Thanks everybody for the wonderful response.
Let me take this opportunity to thank team working behind the scenes to make IPC 2010 happen.
The initial plan was of Deb participating in the IPC after a long time (post 2007), with me and Rishi organizing the IPC.
But Deb, being indispensable to the IPC team ended up creating a large number of puzzles and designing the submission interface. Some of these puzzles like the Divisible by 3, Equal to Sudoku ended up being the most appreciated puzzles as expected :)
Rishi chipped in with some of the puzzles even while on paternity leave and most importantly ensured that the server did not let us down during the test duration.
Also thanks to Kshitij Sharma for creating a couple of puzzles for the IPC, both of which were the first time he was creating puzzles for that type. Should serve as some inspiration for participants dabbling around with creating their own puzzles :)
On my part, I did most of the IB and PB compilation, which did leave a lot to be desired, but I'm sure the learning out here would come in good stead while organizing future championships.
And special thanks to Nikola who did not get a chance to defend his IPC 2009 title in giving us quick feedback on puzzle timings and also helping with the answer format.

Yo, thanks to the organizers, the puzzles were a lovely set, going through them felt like a cool breeze. I mean, not literally, but that is the closest I can describe it. Thanks again :)

Edited by aman_pruthi 2010-09-14 11:26 AM

Amit, Deb, Kshitij, Nikola, Rishi (in alphabetical order)

Thanks Branko and Harmeet.
Thanks to Kshitij and Nikola too... :-)

Thanks to the IPC organizers.

Congrats to Thomas, Michael, Branko, Rohan, Rajesh, Gaurav and all these guys who are very good at puzzle
I'm not (yet?) a big fan of puzzles, but as there were a big part of sudoku, I decided to participate. I enjoy some of other puzzles, too

Fred

Congratulations to all winners and to all who participated! The puzzles were very nice and "newbies friendly". I had unfortunately power outage 15 minutes into the competition and solving with candle light in hope that the electricity will come back (it did the same minute the time for submission expired) was not best but still enjoybale. It was at least a nice practice and a good motivation to exted my horizons from sudoku only.