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Edge-of-the-seat moments at Tata Crucible Campus Quiz

Staff Reporter

The team from BIM, Tiruchi, won the contest and bagged Rs.60,000 The team from BIM, Tiruchi, won the contest

CHENNAI: The air was electric at Chinmaya Heritage Centre on Wednesday afternoon as engineering and management students from across the State were tested at the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2006.

Good audience participation, a last minute reversal of fortune, tense tiebreakers and livewire quizmaster Giri Balasubramaniam provided great quizzing moments.

The winning team got Rs.60,000 and return tickets to Mumbai for a chance to win Rs.2 lakh at the national finals. Two teams each from the Department of Management Studies, IIT-Madras, and the Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Tiruchi, and a team each from the Great Lakes Institute of Management and the Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR) were selected from 153 teams.

Innovative quizzing rounds ensured that the participants needed both knowledge of the corporate world and quick thinking to stay in the game.

The team from BIM, Tiruchi, surged forward to take the lead towards the latter half.

With IIT-Madras close behind IFMR, the former decided to try their luck and hit the buzzer before the question appeared on the screen on a round that had negative marking.

Two tiebreaker questions later, Krishna Sri Charan and Prashanth Janawade from IIT walked away with Rs.30,000.

Sathiaseelan S. and Muthupalaniappan from BIM Tiruchi won Rs.60,000 and will be flying to Mumbai for the finals on February 26.

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