Date
The date remains as announced 01-07 October 2012.
Transport
There are 3 airports you can choose for your flights. The closest is in the Krk Island, Rijeka is about 30 minutes and the biggest one is in Zagreb (1,5hour by car)
Shuttle busses will be available for us during the whole event.
Schedule
The schedule still might change
Monday – arrival day, opening ceremony in the hotel
Tuesday – WSC
Wednesday – Sudoku final and trip in the afternoon with a dinner and WSC final ceremony outside the hotel
Thursday, Friday – WPC
Saturday – Puzzles final, closing ceremony
Sunday - Departures
Teams
Each country can choose two teams “A” and “B”, each team consisting of 4 members.
Participation fee
The participation fee for both championships should be 450 EUR for competitors as well for the guests. For the participants of WSC only the fee will be 250 Euros (arrival October 1st, departure October 4th). For the participants of WPC only the fee will be 400 Euros (arrival October 2nd departure October 7th).
Other
The official web and FB page should be launched in the next few days.
Booklet should be available 2 weeks prior to the event the latest.
Is Dr.sudoku not playing?????i see him in the guest list of the WPF....is there some error?!.......really hard to believe it ...i checked the list thrice to make sure i have not seen wrongly...
and i m following the action in croatia through facebook though not much has been posted until now...expect more news tommorow ......
Is it will be good if LMI can hold next sudoku and puzzle monthly test which will be look alike WSC/WPC? Create the same variants and formats using in Croatia WSC/WPC and this can give everybody who cannot go to Croatia to still have a taste at there.. and make group part competition (participant will may be given a group randomly or depend on rank) and using the playoff format to choose the top 8 (lot of sudokus and puzzles will be needed for sure).. Perhaps this can help others Indian to know WSC/WPC better..
Or maybe someday LMI can be the one to make WSC/WPC online version..
Rohan vs Kota just got over. Kota chose Irregular and wheels, Rohan chose medium classic. They never got to wheels as Kota won both the first 2. Both of them started with Rohan inching ahead, and at around 50-60 % of the grid, Kota suddenly got the logic and raced ahead while Rohan was staring. So, 8th it is, this year.
Let just pray that Kota will win this year so your Indian participant, Rohan will be defeated in honor because he has to be against the champion at first playoff match?..
I see no mention of my heroic one-man performance in the Team rounds for India B in Sudoku :P Anyways, just came online from the reception here for a while, so just thought I'd mention that as it was the one good thing I did all week
http://mellowmelon.wordpress.com/
an interesting and limpid narration of what happened in the puzzle playoffs from melons blog....would be nice if someone gave an account of what happened in the sudoku playoffs
http://mellowmelon.wordpress.com/
an interesting and limpid narration of what happened in the puzzle playoffs from melons blog....would be nice if someone gave an account of what happened in the sudoku playoffs
Well I saw Thomas'(motris) blog post during the competition and I think it covered the Sudoku play-offs well, I don't think anything dramatic happened after the Jakub incident which was highly unfair on him. Jan and Kota spent a long time on an Irregular Diagonal, and just as Thomas remarked about a certain piece of logic they were missing, some 10-15 minutes in, Jan found it. Apart from that, not much to report except the results which I guess are visible on the site.
Prasanna is right; the most interesting remaining aspect of the sudoku playoffs besides the mistakes that frustrated me in my post, was a particularly hard puzzle that took Jan and Kota over 15 minutes to solve (18 total? I'm not sure). A lot of this was not the puzzle -- it was not WSC1 toroidal difficulty level certainly -- and I think was 50% simply the large format affecting them in different ways. Jan made a mistake, had to restart, and used first red circles to mark correct digits in blue and then only wrote red notes and red numbers. You can see his struggle a bit in this photo below -- view the zoom in for the red versus blue note situation. Kota was always on a correct path but just very, very slow. Since I consider these two the best in the world at jigsaw variants, it was a shock to see that result. After Jan finally finished (when we were worried the round might run forever, with the rules not having any way for a puzzle to end) that made the finals 2-1 for Jan. After another Jigsaw interlinked grid Jan secured the win.
The nature of playoffs(puzzle selection,dynamic pool,etc) was much criticized.The considerable variance between standings before playoffs and after playoffs also points to the fact that the format played disturbed the setup on the top.This format had a small postitive that let players like Ulrich cleverly gain some advantage(a lot has been said about that) but perhaps a major
downside which lets you run away with your strong puzzles.Playoffs in future should be more 'learned' in the sense that every player has his weak puzzles(even the champion had a couple ) and if a playoff forces each finalist to do a number of silghtly easier different types(still a single digit figure) ,and those types manage to cover each player's weak ones too(this will not always happen).Not all of that could be done, but something on these lines is really worth.
WPC/WSC Croatia - details
