Mangalore :
The team “Beasts At The Back” from Bangalore won the first prize of Rs 6 lakh at the Quiz on the Beach (QOTB), the flagship event of Atharva held at the beautiful Kaup beach with the stunning backdrop of the Arabian Sea, on Saturday evening.
The winning team consisted of participants Arvind V and Siddharth from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore and St Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore respectively. This was the 11th edition of QOTB and 26th edition of Atharva, the annual international B-fest of TA Pai Management Institute (Tapmi).
The second prize of Rs 3 lakh was won by Aditya Bagri and Saransh V from S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai and the team of Ranjiv Ravi and Ajay Srinath from ISB came third to bag the third prize of Rs. 1.5 lakh.
Conducted by the quiz master Navin Jaykumar of the Landmark Quiz fame and Anustubh Datta, the finale resulted in a culmination of five months of quizzing extravaganza consisting of online rounds and city qualifiers in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai . Over 700 participants from across the globe participated and vied for the prizes worth Rs 13 lakh. The prize money this year was 13-fold increase over the previous year.
QOTB had gone international this year with an online round to cater to a global audience. The winners of the International Round of QOTB were Adithya Sriram Sankaran and Shreyas Rajagopalan from ESCP Europe. They won prize money of $500.
Overall QOTB had participants from colleges across the world like IIM Indore, TISS , NMIMS , NITIE, IIT Madras , IIM Bangalore , NIT-K Surathkal , Wichita State University, San Diego State University, National University of Singapore , ESCP Europe, BITS Pilani Dubai, University of Houston, etc.
There was a footfall of 800 people at the Kaup Beach. Udupi District Superintendent M.B. Boralingaiah, Assistant Superintendent of Police Annamalai, Managing Director- India at Group FM Prakash Gurumoorthy, Mohan Narayanan founder and CEO of Kubos Consultancy, Ashwin Raghuraman COO India Innovation Fund were present at the event.
source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Mangalore / by Stanley Pinto, TNN / February 02nd, 2014