Sudoku Mahabharat 2020 at Logic Masters India

About Sudoku Mahabharat 2020

This is a national contest aimed at encouraging the best Sudoku 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 Sudoku variants. The rounds are largely the same as the 2019 edition, in different order.
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 WSC 2020, which will be decided by this tournament.
*Depending on whether the player awarded a wildcard from WSC 2019 participates.
There will be a separate playoff at the end of the offline finals to determine the Mahabharat winner. There will be an eligibility criteria for this playoff, as explained below, to preserve the essence of Sudoku Mahabharat.

Represented India in A-Team at the World Sudoku Championship at least once in the last 10 years..
Represented India in B-Team / UN-Team at the World Sudoku Championship at least twice in the last 10 years..
Won the Sudoku Mahabharat 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 100 base points.

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 Sudoku Mahabharat online rounds considering best four scores.
The participant must be in the top 3 Indians considering the best four scores after six Sudoku 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.

Round	Author	Dates	India 1	India 2	India 3
Standard	Prasanna Seshadri	10-15 Jan 2020	Rohan Rao	Kishore Kumar	Ashish Kumar
Substitution & Neighbours	Hemant Malani and Pranav Kamesh	07-12 Feb 2020	Rohan Rao	Kishore Kumar	Rishi Puri
Irregular & Outside	Gaurav Jain	06-11 Mar 2020	Prasanna Seshadri	Pranav Kamesh	Rohan Rao
Math	Akash Doulani and Kishore Kumar	03-08 Apr 2020	Prasanna Seshadri	Rohan Rao	Rishi Puri
Converse & Odd Even	Harmeet Singh and Ramesh Swarnkar	01-06 May 2020	Prasanna Seshadri	Rohan Rao	Rishi Puri
Hybrids & Twisted Classics	R Kumaresan	05-10 Jun 2020	Prasanna Seshadri	Rohan Rao	Kishore Kumar

All rounds will be open throughout the weekends and on Mondays. They will also be open on Friday nights.
All times in Indian Standard Time (GMT+5:30)

In each round, the fourth best Indian score among eligible players will be scaled to 100. Others' scores will be adjusted proportionately.
For International Rankings, the tenth best score in each round will be scaled to 100. Others' scores will be adjusted proportionately.
You will get points as allotted for each sudoku 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 sudokus 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 Sudoku ratings.
International players are not eligible to win either the ISC or the Sudoku Mahabharat 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, before 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 @ 6/11/2020 8:21:53 AM.