Puzzle Ramayan 2020 at Logic Masters India

About Puzzle Ramayan 2020

This is a national contest aimed at encouraging the best puzzle solvers of India to participate and experience the excitement, thrill and puzzling atmosphere on the lines of various national championships and the World Championships.
The championship consists of 6 online rounds (approximately one every month), based on different themes of Puzzle types and their variants. Most of the themes of 2019 are repeated, with minor changes.
Like previous years, the offline final will have a participation fee which will mainly be to recover venue/food costs. This fee will be updated a little later once the venue is confirmed. The online rounds will continue to be free for all.
There are 3-4* spots for the Indian A team for WPC 2020, which will be decided by this tournament.
*Depending on whether the player awarded a wildcard from WPC 2019 participates.
There will be a separate playoff at the end of the offline finals to determine the Puzzle Ramayan winner. There will be an eligibility criteria for this playoff, as explained below, to preserve the essence of Puzzle Ramayan.

Represented India in A-Team at the World Puzzle Championship at least once in the last 10 years..
Represented India in B-Team / UN-Team at the World Puzzle Championship at least twice in the last 10 years..
Won the Puzzle Ramayan title twice.

The process of filling up the offline finals' slots is the same as last year's process. We want to encourage solvers who aren't near the top yet but still want the experience of an offline final. The eligibility criteria is that the solver must have participated in at least 4 of the 6 online rounds ('participated' here means achieving a non-zero score in the round) OR reaches the top 60 within two or less rounds. After Round 6, we will ask the solvers from 1-30 first and give them a week to confirm participation. After this, registrations will be open to participants from 31-60 for a week, and then it is open to everyone 'eligible' by the criteria above, till we get to 60 participants. After that, due to venue restrictions, we will be ending registrations.
The points total from the online rounds (i.e. the best 4 rounds for each participant) will be considered to give some base points to finalists to start with in the offline round. Specifically, the finalists will start with an average of their best 4 normalized scores.
If online round organizers participate in the offline finals they will automatically get the same base points as the top solver of the online rounds

Top-3 players at the offline finals will be awarded medals / trophies.
All players at the offline finals Under-21yrs and over-50yrs will receive special prizes.
All players travelling from other countries (non-Indians), will receive special prizes.
Best Author(s) will receive a prize (based on Overall Ratings)

The participant must be in the top 3 of the Puzzle Ramayan online rounds considering best four scores.
The participant must be in the top 3 Indians considering the best four scores after six Puzzle Grand Prix rounds.
The participant must produce a soft copy of some proof of residence showing that they are not in India at the time of the offline finals.

Rounds	Author	Dates	India 1	India 2	India 3
Classics	Rakesh Rai	24-29 Jan 2020	Prasanna Seshadri	Rohan Rao	Ashish Kumar
Number and Object Placement	Harmeet Singh and Pranav Kamesh	21-26 Feb 2020	Prasanna Seshadri	Rohan Rao	Ashish Kumar
Shading and Loops	Swaroop Guggilam	20-25 Mar 2020	Prasanna Seshadri	Rohan Rao	Ashish Kumar
Evergreens	Prasanna Seshadri and Priyam Bhushan	17-22 Apr 2020	Ashish Kumar	Amit Sowani	Swaroop Guggilam
Casual & Word	Amit Sowani	22-27 May 2020	Prasanna Seshadri	Rohan Rao	Priyam Bhushan
Made In India & Regions	Ashish Kumar and Anubhav Balodhi	19-25 Jun 2020	Prasanna Seshadri	Rohan Rao	Swaroop Guggilam

All rounds will be open from Friday noon to Tuesday midnight.
All times in Indian Standard Time (GMT+5:30)

In each round, the best Indian score among eligible players will be scaled to 100. Others' scores will be adjusted proportionately.
For International Rankings - The best score in the round will be scaled to 100. Others' scores will be adjusted proportionately.
Also see this note .
You will get points as allotted for each puzzle correctly submitted.
Instant Grading is enabled, so upon submitting you will know if the answer is correct or not. Penalty exists for wrong submissions.
There will be a time bonus of 1 point per full minute saved by players submitting all puzzles correctly within 90 minutes.
For determining rankings for offline finals consideration, each player's best 4 scores out of 6 online rounds will be summed up to calculate the total score (so, the worst two scores are discarded). For authors, the round authored is considered as a round with a 0 score.

Like every other contests at LMI, international players are encouraged to participate in these contests
These contests will be included in LMI Puzzle ratings.
International players are not eligible to win either the IPC or the Puzzle Ramayan title at the offline finals but can attend and participate managing their own expenses. We request any interested International players to let the organizers know early, between Round 4 and Round 5, so we can consider it in our plans.

If you have any questions or doubts or suggestions, please ask in the forum.

Last edited by Administrator @ 6/26/2020 7:36:25 AM.