Archive for February 19th, 2008
Sudoku Masters 2008 - National Sudoku Championship Declared
Selection process for the Team representing India for the 3rd World Sudoku Championship has been declared. Unlike last years selection process that had regional rounds between screening and finals, this year there would be a online qualifying test on 16th March to be held on the new home page sudokumasters.in for National Sudoku Championship. Registration for the qualification test will commence on this site from 1st march onwards, not end date specified. The existence of the new site was already mentioned in the previous post 3rd World Sudoku Championship in this subject.
Finals will be held on 30th March at Bangalore. The team thus selected would be participating in the 3rd World Sudoku Championship (WSC3) at Holiday Inn resort Goa between 14th to 17th April 2008.
The World Sudoku Championship is organized by World Puzzle Federation and the selection process for India Team is undertaken by Quixy.
(I am glad that I am the first one to spread this word, there is no news anywhere to be seen, no press releases, maybe Times Of India is not participating this time, hence the silence)
Update 03.03.2008 7:30 pm IST
They missed the scheduled date for starting of Registration i.e. 1st March, and modified the page to show 3rd March and added a schedule for practice session on 15th March. Most of the day has passed and still the registration has not started.
Update 04.03.2008 9:30 am IST
Missed the date again! The site still shows 3rd March! which is already gone!!
Update 04.03.2008 5:30 pm IST
The Start date for registration has again changed to 8th March. So all of you eagerly looking for registration can sit back calmly for another 4 days (pray it not goes more than that). The probable reason for the registration not starting on schedule is failure to develop the portal in time. It includes the information pages, the registration application, the online qualification test application, and the other applications available at backend. Now the question is “if the portal is stilll not ready? will it get enough time for stress test?? The ultimate deadline is 14th-17th April when all winners of National Sudoku Championship would be participating in the World Sudoku CHampionship! and the more we are loosing time in National Sudoku Championship, less we will get time to prepare for World Sudoku Championship.
Looks like non-participation of Times Of India has really affected the championship and there is no promotion and marketing. I can’t believe that this blog (infact this page) comes as the first result when searched for Sudoku Masters 2008.
Update: 08.03.2008 Registration for The Sudoku masters 2008, National Sudoku Championship Open
Update: 13.03.2008
The site now has link for the PDF files. One that you can read now contains the rules and points associated with each sudoku… The second file is password encrypted and the password will be revealed to you just at the beginning of the contest on 16th when you log in using your token id… and you will get 2.5 hrs to solve all puzzles (25 of them!!!) each one having its own weightage, total of 2008 points in all. It’s on you to decide which puzzle to solve and which one to leave… Try to get the maximum points out of them…
Update: 15.03.2008 5:00 am
A link “DEMO” has appeared which demonstrate how the answers for the test would be required to be submitted. Take a look. The link for practice test still not available but may be made available soon.
