Firstly Recap about the competition :
About IPC 2013
The Indian Puzzle Championship 2013 will be held online on 7th July, 2013. Participation is free of cost and everyone is invited to participate in the event irrespective of age. There are no prerequisites/requirements for participation.
Top 4 competitors will represent India at the World Puzzle Championship 2013 which will be held in China in October, 2013.
Indian Puzzle Championship - 2013
POINTS ALLOCATED TO PUZZLES : CLICK HERE
CHAMPIONSHIP PAGE : CLICK HERE
DISCUSSION THREAD : CLICK HERE
PRACTICE PUZZLES AND TIPS : CLICK
HERE
COMPETITION PUZZLE BOOKLET : CLICK
HERE
PASSWORD : - bN2TyC7Eeq
RESULTS
The Indian Puzzle Championship 2013 has a new winner, Prasanna Seshadri, with an impressive total of 977.5 points. This gave Prasanna a 250 point lead over second placed Amit Sowani who secured 720 points. Rajesh Kumar, the veteran solver, returned to the team after a one year absence with an impressive 610. Rohan Rao, the three-year champion, gave a lackluster performance by his high standards, but did enough to be the 4th entrant into Team India with 584 points.
Unfortunately again i missed it by one position. The selection was of top 4 and i came 5th for 2nd consecutive time.
Top 5:
- Prasanna Seshadri (976 points)
- Amit Sowani (720 points)
- Rajesh Kumar (610 points)
- Rohan Rao (584 points)
- Swaroop Guggilam (534 points)
Complete Results : Click here
My Experience :
Thanks to all authors for such wonderful puzzles, they were really more tricky rather than hard.
It took me two days to consume my result. But anyways i was happy thinking there would be some year made for me :). Well regarding puzzle types,
A1 - I felt this was good for beginners. Except that odd man out created confusion to some of them.
A2- Slitherlink was fine with logic that we either need to eliminate options or solve and match it. But for sudoku i thought borders of regions must have been present because its just mechanical to redraw it on each grid and nothing logical think about it. Though few of them can imagine the border and eliminate the options. So at the same time giving borders would reduce mechanical work and if required points could have been reduced and allotted to some other type.
B1, B2 - They were little tricky and easy but for beginners seeing the huge size grids must have surely created problem.
C1, C2 - i personally don't like battleships. c1 was nice and c2 i haven't solved yet.
D1 and D2 - Both star battles were nice and i guess practice puzzles had similar types so most of people must have attempted this.
E1 Sudoku - i felt it was little difficult for beginners to attempt with fewer clues.
E2 Skyscraper Sudoku - The size was smaller one which made it easy to solve, but at the same time worth 30 points.
F1 and F2 - Black White Loop and Black White Grey Loop were one of my favorite, so i solved it first and quickly to boost my confidence.
G1 and G2 - I felt it could have been little easier one. As we already had G2 to think of. But i skipped G types during test and was later regretting why i didn't attempted
H1, H2 - I am good at searching but did a error while solving which costed me to loose points :(.
I1, I2 - It was strange i was not able to solve regular Tapa but solved the Variant easily.
J1, J2 - They were really awesome to solve and quite a new type to me but interesting.
K1, K2 - They were really my favorites. But was not able to solve during tests. They were real real tricky in terms of logic.
L1, L2 - I was stuck in Snake Eggs, later realized i unnecessarily wasted some time there.
M1 - Well i want highlight upon this one. I was surprised looking at this kind of Slitherlink. I feel the lines could have been much darker. It was so light in my print outs that once used eraser the lines get erased and then i had to take print outs again and again. So if those lines would have been darker then it would have been helpful. But it was tricky and good one to solve.
M2 - It was real worth for its points in terms of quality and difficulty.
My favourites were - crosslink, BWG loop, tapa difference. Kakuro + pento kakuro were also awesome (solved it later)
Overall i really enjoyed the puzzles and quality were good. I felt it could have been balanced such that more easy puzzles and few with much difficulty so that for beginner it could have been more enjoyable and also for top solvers to compete in their zone.
VOTE OF THANKS
At the end i would appreciate all the authors , test solvers and LMI for organizing it so efficiently. I also congratulate to all the winners and hope they would perform best at World Puzzle Championship and improve ranking of India from last time. I also thank to all other participants for giving their best and hope they will keep participating in future.
