesra, XLRI (Mario and Chinmay) and XLRI (Mrutyunjaya and Ulaganath).
The entire excitement of the second place went down to a nail biting tie breaker which was won by Mrutyunjaya and Ulaganath of XLRI.
The chief guest Mr.Senthil Kumar – Head Human Resources at Tata Steel urged the youngsters to “Go for it” and never leave a single day in their lives without attempting to move ahead. He elaborated that given the sharpness and speed of processing information huge opportunities and success await these youngsters.