Defending champion Rohan Rao won the Indian Sudoku Championship 2011 with a clinical performance making it two in two years.

Rohan scored 1895 with a comfortable lead over second place Ritesh Gupta scoring 1155 and third place Sumit Bothra with 1140 points.

Tejal Phatak stood fourth completing the Indian team with 1105. Last year’s finalist Gaurav Korde was a shade lower than his best and stood fifth.

Congrats Rohan.... great job and great solving for a comfortable win.... surprised about Gaurav, but then the top 4 are reall good and formidable quartet... great to see Ritesh and Sumit back in groove and above all Tejal's climb has been steady but really wonderful... It is great to see her there among the toppers.

Rishi

Detailed Results - http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=isc2011

From the scores... the most pleasant surprise is Tejal... round 2 went bad for her, otherwise she would have been second... way to go Tejal.. great job :)

Rishi

Congratulations to the top four !!!

Extraordinary effort deb n team... Nice to be part of LMI again...

Congratulations to the top four, and in particular Rohan ; very comfortable victory - first place on all four rounds is pretty impressive ! Bad luck for Gaurav, but of course this is the logical consequence of organizing qualifications with such efficiency : many strong players and only four places leads inevitably to deception for some of these players. Anyway, I hope everybody had fun and I wish you the best in advance for WSC 2011.

And once more, big congrats to Deb and the rest of LMI team for the impressive job they do.

Congrats to Rohan, Ritesh, Sumit and Tejal :)

Thanks Rishi :)

If only round 2 was even slightly better, I would've been 2nd. But, its ok, shall try next year and give Rohan and you a tough fight! :)

Congratulations to "fantastic four" and double congratulations for Rohan for his twin titles! Is it because his name is R.R.?

Like Rajesh said some time ago :

You know Rohan has two R's in his name to score double any year.

Indeed, we know since a long time that, at least regarding indian players, possessing an R in your name is a huge advantage. And possessing two means that the puzzles appear to you like if they were already half-solved. So, of course, Rohan wins again. Nothing to do with skills !

See this topic for more details :

http://logicmastersindia.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=7&pos...

Im sure you will give everyone a run for their money Tejal.. more so Rohan as it is his title on the line ;) as for me.. I missed it this year... and with so far ahead in age, at times Family does take priority over sudoku for me :(

Rishi

The Indian R-brigade is in good shape. Rajesh, Rakesh, Rishi, Ritesh, Rohan form a great team and to stop the R-trend, its going to be one hell of a task!
Unfortunately, its the J's, U's and T's that work in the WSC and WPC ;)

Edited by Rohan Rao 2011-06-14 12:11 AM

Sudoku Booklets with solutions uploaded - http://logicmastersindia.com/lmitests/?test=isc2011