Tapa Variations Contest - VIII

Organizer

Serkan Yurekli

About TVC

Puzzles for TVCs are written by Serkan Yurekli

Cumulative Score

Normalization for each contest is done using formula (Competitor's score)/(Contest Total Score)*(Contest Value)*100. Contest Values are 1.0, 1.1, 1.25 and 1.4 in order from V to VIII.

Daily Puzzles

• Classic Tapa Contest

Tapa Variations Contests

• Tapa Variations Contest - XII
• Tapa Variations Contest - XI
• Tapa Variations Contest - X
• Tapa Variations Contest - IX
• Tapa Variations Contest - VIII
• Tapa Variations Contest - VII
• Tapa Variations Contest - VI
• Tapa Variations Contest - V

Annual Contests

• Forsmarts 3² Anniversary
• Snake Variations Contest 2011

2012 Monthly Tests

• No Numbers
• Sudoku 8X8
• Killing Time
• Diagonal Vision
• Puzzle Marathon
• Shapes and Sizes

2011 Monthly Tests

• Best of LMI Puzzle Tests
• Best of LMI Mocks
• Puzzle Fusion
• Screen Test #2
• 2011 Double Decathlon
• Sudoku A or B
• Crazy Arrows
• LMI Sprint Test
• Japanese Puzzle Land
• Sudoku City
• Magic Cube
• Fivefold Sudoku Test
• Nikoli Selection 2011
• LOGIDOKU
• Fillomino Fillia
• Something is Missing
• MAYnipulation
• LMI April Sudoku Test
• Twist
• LMI Spring Sudoku Test
• Puzzle Hybrids
• Melon's Puzzle Zoo
• Double Delight
• Prime Exotica
• Puzzle Jackpot

2010 Monthly Tests

• X'Mas Special Sudoku
• Puzzles & Chess
• Screen Test #1
• FLIP
• Renban Grouped Sudokus
• 20/10 Puzzle Decathlon
• Nikoli Selection 2010
• Sudoku Hotpot
• EverGreens II
• Broken Pieces
• Qixi Festivale Special
• Sampler Platter
• Classic Look-Alikes
• EverGreens
• SPEED SIXES
• Master Mind Twins

Mock Tests

• Sudoku Mock Test 21
• Sudoku Mock Test 20
• Sudoku Mock Test 19
• Sudoku Mock Test 18
• Sudoku Mock Test 17
• Sudoku Mock Test 16
• Sudoku Mock Test 15
• Sudoku Mock Test 14
• Sudoku Mock Test 13
• Sudoku Mock Test 12
• Sudoku Mock Test 11
• Sudoku Mock Test 10
• Sudoku Mock Test 9
• Sudoku Mock Test 8
• Sudoku Mock Test 7
• Sudoku Mock Test 6
• Sudoku Mock Test 5
• Sudoku Mock Test 4

Description	Size	Download Count	Password
Instructions Booklet    Download    |    View	172kB	1129
Puzzles Booklet    Download	109kB	824	MAK311andMAK362
Tapa Master 2011 Trophy Puzzle    Download    |    View	78kB	138
List Of Tapa Variations    Download    |    View	322kB	746

TVC Cumulative Score

Cum Rank	User Details			# Of Contests			V		VI		VII		VIII		Cum Score
	Id	Name	Country	TVCs	Top3	Top10	R	S	R	S	R	S	R	S
1	flooser	Florian Kirch	Germany	4	2	3	3	841	4	938	3	1039	15	582	331.49
2	motris	Thomas Snyder	USA	4	2	4	1	841	1	938	5	1033	4	762	330.79
3	Psyho	abc	Poland	4	2	4	5	777	3	938	6	998	2	790	319.09
4	pwahs	Philipp Weiß	Germany	3	1	3	4	812	2	938	7	934			315.77
5	uvo	Ulrich Voigt	Germany	4	1	3	8	691	13	832	1	1069	9	630	304.73
6	tarotaro	Taro Arimatsu	Japan	4	1	2	13	602	8	893	12	868	3	787	298.04
7	Nikola	Nikola	Serbia	4		3	6	756	7	893	11	872	5	722	296.58
8	deu	Hideaki Jo	Japan	4		2	9	689	12	832	8	911	12	590	286.02
9	andreybogdanov	Andrey Bogdanov	Russia	4	2	2	2	841	32	495	2	1069	30	404	283.05
10	Valezius	Zoltan Horvath	Hungary	4	1	2	14	590	10	856	16	726	1	811	279.89
11	misko	Michael Ley	Germany	4		3	7	741	16	735	9	887	10	613	278.02
12	willwc	William Blatt	USA	4		1	15	587	5	917	13	818	18	551	272.99
13	Janka1	Janka1	Czech Republic	3		1	18	557	11	856	10	885			270.1
14	MellowMelon	Palmer Mebane	USA	3		2	19	549			4	1035	8	684	266.1
15	Kota	Kota Morinishi	Japan	4		1	17	562	6	908	20	700	31	398	255.16
16	bskbri	Salih Alan	Turkey	4			16	569	15	770	14	792	17	552	250.57
17	muhorka	Matej Uher	Slovakia	4		1	24	456	18	663	15	730	6	707	245.59
18	Para	Bram de Laat	The Netherlands	3		2			9	872	46	349	7	706	225.44
19	sugitakukun	Takuya Sugimoto	Japan	4			25	454	14	778	21	673	36	337	223.92
20	S_Aoki	Shinichi Aoki	Japan	4			11	628	17	663	25	538	32	380	215.33
21	martin	Martin Merker	Germany	4			21	527	28	575	18	706	44	281	212.65
22	kiwijam	James McGowan	United Kingdom	3					29	574	23	603	11	597	207.47
23	pixl	Lukasz Bozykowski	Poland	4			27	445	23	634	28	521	16	578	202.7
24	tomek_s	Tomasz Strózak	Poland	4			20	536	21	645	26	537	27	429	202.17
25	takeya	Takeya Saikachi	Japan	4			34	402	19	650	24	569	20	494	200.39
26	daisuke_t	TAKEI Daisuke	Japan	3			22	481	20	645			19	521	193.62
27	drsteve	Steven Barge	United Kingdom	4		1	10	657	47	366	52	314	13	588	189.64
28	Rohan Rao	Rohan Rao	India	4			28	435	31	499	22	627	39	310	183.56
29	Calavera	Nils Miehe	Germany	4			33	406	44	392	17	711	24	445	183.33
30	skywalker	Branko Ceranic	Serbia	3			23	477	24	614	38	441			180.29
31	nyuta	NAGATA Yuta	Japan	4			35	397	25	613	39	438	22	467	177.59
32	Ziti	Jason Zuffranieri	USA	4			39	359	41	407	29	491	14	586	173.51
33	rubben	Rubben	Romania	4			29	418	30	553	35	454	46	271	167.64
34	volxa		Japan	4			32	406	39	468	34	479	25	441	162.34
35	Deyan	Deyan Razsadov	Bulgaria	3			26	446	26	596			43	288	156.53
36	forcolin	stefano forcolin	Italy	4			31	409	51	351	31	488	42	291	146.86
37	tamz29	Tawan Sunathvanichkul	Thailand	4			37	383	55	324	33	486	37	327	140.52
38	rob	Robert Vollmert	Germany	3			41	335			41	411	23	451	140.51
39	David McNeill	David McNeill	United Kingdom	4			53	279	36	474	40	434	48	263	139.51
40	rimodech	rimodech	serbia	3			50	295	35	475			28	416	139.31
41	jrivet	Jonathan Rivet	USA	4			54	277	37	469	43	381	35	339	139.1
42	figonometry	Terrence Newton	Canada	3			48	302	46	367			21	470	133.78
43	enta	Yoichi Enta	Japan	4			83	156	48	366	44	369	34	350	126.9
44	Gotroch	Jakub Hrazdira	Czech Republic	4			86	142	42	396	36	444	54	231	125.31
45	pafcio123	pafcio123	poland	3			45	316	38	469	60	275			124.73
46	Vincent	Vincent Bertrand	Belgium	2					27	596			26	430	120.06
47	dodine	Claudine Thiry	Luxembourg	3			43	332			65	266	29	412	118.65
48	RickU	Rick Uppelschoten	Netherlands	2							19	703	45	277	114.52
49	DreamRose311	Kristin Stearns	USA	4			68	217	53	338	53	314	38	310	112.52
50	SKnight	Jack Bross	United States	4			51	293	49	363	66	265	40	299	112.29
51	rakesh_rai	Rakesh Rai	India	4			42	332	67	278	49	336	73	90	111.37
52	hayam		Japan	4			76	179	33	488	84	142	52	237	106.16
53	aldentea	Satoshi ANDO	Japan	4			40	341	68	276	92	53	47	271	104.53
54	Akuma21	Giovanni Frugoli	Italy	4			67	219	74	249	42	403	62	177	102.36
55	MauFirenze	Maurizio Corti	Italy	4			101	66	76	239	69	260	33	365	101.01
56	zorko	s.stefanov	Bulgaria	4			57	271	56	319	67	264	77	72	100.5
57	mucha	Marcin Mucha	Poland	2					61	301	27	529			97.16
58	Nola		Germany	4			58	267	84	206	50	331	55	227	96.94
59	nickdeller	Nick Deller	United Kingdom	4			80	169	65	281	48	340	61	187	94.53
60	mackokajka	Martin Kollar	Slovakia	4			52	288	63	292	76	222	78	62	94.45
61	anderson	Anderson Wang	United States	2							30	489	41	299	92.06
62	ColinMacLeod	Trayton Otto	USA	4			84	149	80	229	51	318	51	240	92.04
63	Eugene		Russia	2			30	417	50	355					91.21
64	GaS	Gabriele Carelli	Italy	4			78	171	54	327	61	274	82	14	90.72
65	puzzlemad	Liane Robinson	United Kingdom	4			59	267	58	310	83	154	58	191	90.39
66	HuDu	Rainer Biegler	Germany	4			77	173	57	316	58	279	66	133	90.25
67	chimp59	Paul Slater	United Kingdom	3			70	215	75	239	63	273			85.51
68	aj0816		Germany	3			69	217	45	368			65	135	84.71
69	boing	Ben	USA	2			44	323	43	394					84.61
70	kate	kate	Russia	2					34	483	71	239			84.59
71	Christian	Romon	France	4			61	250	71	260	80	190	57	195	82.97
72	skrzypl1	Lukasz Skrzypczynski	Poland	4			74	191	93	168	68	260	49	244	81.58
73	dm_litv	Dmitry Litvinenko	Russia	3			66	219	79	235	73	232			80.73
74	Rick	Rick Uppelschoten	Netherlands	2			36	391	64	290					80.5
75	fatihkamer	fatih kamer	TURKEY	4			56	273	90	174	77	219	81	46	78.47
76	Ours brun	Bastien Vial-Jaime	France	3			90	129	92	171	45	358			77.25
77	suboree	Gulce Ozkutuk Yurekli	Turkey	1					22	643					75.41
78	Mischa	Mischa	The Netherlands	4			85	145	99	149	62	273	56	206	73.43
79	Semax	Sebastian Matschke	Germany	1			12	604							71.82
80	StGeorge	Georgi Stoychev	Bulgaria	2			47	309			56	291			70.77
81	fenix86	Jakub Prabucki	Poland	3					86	191	55	305	71	103	70.08
82	radekivv	Radek Lopusnik	USA	4			82	159	102	109	72	239	63	177	67.5
83	Fernando	Fernando López Gregorio	Argentina	4			98	90	81	224	85	137	60	188	64.22
84	alberto	Alberto Fabris	Italy	2			55	275	73	251					62.13
85	zuziik	Zuzana Hromcova	Slovakia	2			49	299			75	223			61.63
86	garconnet	Garçonnet	france	2			64	226	62	294					61.35
87	brianklimek	Brian Klimek	USA	3			108	23	70	265			53	233	60.99
88	pet	kaoru shibata	japan	2			63	227	66	280					59.83
89	rachelinator	Pawel Rachel	Poland	2					98	159	47	346			59.1
90	chrisek	Krzysztof Szulc	Poland	3			97	92	95	168	70	241			58.82
91	pcelicamaja	Maja Gribajcevic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3			96	104	87	191	79	190			56.98
92	ByronosaurusRex	Byron Calver	Canada	1							32	486			56.83
93	TroyS	Troy Schnabel	USA	4			88	136	96	167	82	179	80	46	56.69
94	anurag	anurag	India	3			62	242	97	161			74	76	56.52
95	bartunio	Bartek Witkowski	Poland	2					85	195	64	269			54.32
96	harmeet	harmeet	India	2			75	181			59	277			53.91
97	patrycja	Patrycja	Poland	4			95	108	105	78	78	218	67	133	53.85
98	ute	Ute Storost	Germany	3			79	171			88	94	59	188	53.26
99	detuned	Tom Collyer	United Kingdom	1							37	444			51.92
100	dahunor	Daday Hunor	Romania	3					101	141	81	189	69	109	51.35
101	CHalb	Christian Halberstadt	Germany	3			102	63	69	270			70	104	51.29
102	Randiman	Randy Rogers	USA	2			73	195	78	235					50.75
103	caudmont	sylvain caudmont	FRANCE	2			91	119	60	305					49.92
104	sakatan	Masashi Sakata	Japan	1					40	423					49.61
105	Tejal Phatak	Tejal Phatak	India	3			106	40			57	280	79	60	44.5
106	Rudolph	German Anonymous	Germany	2			72	201	91	172					44.07
107	garganega	Veronika Lengauer	Germany	1			38	363							43.16
108	amitsowani	Amit Sowani	India	1					52	338					39.64
109	snakeeyes	Liao Ran	China	4			93	109	100	146	90	70	75	75	38.83
110	pista	Stefan Gaspar	Slovakia	1			46	310							36.86
111	rajeshk	Rajesh	India	1					59	308					36.12
112	ticklerickle	Rick	USA	1							54	307			35.9
113	Markku	Markku Lahti	Finland	2					88	190			68	111	35.23
114	peluri	Jouni J Särkijärvi	Finland	2			107	29	72	257					33.59
115	Voda	Zdenek Vodicka	Czech Republic	2					89	179	87	102			32.92
116	greenhorn	Matus Demiger	Slovakia	1			60	260							30.92
117	kwaka	Seungjae Kwak	South Korea	1									50	241	28.12
118	agabum	Agnieszka Buczma	Poland	1					77	235					27.56
119	Zadig	Javier Cucalon	spain	3			100	75	103	93	91	66			27.54
120	wicktroll	Viktor Lapis	Hungary	1							74	229			26.78
121	zhergan	Zafer Huseyin ERGAN	Turkey	1			65	222							26.4
122	bacmag	Daniele Filippone	italy	1					82	223					26.15
123	sinchai4547	Sinchai R.	Thailand	1					83	218					25.57
124	Gisha	Dragan Tolomanoski	Bosnia	1			71	204							24.26
125	zehendner	Eberhard Zehendner	DE	1			81	169							20.1
126	SCORPPROCS	Taner Karabulut	Turkey	1									64	172	20.07
127	ronosher	Ron Osher	usa	1					94	168					19.7
128	northkk	northkk	Taiwan	1			87	141							16.77
129	prasanna16391	prasanna seshadri	India	2			103	61	104	81					16.75
130	A Carton Mutant	Murat Can Tonta	Turkey	1			89	133							15.81
131	tabascq	Kenny Young	USA	1			92	114							13.56
132	brubakee	Erik Brubaker	USA	1			94	108							12.84
133	davmillar	David Millar	USA	1							86	107			12.51
134	reesylou	Maree Cassidy	Australia	1									72	95	11.08
135	Neeraj	Neeraj Surana	INDIA	1							89	90			10.52
136	watermaximillion	Max Chang	United States	1			99	83							9.87
137	bereolos	Peter Bereolos	USA	1									76	74	8.63
138	logik66	logik66	germany	1					106	67					7.86
139	vkurt	vefa kurt	Turkey	1			104	61							7.25
140	gpagano	gpagano	USA	1			105	43							5.11
141	chrisbattey	Chris Battey	USA	1					107	24					2.81

Tapa Variations Contest - VIII Results

#	UserId	Name	Country	TotalPoints	Penalty	NumCorrect	TimeTillLCS
1	Valezius	Zoltan Horvath	Hungary	811	-36	14/15	070:27
2	Psyho	abc	Poland	790	0	13/15	071:04
3	tarotaro	Taro Arimatsu	Japan	787	-72	14/14	078:48
4	motris	Thomas Snyder	USA	762	-90	14/15	079:17
5	Nikola	Nikola	Serbia	722	-54	13/14	077:57
6	muhorka	Matej Uher	Slovakia	707	0	12/12	073:04
7	Para	Bram de Laat	The Netherlands	706	0	10/11	072:00
8	MellowMelon	Palmer Mebane	USA	684	0	11/13	073:16
9	uvo	Ulrich Voigt	Germany	630	0	11/12	069:57
10	misko	Michael Ley	Germany	613	-36	11/12	076:30
11	kiwijam	James McGowan	United Kingdom	597	0	11/12	073:24
12	deu	Hideaki Jo	Japan	590	-54	11/12	077:27
13	drsteve	Steven Barge	United Kingdom	588	-54	10/13	077:06
14	Ziti	Jason Zuffranieri	USA	586	0	8/8	069:59
15	flooser	Florian Kirch	Germany	582	-36	11/13	076:28
16	pixl	Lukasz Bozykowski	Poland	578	-72	10/10	078:46
17	bskbri	Salih Alan	Turkey	552	0	8/14	073:58
18	willwc	William Blatt	USA	551	-18	11/12	075:11
19	daisuke_t	TAKEI Daisuke	Japan	521	-54	8/8	077:24
20	takeya	Takeya Saikachi	Japan	494	0	7/8	074:03

PuzzleId	Submissions	Correct	Ratings	AvgRatings	SolutionCode
Arrows Tapa	28	26	3	7.33	1111#114
Hungarian Tapa	35	34	3	7	----2143#123--4--
Knapp Daneben Tapa	40	37	3	7.66	44#1111
Matchmaker Grid 1	36	30	2	7	211#24
Matchmaker Grid 2	16	9	1	2	0#0
Matchmaker Grid 3	38	33	2	8.5	23#211
Matchmaker Grid 4	32	25	2	8.5	221#312
Matchmaker Grid 5	35	16	2	5.5	6----31-#--21-2--
Matchmaker Grid 6	31	20	2	7.5	123#21
Outside Tapa	26	24	3	8.33	3#211
Peers Tapa	61	57	3	6.66	112#5
Roman Tapa (Easy)	24	22	3	6	2111#1111
Roman Tapa (Hard)	10	8	2	6	161#35
Tapa Quad	62	60	3	7.66	113#121
Tapa Row	31	26	2	6	411#311
Tapa Shape	42	42	3	8	21111#2111
Tapamino (Easy)	28	22	2	8.5	2-1-1-55#--444---