The winners will join the top two teams from the other three zones establishing their place in the National Finals to be held in Mumbai on Apr 19.

The sharpest minds from campuses across premiere institutions like Gauhati University-Guahati, IIFT-Kolkata, IIM-Raipur, GITAM University-Vizag, KIIT-Bhubaneswar, NIT- Patna, NIT- Jamshedpur, IIT-BHU-Varanasi and VSSUT Burla-Ranchi battled it out at the Zone 2 finals of the quiz which was a showcase of intellect and wit.

Zone 2 finals witnessed participation from xxx teams across 9 eastern cities including Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Guwahati, Patna Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar, Raipur, Ranchi and Varanasi.

Addressing a packed auditorium and awarding the winners and runners up at both the regional and zonal levels, Chief Guest Abraham George Stephanos, Managing director, Tata Steel processing and Distribution Limited, Kolkata said, “ I want to congratulate all the teams for such an exciting afternoon of quizzing. There were all terrific.”

The mega-event was preceded by the Kolkata regional round where 6 teams across various colleges in the city participated. Kunal Malhotra and Viraj Bake from IIFT emerged as the winners of the Kolkata regional rounds. Deepak Thomas and Abhishek Sundar from IIM were declared as the runners up. The 4 other finalists were Rachit Kamdar and Vaibhav Mogra from St’Xaviers,Mayank Singhal and Dhanoj J from IIM,  Bedbyas Dutta and Reesom Pal from Jadavpur University, Sai Bharath and Viswajit Singh from IIFT.

The first of the zonal finals will be held in Kolkata (Zone 2). This will be followed by Bengaluru (Zone 4), Mumbai (Zone 3) and New Delhi (Zone 1).The top two teams from each zone will compete against each other at the National Finals to be held in Mumbai where the winning team  would be crowned as the National Champions of this year’s Tata Crucible Campus Quiz.