The duo of Krishnakant Prasad and Royce Cherian Thomas from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Bangalore, beat the Coimbatore teams to emerge winners in the regional round of the Business Line Corporate Quiz – Cerebration in Coimbatore.
The TCS team scored 60 points and pushed the Coimbatore champions — the team from Chennai Silks — into the second place.
With this win, two teams from TCS — winners from the regional round in Chennai and Coimbatore — would enter the national finals to be held in Mumbai.
Incidentally, Coimbatore has emerged as the first city to have a B-School team qualify to the regional round.
Quiz master ‘Pickbrain’ Giri Balasubramaniam said the KCT Business School team comprising Sri Hari and Mohan K. V. scored better than some of the corporates who participated in the preliminary round.
“On the whole, the scores in the preliminary round have been on par with the scores in Chennai or Hyderabad. The number of participating teams might be less here, but quality certainly seems to be the better side of Coimbatore,” he added.
The title sponsor for the quiz is Corporation Bank, while the associate partners are NCDEX and SAIL. Le Meridien is the hospitality partner and gifts for the audience were sponsored by Raymond Weil, AppTabs and Lawrence & Mayo.