tasting some success

This one achievment(i would like to call it that way), i would like to share with my friends particularly. As known to most of my friends, i am a quizzing buff since long. I had always been short of a good partner and so had not qualified to stage of any national level quiz for a long time. Although i kept on winning small quiz competitions thru out my school and college but no major ones.

I had almost left quizzing beforw comin to ITM, untill one day our grand quiz master of ITM, Mr. Anirban Mohanty rekindled that extinguishing fire within me. With resources like internet at my disposal, i decided to start biz quizzing. I started reading "n" no. of blogs on biz quiz. Collected ads,punchlines etc.

My efforts bore fruit when, me and Anirban won a biz quiz in BBSR during our NGO project. It was a win for me after many many years, but for Anirban it was yet anothet laurel, as he is famous in Quizzing circle of bhubaneswar.

The defining moment came,when we came to know about the Mumbai leg of TATA crucible campus quiz,India's biggest quiz. Me and anirban decided to attend it. So we started polishing our business gyaan. On the fateful day,i reached the venue 5 min. late with a broken hand along with me. We went into the hall. The quiz master called out 20 qstns and we gave it our best shot.When answers were declared, we had 11 correct. Then the wild card round started, and there was no mention of us. I was loosing hope. But fate had other plans.

I was really taken aback, when the quiz master Giri Subramaniam said that Tata crucible has been throwing surprises each year with lesser known college candidates qualifying to top 6 tahn from known colleges and this year it was ITM,s turn to deprive JBIMS,NITIE,SPJAIN,ICFAI,SIES to go on stage. We were thrilled and it took us some time to sink in the feeling. When we took our positions on stage ,the whole mumbai student crowd from elite institutions wer there. We were brushing shoulders from quizzards from IIT,KJ somaiya,Narsee Monjee. Then we came to know that the episode was going to be recorded to be telecasted on CNBC .
Once on the stage ,lady luck departed us and we knew that to succeed you ahve to maintain ur momentum and have more broad knowledge base. It was a learning lesson for us as we came last, but all gloom disappeared when we found out that the TATA'a had surprise in store for us. A goodie bag containing a PHILLIPS DVD Player, A fAST TRACK goggles, a pen drive was given to us.

I returned satisfied, bcz it was my first attempt at such a major event and we qualified to finals and were rewarded for our efforts also. I hope our small acheivement will encourage many more quizzers at ITM.
Sorry if u get bored,as i cud nt stop myself from sharing this great news with every one.