won tata crucible campus jaipur 2010...

Atleast something is going good in life.
i along with ankit soni on 5th march won much awaited tata crucible jaipur edition.
we missed the last year's crucible in jaipur and tht regret finally ended on march 5.
around 125 teams(according to pickbrain) participated for that battle. out of which 4 teams made directly to the final according to their prelims score.
we topped the prelims with score of 18 out of 20.i must admit prelims was rather easy. other teams tht made directly to the final were bits pilani, mnit and gyanvihar university. wild card round was completely dominated by bits pilani. out of 6 teams from wild card round there were 4 teams from bits pilani, two of them eventually made it to final round through wild card.
we started fairly well and maintained the lead throughout and won comfortably. i could have score more on buzzer, but one bits pilani team was too aggressive on buzzer(i don't knw why).they were pressing the buzzer like hell and earned themselves few negatives.
in the end the final scores were:

arya institute of engg. & tech.( ur's truly and ankit soni) - 40
bits pilani(team 1) - 22
bits pilani(team 2) - 18
bits pilani(team 3) - 16
mnit jaipur - 6
gyanvihar univ. - 0

u can find the official report here.
National finals will be at mumbai. now i am a bit nervous about the national final.
some quizzing biggies like imt ghaziabad, iim indore, iim c(last year's national winner) , iim l, college of engineering guindy has already qualified from their respective region. we're going to represent rajasthan. national final would be a tough nut to crack . finger crossed!!!