Hi. I have a query on the qualification criteria for SM/PR playoffs. There are differences in the eligibility criteria specified in the SM home page and SM Finals page. Can you clarify which will be the final criteria. This is just for clarity between the two versions of the rule. :-)

SM Home page:

All players who have achieved any one of the following are NOT eligible to participate in the playoff to determine the Sudoku Mahabharat winner.
Represented India in A-Team at the World Sudoku Championship at least once in the last 10 years..
Represented India in B-Team / UN-Team at the World Sudoku Championship at least twice in the last 10 years..
Won the Sudoku Mahabharat title twice.

SM/PR Finals Page:

After this, there will be a playoff to decide the SM & PR winners, which will be contested among the top 5 inexperienced participants (inexperienced is defined as someone who hasn’t been to the WSC/WPC respectively).

Edited by rvarun 2018-06-18 1:58 PM

Final Leaderboard for SM 2018 is now available at http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2018sm.asp

Direct Link:
Official Leaderboard: http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2018-Ranks.asp
Unofficial Leaderboard: http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2018-Allranks.asp

Congratulations to Rohan Rao, Rishi Puri and Kishore Kumar for finishing in the Top 3.

Congratulations to Kota Morinishi, Jan Zverina and Seungjae Kwak for finishing in the International Top 3.

What will be the timings of SM playoffs??

The exact timings will be known once the Instruction booklet is released. Considering the last two years, the SM playoffs will start at around 3-4 pm after the main rounds and it may last for 45 minutes to one hour.

How will the participants for main round be decided???

All the details are at this link:
http://logicmastersindia.com/SM/2018sm.asp

Check Offline Finals:Registration Process section in the above link.

is the registration for SM playoff and WSC qualiification round separate or same registration will do for both

Hi. There will be a single registration for the event. The main event will be the ISC which is the qualification for WSC. SM playoffs will take place after the main rounds among the top five inexperienced finalists (Inexperienced refers to the criteria mentioned in the SM homepage).

SM Home page was correct, its been changed now.

Hi guys. One small suggestion regarding scheduling. The scheduling need to be taken care for SM finals (Aug 18) day such that we have some time for any informal discussions, suggestions at the end of the day considering we will have maximum participants for SM. We were not able to accommodate the same last year due to venue timing restrictions.

SM Finals: Confirmed participants so far:

1 Aashay Patil
2 Amit Sowani
3 Amod
4 Anil Khosla
5 Anithra P Janakiraman
6 Ashish Kumar
7 Damini Goyal
8 Gaurav Kumar Jain
9 Harmeet Singh
10 Jaipal Reddy Mogiligundla
11 Jayant Ameta
12 K. Ravichandran
13 Kishore Kumar
14 Mamta Singh
15 Pooja Bansal
16 Pranav Kamesh S
17 Prasanna Seshadri
18 Rishi Puri
19 Rohan Rao
20 Ruqaiyyah. M
21 Rushabh Vora
22 Sai Karthik Burra
23 Shaheer Rahman
24 Swati manglik
25 T. N. Venkatesh
26 Tejal Phatak
27 Varun R
28 Vishal
29 Lenson Andrade
30 Utkarsh Somaiya
31 Avinash K
32 R Kumaresan
33* Parameshwaran
34 Ashwin Paradkar
35* Vivek Jain
36 Rajesh Kumar
37 Kartik Reddy
38 Mamta Dhanuka
39 Karn Deep Ranjan
40 Parag Jain
41 Deepika Moningi

Also, some of you asked about practice material. The free practice material is all the online rounds which are archived on the LMI website. If you want 2017 or 2016 finals content it will cost up to Rs. 400 to purchase that since it is offline content. If anyone is interested, please drop an email with the year (2016 or 2017) you want to purchase.

If there is any scope for a wild card entry / last moment on spot registration , please do inform . I would be very keen on attending. ( did not participate in the SM 2018 rounds but did attend the SM finals in 2016 and 2017 )

Wild card entry: Anyone who has not participated in 4 SM rounds can participate in the finals but won't get rank.

Tentative date for the release of Instruction Booklet is 6th August 2018.

Instruction Booklet version 1 has been sent to the confirmed participants today.

In R2, substitution sudoku : Is the list of words used In contest same as that in example ?

Sorry, this question is specifically directed at the actual puzzle which appears in the Finals and is not intended for better understanding of the rules, so we will not be able to answer it.

For the Trampoline sudoku,the rules mention jumping vertically from the shaded cell.Does this mean 'Vertically up' alone,or both 'vertically up and down'?

Vertically up alone, as trampoline will always try to push you up. Will add this clarification in the final version of IB.

Nice set of puzzles. Loved the concept of the entire linked round and the trampoline sudoku especially :)

When I printed out the puzzles, the shaded squares came out pretty dark. Not sure if it was my printer or what, but I hope the actual booklet will have lighter shading :)

Can you please specify which all puzzles?

I am aware of Slot Machine. That will be lighter in the actual booklet and also lighter in the final version of the IB. But let us know if any other puzzles also it's printing dark.
Thanks.

In R3,Samurai 2 , is the vice versa rule applicable across neighbouring grids?For instance,R10C13, is it correct to deduce that 8 won't be in that cell because of the 9 above ?(similar question for other grids namely XV &Consecutive)

Even Sudoku and Clone Sudoku also came out dark for me.

ok, we will check and ensure that it won't be dark for the actual booklets.

Vice versa rule won't be applicable to neighboring grids (this will be added to the final version of IB). You can also get this by looking at R15C12 and R15C13.

Only the Quadruple clue extends to the neighbor grid, as shown in the example.