A huge thanks to all organizers and authors involved in putting together this fantastic ISC. I really appreciate the efforts being made to conduct online ISC finals over the past 2 years so that the essence of an offline event is not completely forgotten. Congrats to Rohan for a dazzling performance and to Prasanna for putting up a spirited show. Well done Swaroop for finishing a close 4th.

Special congrats to Nityant and James Peter ! You guys really made the scoreboard merry and more lively and gave a complete scare :). All the very best to keep improving your skills !

I only wish my performance lived up a bit more. Although, I would admit that it was a complete relief to finish in top-3, I honestly feel that with those total points, a third was not deserved given that there is a huge difference in points (around 1200) between 1/2 and 3. Mental note to myself to read rules more carefully and thoroughly in future and not to goof up Rounds.

Favourites of each round :

R1 - Pencilmarks and Killer
R2 - Equations and X-Sums
R3 - Clone and Hundred

R3 was a fun and very nice set to solve. Good luck to all for IPC :)

Thanks to the organizers, authors, and testers for the great puzzles for ISC. All the Sudoku puzzles were of very high quality. My favorite is R3 with a good concept. Rohan and Prasanna's performance is awesome. Looking forward to IPC next week :).

Video on Hundred Sudoku from R3

https://youtu.be/xhmyfelFt-I