Poseidon 2005: ISB

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Dear Labyrinth participants,

We would like to thank you for taking part in the Labyrinth - Online Treasure Hunt organized by the Technology club at ISB. We hope you all found Labyrinth a memorable experience.

The final round of the event was played on Sunday, December 11th, 2005 by the 35 finalist teams. The competition was really stiff and amazingly many teams cracked all six hunts in less than two hours. We have now enabled access to allow all teams to sample the clues and answers of the final “rapid Fire” and “Treasure Trove” round. All teams may logon to the Labyrinth website to check them out and tickle some more grey cells

Wishing you the best of luck and life full of treasures…

Cheers
Team Labyrinth

Please find attached the results of the event.

Top three teams are as follows:

First Prize: Rs. 20,000
Intel
ChipHunters
Sudhindra Pandav, Shobhit Kanaujia

Second Prize: Rs. 15,000
Microsoft
MSHunters
Kapil Mantri, Nitish Khadiya

Third Prize: Rs. 10,000
Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad(MICA)
The Seals Retarded
Lakshana, Sarika Chuni, Prateek Sinha,Ashish Pandey

The runners up teams are as follows:

Runner’s up: Rs 1000
Microsoft India
Cheesemovers
Arun Mehta, Bala Dutt, Jyoti Kumar, Pranav Mistry

Runner’s up: Rs 1000
Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, Bangalore (XIME-B)
Decoders
Srinivas. H.S, Sathishkumar S, Vinita Bhura

Runner’s up: Rs 1000
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Kartik Ramakrishnan, Shilpa Arora, Anoop Vijaykumar

Runner’s up: Rs 1000
Wipro Technologies
Dumb-el-Doers
Nitin Unni, Amit Soni, Karthik Srinivasan

Runner’s up: Rs 1000
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad
The Hounds of ISBVille
Sanjoy Ghosh, Bhagyashri Shinde, Rishi Raj, Kaushik Sinha

Dear Labyrinth Finalists,

We hope you have enjoyed the culminating round of Labyrinth - Online Treasure Hunt. We will consolidate the scores of the teams soon, and you can expect to know the results within the next two days.

The results will be emailed to all finalist teams and will also be made available at the official Poseidon blog (Yes, here!)

The Labyrinth team has worked day and night to make your experience a memorable one. We hope we could keep you all interested, intrigued and excited. We welcome your feedback and look forward to hearing back from you.

Here is wishing you the best of luck and life full of treasures…

Cheers
Team Labyrinth

Dear Labyrinth hunters,

Congratulations for making it to the last and final round of “Treasure hunting”. We promise to make the final round even more exciting and adventurous. Please note the rules of this rapid fire round:

1. This round will run for two hours from 9:00pm to 11:00pm.
2. This stage will comprise of five “rapid-fire” hunts and a “Treasure Trove”.
3. The hunts will start one after the other at an interval of 15 minutes. The first hunt starts at 9:00pm, second one at 9:15pm and so on. The last hunt will start at 10:15pm.
3. Clue for “Treasure Trove” will be released along with the first “rapid-fire” hunt i.e. at 9:00pm
4. The first five “rapid-fire” hunts will have a common theme, which will help answer the last called the “Treasure Trove”.
5. Each correct answer to the “rapid-fire” hunts will earn 50 points
6. The “Treasure Trove” hunt will be worth 50 points; an additional bonus equal to minutes remaining till 11pm will be awarded for solving the treasure trove. Therefore the sooner you crack the “Treasure Trove” the more points you will gain.
7. The maximum points any team can score is 480 (10 points for each of the 6 trivia preceding the hunts, 50 points each for the six hunts and a maximum of 120 bonus points for the “Treasure Trove”)
8. The game ends at 11pm and all hunts will close down at this time. You can resubmit your answers for any clue till 11:00 PM, however the final timestamp of submission will be taken to evaluate the time taken for submission.
9. The team with maximum overall points in this round for all hunts wins the game. In case of a tie, the overall time taken for stage 3 starting 9pm will be used as tie-breaker.
10. Some clues might have flash content. Please ensure your system supports flash software. You can try running few applications to ensure that flash enabled web pages are able to run on your computer. Please do not refresh flash pages again, as this will reset your page and you have to start from scratch.

- Labyrinth team

Dear Labyrinth Hunters,

We sincerely hope you have enjoyed Labyrinth treasure hunt so far. This has been an extremely competitive event and the teams have demonstrated amazing creativity. We had incredible participation in this event from over 340 teams. Since the turnout and performance has been beyond our expectation, we have decided to advance 35 teams to the next and final round to make it possible for at least 10% of the teams to test their wits in the rapid fire round. We thank all the teams for their enthusiastic participation. Following is the list of the finalist teams in alphabetical order of their team names:

Team Name
Institute/Company

Black Hat
Kanbay

bladerunners
Google Online

Centurion and the maniple
Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Cheese Movers
Microsoft

ChipHunters
Intel

Cryptic Quartet
Google Online India Pvt. Ltd.

Decoders
XIME

Desperados
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd.

Desperate Commies
ISB

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
ISB

Dumb-el-Doers
Wipro Technologies

Erised
CSC India Pvt.Ltd.

GOOGetters
GOOGLE

googlvid
Google Online India Pvt Ltd

Harbingers
CSC India Pvt. Ltd.

icarus
ISB

Labrats
Microsoft

MAVERICK2
Indian School of Business

Microsoft
Microsoft

MSHunters
Microsoft

Networkers
HCL Technologies Ltd. Cisco Div.

OLIVES
XIME

Priory of Sion
Cognizant

Ragnarok
XIME

Ratalooooo
CSC

ronin
IIM Calcutta

Shapers
NMIMS

Taskars
Infosys Technologies

Thangamey Gnanathangamey
Infosys Technologies

The Alchemists
XIME

The Hounds of ISBVille
ISB

The Hunters
NMIMS

The Seals Retarded
MICA

Theseus
Microsoft

Wackos
Microsoft

We congratulate all the teams for their excellent participation and wish the finalist teams the very best of luck! Details of the next round will be notified to the finalist teams shortly.

- LABYRINTH TEAM.

Hot news: Around 350 teams have registered for LABYRINTH - ONLINE TREASURE HUNT.

Lot of progress has been made towards Poseidon. The marketing efforts of the event coordinators and the quality of the events is evident from the overwhelming response. Some of the events have attracted 100+ participants so far!

LABYRINTH: 350!
KRYPTOS: 155!
SYMPOSIUM: 120
EUREQA: 120

Other top events in terms of number of participants:

NEGOTIATUS: 80
ODYSSEY: 56
TEMPEST: 54
CEREBRUM: 50
ENERGEIA: 50
OLYMPIEIA: 48
PEGASUS: 46
RHETORIUM: 45
DRACHMA: 45
BIRTHDAY AHOY: 40

LABYRINTH organizers have seen some amazingly quick responses for their supposedly tough clues [< 30 minutes]. So they have increased the difficulty level of the clues. Now only very few teams are able to crack the clue quicker. Many are unable to crack the clue! From what I have heard, an intense war is being fought...Keep watching this space.

In the mean time, shortlists have been announced for various events.

TEMPEST - SHORTLIST
SYMPOSIUM - SHORTLIST [6 teams from 120!]
PEGASUS - SHORTLIST
DRACHMA - SHORTLIST
KRYPTOS - SHORTLIST [6 teams from 155!]
OLYMPEIA - SHORTLIST
ENERGEIA - SHORTLIST

There’s more. The ‘Fashion Show - ELYSIUM’ will be a star attraction (& sheer fun) in POSEIDON - 2005. We are receiving new registrations daily. Since ISB is also participating in this event, shortlisting of ‘hot’ guys and gals is going on…

Due to unavoidable circumstances, the “Rock show” is dropped from our agenda. Now we have a “Music Competition” event in place of the Rock Show.

“…Sing, sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong
Sing of good things not bad
Sing of happy not sad.
Sing, sing a song

Is the musician in you raring to come out? Have you been waiting for an opportunity to let your creative juices flow?
The wait is over. The Music Club @ ISB gives you this unique chance to set the stage on fire with your institution’s band….”

You can find more about the event in the following link:

http://www.isb.edu/poseidon/info/octavia.asp

Deadlines for various events are updated…Please refer to the following table..

Event name	Club	Submission Deadline	First round results	Date of Event	Submission Email
Energeia - Case Competition	Energy	Deadline Extended to 30-Nov(Midnight)	3-Dec(Midnight)	17-Dec	energeia@isb.edu
Olympiea - Technology Innovation Challenge	Business and Technology	Deadline Extended to 30-Nov(Midnight)	3-Dec(Midnight)	16-Dec	tech-innovation@isb.edu
Tempest - Venture World	Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital	Deadline Extended to 30-Nov(Midnight)	3-Dec(Midnight)	17-Dec	tempest@isb.edu
Pegasus - Research Paper Competition	Emerging Markets	Deadline extended to 30-Nov(Midnight)	3-Dec(Midnight)	17-Dec	pegasus@isb.edu
Drachma - Equity Research Competition	Finance	Deadline extended to 30-Nov(Midnight)	3-Dec(Midnight)	17-Dec	drachma@isb.edu
Symposium - Case Competition	Marketing	Deadline extended to 28-Nov(Midnight)	2-Dec(Midnight)	17-Dec	symposium@isb.edu
Birthdays ahoy	Photography	12-Dec	15-Dec	Online	birthdays@isb.edu

The Business Technology Club is happy to announce the launch of a unique online Treasure hunt event - “LΛBΨRINTH”.

It’s a unique online treasure hunt that will engage participating teams from across the globe. Clues will be cryptic technology related hints posted on the Poseidon website that will require teams to think and research. Participating teams will have to register and will be given daily clues on the website over a period of a two weeks before Poseidon. It would be required to solve each stage to proceed to the next level…

Labyrinth is a multi-stage, multi-clue event. The detailed description of the event can be viewed here:

http://www.isb.edu/poseidon/info/labyrinth.asp

Last week, we conducted a simulation of Labyrinth (of course with easy set of questions!) to identify any bugs, hack-possibilities, load bearing etc., We managed to uncover many bugs and ultimately fixed it. Now the event website is quite stable and secure. Going by the amount of preparation done by the Labyrinth organizers, the treasure hunt will HIGHLY challenge our grey cells…

Dear everyone…

We are happy to announce the Marketing Club events in Poseidon 2005. Please find attached the event descriptions for the same.

SYMPΘSIUM

Are you creative with an analytical mind? Do you enjoy problem solving? Can you step into the shoes of a marketing manager and decide how to battle it out in the marketplace. If so, you are invited to participate in Symposium, the annual marketing case competition at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Teams will be given a marketing problem to solve - it may be a company which needs help in launching a product, a product which is threatened by cheap imports, or a company which has international connections but hasn’t reached its full global potential.

www.isb.edu/poseidon/info/symposium.asp

KRΨPTΘS

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less.’

`The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master-that’s all.”

(Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass)

Can you really see through what advertisers and marketers are trying to do? Can you understand the underlying thought process for a piece of communication? It is our belief that a marketing manager should have skills in analyzing communication. Kryptos, a marketing club event, will test your knowledge of marketing and your skills in analyzing communication.

www.isb.edu/poseidon/info/kryptos.asp

Regards,
Poseidon Team,