The Chennai cluster of Tata Crucible has always been a keenly watched cluster. Chennai has a long history of wonderful quizzers and young challengers. The finalists, this year, were a combination of regular quizzers and some young qualifiers.
The quiz started with Jayakanthan, the defending champion from the city, taking a negative but regaining ground quickly to lead the quiz early on. Midway into the final Kiran, Vijay and Steven were closing in on Jayakanthan who still had the lead but a narrow one. All the challengers tried their best to get past the defending champion but could not do so. Jayakanthan for his part, played a very mature last round not doing too much but ensuring he was well clear of competition, to clinch another title.
The chief guest Mr. Chacko P. Thomas, Managing Director and CEO – Tata Coffee, spoke of how everyone has been a learner through the pandemic and wished everyone better times.