CAMEOZ!

What a week it’s been! We’re simply overwhelmed! We’d promised to ‘enthrall, enchant and mesmerize’ you with Confluenz. For once, you guys totally outclassed us… and left us shocked, stunned and bewildered!

What an amazing response it’s been to Confluenz – the Literary Day v2.0! Take a bow, Presidency. You put all our calculations to shame, beat all our wildest expectations and had us gasping for breath! That massive flood of entries sent all our schedules haywire and left us in a tizzy!

Picasso seems to have caught everyone’s fancy. The game caught on like a wildfire… We got inundated with so many entries that - against our will - we HAD TO stop registering new entrants!

Even the painstakingly-made schedule that you ripped apart couldn’t accommodate EVERYONE. We’re sorry! You guys were just too many!

Turncoat saw some excellent points being made, on a platform that Cameoz is very proud to have been able to provide!

Not in our most far-flung fancy did we imagine that there’d be so many takers for Mock’in’ Interview. We got 2 sheets full of participants. Where were we going to accommodate all of them?

Don’t even ask us about Spin-A-Yarn. For the first time in our club history, we actually had to cancel something we’d spend so much time preparing. Just because of the sheer number of the entries that a one-day event couldn’t possibly accommodate!

The number of Creative Writing and Poetry Writing entries we received has more than doubled this time.

What’s our pick of the day? Chaoz!- The Treasure Hunt!

It was our version of the game that had contestants flex all their mental and physical muscles, in one thrilling roller coaster ride! The extremely closely pitched battle between the B.Sc team and the BCA team, followed closely by the B.Com and BBM teams gave us a lifetime’s worth of adrenaline rush! The B.Sc team won in the end in a hair-raising, nail-biting climax! Congratulations! We never thought any living human could break all those clues… or perform those crazy tasks! You guys were simply awesome!

Thanks to you, our first attempt at a Treasure Hunt game was a humongous success!

As the entries flooded in, we had to mercilessly strike off - one by one - the band performance, skits, audience games and even the DJ. We didn’t even have time to accommodate a few minutes of music!

Despite our event schedule being shredded to pieces, and all the heartbreak we had to endure at canceling our painstakingly designed events – we still thank you for participating in Confluenz!! You kept us on our toes!

We thank the wonderful Judges – Ms. Nitika, Ms. Reshmi, and Ms. Babitha for generously taking upon themselves the arduous task of choosing the winners!

We also offer our most heartfelt gratitude towards all the volunteers – Aflal and Sumit for staying up entire nights designing all those creative posters - without a single utter of complaint, Roshan and Nikki who were game to the unenviable and enormous task of facing the onslaught of mass registrations, Naveen, who made the MC’s job a walk-in-the park by efficiently and effortlessly ironing out all the backstage glitches, Abhilasha, Nischala , Shreeja, Harsha and Shweta, for the generous and enthusiastic help in painting and designing the banners. Thank you all for all the zillion small things that can’t possibly be recounted here. We also thank all the participants who waited patiently for the whole day, only to see their event put off. Their good-natured understanding touched us in a big way. We promise we won’t let you down again!

A big ‘Thank You’ is due to Ms. Yvonne Rasquinha, the Principal, for putting her faith in us. Madam, we shall always strive to live up to your expectations of us!

Our one major regret about the day was the inability to have the entire college take part as an audience. The contestants deserved a standing ovation for their commendable performances. Hopefully, next time we won’t let down a single participant… and with your undying support, make Confluenz even bigger!