Nice sudokus Ashish!
Although, I think that by preserving the theme, some puzzles turn out to be a tad too difficult.
The hybrids were very creative and made good use of the two rules.
In general, a nice test :)

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
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

I like hybrid variations although I am slow to solve it.
About Disjoint variation rules:
No digit can appear in the same position in different x boxes.
I always have known this variation as Sudoku DG (Disjoint Groups), and rule is described as: cells at same relative position in regions form another additional region. Essentially, is the same concept but perhaps I think is more understandable.
In this case, 6x6 sudoku have 6 regular regions, plus 6 disjoint and a diagonal, total 13 regions. And 9x9 have 9 regular regions, 9 disjoint and 1 diagonal , total 19 regions. So many restrictions !
I think that Ashish did a good work with this set of sudokus.
Thanks Ashish.

Congratulations to Tiit Vunk, Tantan Dai and Kota Morinishifor taking the top 3 places.

Among Indian participants, Congratulations to Rishi Puri, Rohan Rao and Kishore Kumar for taking the top 3 places.

Ondrej Motlicek (Czech Republic)was the first to start the test while Fernando Almazán (Spain) was the last person to start the test. The median score of the test was 41.

15 participants completed the set within the allotted time. Special mention for Sinchai Rungsangrattanakul (Thailand) and Wang Weifan (China) who got to 100 with just 3 and 9 seconds remaining respectively.

Thanks Ashish Kumar for the puzzles!

Participants may share feedback on the results page and rate the puzzles on the contest page.

What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Too many medium difficult puzzles
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	One Diagonal-Disjoint Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

The best and fitting final round of SM this year. The theme was beautifully executed and as has been mentioned by others, might have impacted the difficulty levels at times. Beautifully done Ashish.

Congratulations to Tiit Vunk, Tantan Dai and Kota Morinishi for taking the top 3 places.

Among Indian participants, Congratulations to Rishi Puri, Rohan Rao and Kishore Kumar for taking the top 3 places.

Thanks a lot to Rakesh for helping me out to make this set a successful one.
This was a hard set of SM but many of them noticed that it was due to the theme that i had kept all over the set. All the 9x9 variants had same placement of givens. some of the sudokus were more tougher than the one in the set and I had to tweak it many a times to make it unique and approachable. Irregulars weren't being unique due to the theme and tweaking that also did much of the effort.

Thanks to all who gave this contest and enjoyed the puzzles.

What was your opinion of the distribution of easy/hard puzzles?	Too many hard puzzles
What did you think about the puzzle quality of the test?	Very nice
Which set of puzzles did you like the most?	Classic Sudoku
Of the puzzles you solved/attempted, how well did the point values reflect the difficulty?	Most puzzles were worth the right amount

Hi,

Just wondering if you have the password to the SM irregular/hybrids, as it seems there is something wrong with the link to it.

Cheers, Nick

I have the same problem. I can't find the password. If anyone has it, send me a message please.

the password is TheLastRoundIRRHYB

the password is TheLastRoundIRRHYB

There is some problem with the Link. Admin, please fix the link.

This should be fixed now.