How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Fairly balanced
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	A bit hard
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Congrats rishi, rohan n gaurav.

Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Perfectly balanced
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Just right
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice

Congrats Rishi, Rohan and Gaurav along with Prasanna for making it to team India. You all together make a very strong team. Hoping to see podium finish for Indian team this year at WSC. All the best.

Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Perfectly balanced
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Just right
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Perfectly balanced
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	A bit easy
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Perfectly balanced
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Just right
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	Yes, some of them were easy. I would have liked more easy puzzles.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	Yes, some of them were familiar. I would have liked more familiar types.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few easy puzzles.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few familiar types.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood most of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few easy puzzles.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	Yes, some of them were familiar. I would have liked more familiar types.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Perfectly balanced
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Just right
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Fairly Nice
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	No, I was clueless even after reading the IB
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood only a few of them.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

Can you suggest ways for the IB to be clearer? We want to reach out better for newcomers and would love to see your thoughts on the matter. Also, please remember (for future contests) that the IB is typically released at least 3-4 days before an event, so if you are facing difficulty with understanding, you can ask about it in the forum here.

Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

That was completely disastrous. I got so tired ~1 hour in that I could not possibly stay awake and went to sleep......

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Fairly balanced
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Just right
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Fairly Nice
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Fairly balanced
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Just right
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	A bit skewed
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	A bit hard
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Average
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Too many pages / too large grids

How balanced do you think the puzzle types of this test were?	Perfectly balanced
What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Just right
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
What was your opinion of the booklet formatting and printing?	Just right

Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood only a few of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	No, there were really few familiar types.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	Most likely

Congrats Rishi, Rohan and Gaurav !!!

Amit, Ritesh and Kishore were not too far behind either.

Edited by rakesh_rai 2014-06-03 6:11 PM

Did the Instructions Booklet (IB) provide enough information about participating in ISC?	Yes, mostly.
Did you understand the Sudoku variations rules and examples from the IB?	I understood all of them.
Did you find enough easy Sudokus to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
Did you find enough easy / familiar variations to solve during the championship?	Yes, there were many of them.
After your experience in ISC, are you going to participate in future championshiops or contests at LMI?	May be

ISC 2014 is over, even for International Participants.

The result pages are all linked to here and here. Congrats once again to the Indian top 3 of Rishi, Rohan and Gaurav. Rishi has ended it on an impressive 2nd place Internationally.

The International top 3 were Kota, Rishi and Jaku111. Well played, all 3 of you.

ISC 2014 doubled as the Campionato italiano di sudoku. Congrats to the Italian winner, Giovanni Frugoli (Akuma21).

We hope all the new participants (and the regulars too of course!) enjoyed this contest. The solution booklet will be released tomorrow.

My general thoughts on picking the types for this contest was to categorize it in the following way -
Classics (1-4)
Smaller grids (8 6x6s)
A variation in presentation (Expanded)
Classic Lookalikes (Mirror, Irregular, Untouch)
Common variants (Diagonal, Odd)
Math variants (Killer, Arrow)
Relation variants (Thermo, Fortress)
Converse-Rule constraint variants (Consecutive, XV)
Uncommon variants (with "varying concepts" like distance (Search 9), heights (Inside Skyscraper) and positions (Descriptive Pairs))

Overall I feel ISC covered most of the broad categories appearing at a WSC and will surely prepare the winners well. At the same time I also feel it had enough classics to keep newcomers interested. I mainly followed Deb's format from last year which has proved to be well received for 2 consecutive years now. With minor changes, I think this is a good format to stick with. However, if the participants have any thoughts/feedback on this please feel free to let us know.