APQC 2024 - results

 APQC 2024 came and went at G Hotel Gurney, Georgetown, and for a change, we had a Malaysian team consisting of individuals who actually lived in Malaysia; India turned up as they always do, with a Greatest Hits of India players of tournaments past; Singapore set a record of sorts with a 19 year old turning up; and Australia setting another record of sorts with 3.5 teams appearing, necessitating the use of BLUE as a colour and a team of spares, who duly were called THE SPARES.


Defending champions: INDIA, last year's positions being 2nd place Malaysia (albeit with some assistance from foreign imperalists) and 3rd place Australia Gold sans external assistance.


Participating teams:

AUSTRALIA: 3 (Gold, Green, Blue)

MALAYSIA: 2 (A and B)

INDIA: 1

SINGAPORE: 1

PHILIPPINES: 1

Multinational: 1


Individual rounds were very heated, with AUSTRALIA GOLD racing to an extremely large 50 point lead (one of those so called unassailable ones) and 3 out of 4 of the top individual scores. AUSTRALIA GREEN, INDIA MALAYSIA A and SINGAPORE were bunched up together in 2nd-4th with a paltry 17 points separating 2nd (and medals) and 4th (and glory). Otherwise Philippines were not far behind in 6th place with 182 total points, and Australia Blue keen to catch up lurking on 160 points.


INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS:


Overall top: Aniket Khasgiwale (Australia Gold), 89 points

Overall 2nd: Ross Evans (Australia Gold), 86 points and 2 category wins

Overall 3rd: Aaran Mohann (Australia Gold), 86 points and 1 category win

Honourable mention to Rohan (Australia Green) and Movin (Malaysia A) for being "best player of tournament not from the same team), in fourth place but at 77 points, which I daresay is probably statistically significantly different.


CATEGORY WINNERS

(in the event ties were resolved for third place, 2 bronze medals were given)


ENTERTAINMENT

1st - Mick Logue (Aus Green)

2nd - David Howse (Aus Gold)

3rd - Aaran Mohann (Aus Gold)


LANGUAGE/LITERATURE 

1st - Nicholas Pang (Malaysia A)

2nd - Aniket Khasgiwale (Aus Gold) 

3rd - Subrat Mohanty (India), Shree Patwardhan (Singapore)


Just glad to have beaten so many galacticos in my favourite category! 


SPORTS/GAMES

1st - Aniket Khasgiwale (Aus Gold) 

2nd - Subrat Mohanty (India)

3rd - Thejaswi Udupa (India), Shree Patwardhan (Singapore)


CULTURE/WORLD 

1st - Rohan Williams (Aus Green)

2nd - Movin Miranda (Malaysia A)

3rd - Shree Pathwardhan (Singapore) 


Honorable mention to Culture/World where we had a SEVEN way tie for fourth place, one point behind Messrs Rohan, Movin and Shree who tied and were tie broken. 


SCIENCE

1st - Ross Evans (Aus Gold)

2nd - Aaran Mohann (Aus Gold)

3rd - Movin Miranda (Malaysia A), Ashok Philip (Malaysia A)


LIFESTYLE

1st - Aaran Mohann (Aus Gold)

2nd - Aniket Khasgiwale (Aus Gold) 

3rd - Ajit Nayak (India) 


HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY

1st - Ross Evans (Aus Gold)

2nd - Aaran Mohann (Aus Gold)

3rd - Movin Miranda (Malaysia A)


Another honourable mention to Ross who scored a whopping 18/20 in this category - Aaran and Movin weren't even anywhere close with 13 points (resolved on a tiebreak)!


And now the subsequent two rounds. INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE was always fun to watch - Australia Gold squandered their somewhat large and probably unassailable lead at this point, "merely" getting 118 points in third place. Malaysia A rushed up the leaderboard somewhat with 121 points, but Australia Green signalled intent to firm second place by winning this category with a whopping 127 points out of a potential 200. (That looks like very little but honestly if you are in the hot seat with 30 seconds and multiple social judgement, you will be lucky to wrangle anything more than half of that 200!)


So scores going into final round - GOLD maintain their lead on 385, GREEN are somewhat safe but gotta watch their backs on 351, and Malaysia slide quite literally by the skin of their teeth into third (and poised to bring home that plastic crap) 328 points, with INDIA breathing fire down their necks with...327 points.


No more mistakes, Malaysia. 


We now go into the final team rounds, 40 gruelling questions, some of which have the classic Indian quizzing feature of 2 parters (and 10 points instead of 5, which sends the scoring team into another frenzy momentarily as the scoring system was set up for something completely different...) So in this round, AUSTRALIA GOLD and INDIA both up their game after the previous round's slightly disappointing 3rd and 4th placed performances with 220 points apiece....GREEN drop a slight notch in this round to 5th place on 210 (allowing Singapore to overhaul them on 4th place)...but MALAYSIA keep their calm (with the granular statistics per question and after each question certainly being kept tabs on by ALL THREE teams - Malaysia, Green and India - judging by the dirty looks everyone was giving everyone each time the scoreboard shifted imperceptibly) and get themselves a 225 to win the team round. 


So....now.


WINNERS PER ROUND

WRITTEN

1st - Australia Gold

2nd - Australia Green

3rd - India


Bonus: No of written rounds won by team member

Australia Gold - 4 (Sports/games, Science, Lifestyle, History/Geography)

Australia Green - 2 (Ent, Culture/World)

Malaysia A  - 1 (Lang/Lit)


INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE

1st - Australia Green

2nd - Malaysia A

3rd - Australia Gold


TEAM ROUND

1st - Malaysia

2nd - India and Australia Gold


Drumroll please...


CHAMPIONS: AUSTRALIA GOLD (Ross Evans, Aniket Khasgiwale, Aaran Mohann, David Howse) on 605 points

1st RUNNERS UP: AUSTRALIA GREEN (Mick Logue, Rohan Williams, Rick Bakker, Ewan Munro) on 556 points

2nd RUNNERS UP: MALAYSIA A (Movin Miranda, Nicholas Pang, Susan Philip and Ashok Philip) on a razor thin 553 points

and honorable mention to INDIA who were pipped by 6 points on 547 points.


What a championship. What a titanic finale, with that crazy undercurrent of tension from Green, India and Malaysia, all knowing that 10 points is all that separated the three teams almost all the way. Almost like playing a University Challenge video game but in three player mode while Gold are already ahead as Amol Rajan. 


See you all in Vietnam or Manila next year. We await both bids, and the only thing that can be certain after all this is after KOTA KINABALU, COLOMBO (which is nowhere in Malaysia) and PENANG (which Movin and I took >5 hours each to travel to so it is NOT our home), we are more than ready to hand over the hosting duties to another state. So take a bow, and goodbye from Movin and Nicholas your gracious hosts for 2022-24. 








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