The second edition of the QFI U-S Open was held in January. The top five teams in the prelim made it to the final directly while a semifinal was conducted for the next eight teams with three more teams making it to the final from there. Here are the results:
Top 5 Scores in Prelim
- Someone Please Turn the A/C On (Pranavi, Siddhanth, Shreyas) (24)
- Murattu Kalais (Vishnu Prasad, Ramesh Natarajan, Ramakrishnan) (22.5)
- Theva Illai (Atulaa Krishnamurthy, Sohaib Nasim, Nihal Harish) (21.5)
- Ananth, Ziyad, Rumaiza (21)
- J-TAP goes to Ethiraj (Rushabh Menon, Gerleo Nimalan, Varun Murthy) (21)
Semifinalists
- Shibin Azad, Jinson Chacko, Vishnu Vijay (20.5)
- Dho Captain, Vi Captain – What Wit Man! (Arunprasad R, Anush Iyer, Vinid Sasidharan) (20)
- Unretirables (Dr. R. Narendran, Nirupama V, Sriram N) (20)
- XYZ (R. Sriram, S. Narendran, Ashwin) (19.5)
- Jaldi-Kat-Le! (Karthik, Krishna Prasad, Ashwin Prabhu) (19.5)
- Aam Aadmi Katchi (Anantha, Adi, Kasthuri) (18.5)
- Varuthapadaadha Quizzer Sangam (Aniruddh, Prashanth, Aravind) (18.5)
- Eat. Sleep. Reval. Repeat (Arvind M, Praveen N, Sreenivas V) (18.5)
Honorable Mention
Definitely | Maybe (Patrick, Sana, Sabarish) (18)
The three teams which made it from the Semi-Finals
- Dho Captain, Vi Captain – What Wit Man! (Arunprasad R, Anush Iyer, Vinid Sasidharan)
- Aam Aadmi Katchi (Anantha, Adi, Kasthuri)
- Varuthapadaadha Quizzer Sangam (Aniruddh, Prashanth, Aravind)
Final Results:
First Place:
Varuthapadaadha Quizzer Sangam (Aniruddh, Prashanth, Aravind) (149 points)
Second Place:
Someone Please Turn the A/C On (Pranavi, Siddhanth, Shreyas) (139 points)
Third Place:
Theva Illai (Atulaa Krishnamurthy, Sohaib Nasim, Nihal Harish) (132 points)
Other Finalists:
Aam Aadmi Katchi (Anantha, Adi, Kasthuri) (131 points)
J-TAP goes to Ethiraj (Rushabh Menon, Gerleo Nimalan, Varun Murthy) (120 points)
Murattu Kalais (Vishnu Prasad, Ramesh Natarajan, Ramakrishnan) (108 points)
Dho Captain, Vi Captain – What Wit Man! (Arunprasad R, Anush Iyer, Vinid Sasidharan) (106 points)
Ananth, Ziyad, Rumaiza (38 points)