About - Indian Puzzle Championship - 2016

Logic Masters India (LMI) is conducting the Indian Puzzle Championship (IPC) 2016 (tentatively) in July-2016. Unlike the last few years, the format is different, as the qualification for the IPC will begin in late August 2015.

There will be a series of eight online rounds (called Puzzle Ramayan, similar to last year's Sudoku Mahabharat for Sudokus), which act as a qualifier for the offline national finals. The Top-50 players from the online rounds will qualify for the finals. Provisions will be made for a deserving Indian performer not living in India to get on the National team. There will also be a system to reward newcomers & inexperienced solvers to preserve the essence of Sudoku Mahabharat and carry it forward to Puzzle Ramayan. This may include having separate criteria for the Ramayan winner and the IPC winner.

More details will be announced soon.

Details Including Schedule

Details are published here -
http://logicmastersindia.com/PR/2015-16pr.asp

As with Sudoku Mahabharat, this is mainly to put out the general format, schedule and idea of the event, we may iron out a few details like prizes, etc. a bit more soon.
We realize that September is pretty crowded, this is mainly because we need to keep a space for the World Championships in October.

Update - Wild Card

Following his impressive 19th place finish in the 24th World Puzzle Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria, Prasanna Seshadri gets a wildcard into the Indian A team for the 25th WPC in Slovakia, and won't be eligible for the Puzzle Ramayan leader-board and finals.

Update - Scoring system

After the first 3 rounds, we have noticed that it is very difficult to maintain a consistent difficulty level across rounds. This means, under the current scoring system, some rounds will become discards by default, which negates the discard advantages. So, we have decided to alter the scoring system to scale the scores in comparison to the best score for each round, starting at 100 and going lower. For the Puzzle Ramayan rankings, it will be the best Indian score among eligible players. For the International rankings it will be the best score in the round.