Zephyr '08 - BITSians Fight it out!

Zephyr '08, the Intra-campus Cultural, Technical & Sports Fest of BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, concluded this Sunday. 13 Hostels (11 Boys + 2 Girls) fight out for 4 days to emerge as the winner, with events like Fashion Parade, Dance Duo, Solo Singing, T-Shirt Designing, Contraption, Tug of War etc. Last year, CH1 (My hostel), came 2nd, closely beaten by CH4 (one of the girls hostel). This time, it was the other way round, with CH1 beating CH4 (Even though there is a huge advantage on CH4's side. Guess what :P ) Anyway we still managed with some 3000 5400 points, and beat CH4 with a difference of 25 points :D I took part in 4 events, and here are the results: (Click on the Event name to know more!) Mock TalkShow : 1st Prize (With Betting)

Participants are given different personalities, and they need to give a 1 minute monologue followed by a TalkShow round. I got THE JOKER (Dark Knight) and had Nikhil Samuel to help me get the make up. And that Nikhil is AWESOME!! Apart from me, the finalists were Bobby Darling (By Nishant), Gabbar Singh (By Ishan V), Jim Carey (Dhairya), Lalu & George Bush. Nishant came second, missing the first spot by just 1 mark, followed by Lalu. It was fun, but sadly no one took the Video. :(

Spot Sketching : 1st Prize (With Betting)

In a team of 2, participants have to sketch one by one and the second one has to merge the first one's sketch. Both are given different themes. Me and Nikhil took part and I got "Life in Heaven" as my theme. Nikhil was then given "Life in Hell" as the theme and he merged both amazingly, with a great sketch (He's god at sketching). And we won! :)

Codatholon : 1st Prize

This was the most unexpected (And I guess i'm as proud about winning this, as I'm of my Joker performance). First round was on Herbert, where you need to design the most optimized algorithm to cover all white spots (It has its own language, using L,R,S (Straight) and recursive functions). Second round had 2 C++ questions. What made this victory special was the fact that I beat 4th & 3rd yearites, including Rohan Anil & Rakesh, who are head of Free Open Source Softwares & Networking of CSD (Center of Software Development) respectively. Infact Rohan Anil went for Google Summer of Code this vacation, and beating him was the best feeling ever!

Street Play : 2nd Prize

A bit weird, but I still feel we didn't deserve the 2nd prize. We completed writing the script an hour before event, got ourselves the last slot and made it just in time for our chance. And still managed to come 2nd (Though I felt AH5 were much better.. Saw a bit of their performance).

Here's me (Center), Sudarshan (L) & Rituj in a scene. Sitting from L to R: Pao, Parag, Doodie, Salil

In total, I earned some 1,675 points for CH1 :D This was more of a self praising post (Come on, I can do that once a while right?) Anyway how was your experience of Zephyr? If you aren't from BITS, then do comment about your college fests...!! ;)