Mr. B Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel, handed over the National Champions trophy and cash prize of Rs 2 lakhs to the winning team.
The first runner-up was the team from NMIMS- Mumbai and the second runner-up the team from ICAI-Bangalore.
According to information shared by Tata Crucible, "The winning team slugged it out in a battle with the regional champions of 11 other cities and won the contest by a whisker on the very last question."
According to Tata Crucible, the quiz witnessed a record participation of around 2000 teams across 12 cities – Kolkata, Chennai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad, Indore, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Cochin.
The event witnessed quizzing and nail biting competition between 12 teams from premier institutes, namely Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)- Hyderabad, IIM- Ahmedabad, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), IIM- Lucknow, College of Engineering- Trivandrum, SP Jain institute, ICAI-Bangalore, KIIT Bhubaneshwar, Punjab Engineering College, IMT- Ghaziabad, College of Engineering- Chennai and Symbiosis Law School.
Congratulating the winning teams, Mr. B Muthuraman said, "It was a great evening, wonderful standard of quizzing, great sharpness of mind hence I was glad to be in the audience. Congrats to IIM- Ahmedabad team and all those who participated in the quiz."
Noted Quiz Master Giri "Pickbrain" Balasubramaniam kept the audience and teams at the edge of their seats with the innovative and interesting questions that tested the teams not only on their understanding of business but presence of mind, teamwork and decision making as well.
On winning the TATA Crucible - The Campus Quiz 2008, Keerthi Raghavan from IIM- Ahmedabad, said, "We are thrilled, excited, overjoyed and proud to go back to college with the Tata Crucible - The Campus Quiz 2008 trophy. The runners-up teams, especially, NMIMS put forth a tough fight. We geared up during the last buzzer round where we cracked two consecutive questions and earned the winning score."
Following the tremendous response and success of the quiz over the last three years, the Tata Group extended the fourth edition of the TATA Crucible - The Campus Quiz 2008 to 12 cities from 8 cities in the previous year. The four new additional cities are Lucknow, Indore, Cochin and Chandigarh. A record number of close to 2000 student teams participated in the contest from across the nation.
