Thanks a lot! I truly agree with you and I'm sure there will be better and more exciting contests by Indians (other than you, Amit, Deb, Rakesh, the regulars...) in future :-)

At LMI online we try to design the test timings in such a way that an average solver is able to solve all (or most of the) puzzles in the test and thereby we expect some of the top solvers to get a time bonus.
Even at offline competitions it is difficult to estimate the correct time for a test given the rate at which sudoku solve timings have reduced over the past couple of years.

It was nice to see a discussion on the loss of bonus points due to small oversights.
In offline competitions we can do away with bonus points by introducing bonus puzzles like we have had in the Indian Sudoku Championships in the past and the WSC in Goa.
However since this is not possible for online competitions we have to devise a way in which participants do not loose a large number of bonus points due to silly submission mistakes.
Both Ziti and motris had similar ideas off giving weighted bonus points depending on the number of puzzles solved incorrectly and the number of puzzle points solved incorrectly.

The puzzle points are always related to the time taken to solve the puzzle, so we will compute the percentage of test completed as the percentage of puzzle points solved. The weights will be based on Ziti's approach and hence all participants solving more then 50 % of the test can expect some bonus points for time saved in the test.

Where can I get IB? The IB File is Broken......
(LMIMT_M201008P_IB ? The file is broken..)

Please check now.

Thanks.