Prashant Singh Chauhan and Ashish Mani from the Indian Institute of Management Indore, Mumbai Campus decimated their opponents to win the Navi Mumbai edition of Tata Crucible Campus Quiz 2018.
A total of 84 teams battled it out in the city-level finale for the top honours, held at ITM Business School, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai. Prashant and Ashish took home a cash prize of ₹75,000, and will compete in the zonal round to qualify for the national finale. Arka Roy and Debarun Talukdar from ITM Business School, Kharghar were declared runners-up, winning a cash prize of ₹35,000. Professor JA Bhavsar, CIO, ITM was the chief guest at the finale.
This year, the theme of the quiz revolves around 150 years of business to mark the 150th year of the Tata group. In keeping with tradition, renowned quizmaster ‘Pickbrain’ Giri Balasubramaniam hosted the quiz in his masterful, inimitable style of presenting clever questions with humour.
The 14th edition of India’s biggest campus quiz will run for a little over two months, traversing 38 cities, with five zonal rounds leading to the grand national finale in Mumbai. The winners of the national finals will receive a grand prize of ₹5,00,000 along with the coveted Tata Crucible trophy.
Fastrack and Tata Motors are supporting the prizes for the competition .