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.
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19 Feb 08 at 11:42 am
Thanx for the info….there’s no news anywhere else..
Pretty excited about it…
Rohit
22 Feb 08 at 8:35 am
yeah u r right….don’t know why they have not yet started the registration process?
are they again gng to change the dates
Payal Bansal
3 Mar 08 at 6:09 am
it is 1300 HRS of 3rd march , but the site is nither registering nor giving any information/reply.
please help.
ashutosh khandelwal
3 Mar 08 at 7:44 am
it is 1315 HRS of 3rd March and the site sudokumasters.in is nither registering nor giving any information/response.
please help . . . . .
ashutosh khandelwal
3 Mar 08 at 7:49 am
3rd march passed and its 4th march….no registrations yet
Payal Bansal
4 Mar 08 at 4:44 am
recently i have visited your website a number of times, where it has been given registration has already started ,but till now i did not find the link.so can u plz direct how to register for the upcoming championship….
S P ASHOK
4 Mar 08 at 7:29 am
This post dates back to 19/02/2008 when the chanpoinship was declared for the first time at the site sudokumasters.in which I had been watching for a long time… Registrations have not begun yet… expected in a day or two… I will personally intimate you when it happens… Thanks for visiting the site often..
Jalaj
4 Mar 08 at 8:40 am
please update me with the latest information regarding sudoku
kushalkumar
5 Mar 08 at 11:07 am
Sir,can you please tell me the rules and regulations of how to play sudoku masters 2008 online.By, saying that i mean that an optional printer will be needed for taking out the print of downloaded puzzles andthen solve it or rather we have to play it on the desktop.
saurav jaiswal
12 Mar 08 at 12:30 am
The puzzles will be available for download, in form of Password-protected PDF file, before the beginning of the first (qualification) round. Keep Acrobat Reader installed. The password will be revealed exactly at 2.00 pm when the competition begins. (This is to avaoid server crash due to large number of downloads at the same time on 16th). You will require printer because it would not be easy for you to solve the puzzles online, so you can get the printout, go offline, solve them and after logging in feed the answers for the selected cells they ask for.
It is advised that you register beforehand and participate in the practice tests on 15th.
Jalaj
12 Mar 08 at 4:19 am
Thanks for the update….I am lookig forward to it….would have benefited if TOI was a part of it….
Tanvi
14 Mar 08 at 9:54 am
I wonder where you can get the password to open the pdf file
Narasimha
14 Mar 08 at 11:16 am
from when can i get the password to open the file
Tanvi
14 Mar 08 at 11:38 am
i think this is not fair….as many people can together sit and solve different sudokus and then each one submits so basically all of them are profited as effectively each has submitted many sudokus in less time…..mind u all of them gets the same sudokus 2mrw……..
punit
15 Mar 08 at 3:19 pm
Am I the only person who cannot log in with Internet explorer under Window XP or Linux
RedHat Mozilla?
Narasimha
16 Mar 08 at 8:51 am
The PDF Test file did not open till 3.10 pm wasting my time and energy and this is not fair.
Meenakshi Sankar
16 Mar 08 at 9:38 am
login couldn’t be possible at any time and problem is that there is nothing mentioned about whom to contact.
s.ghosh
16 Mar 08 at 11:14 am
How to know about the results (who has qualified for national round in banglore on 23.03.0
of online Sudokumasters held on 16.03.08.
Sudhanshu
17 Mar 08 at 9:51 am
They might be screening the results for selecting the eligible candidates. There were some technical errors reported in submission of puzzles so there might be human screening too (otherwise the result could have come out immediately after competition was over)… Hope they come out with results in a day or two…
Jalaj
17 Mar 08 at 1:06 pm
may i know the results at bangalore finals wih individual scores?
vijay korde
26 Mar 08 at 8:28 am
results of finals at bangalore held on March 23, 2008 with details of individual scores.
vijay korde
26 Mar 08 at 8:32 am
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26 Mar 08 at 11:30 am
i have come to know very late since today is 2nd april . can i now try to participate ???
hiren
2 Apr 08 at 5:19 am
i started practising sudoku since sep 2007. would like to participate in other competition india before 2009 competition. any idea?
mahadevan s
13 Apr 08 at 6:09 am
hi
can u pliz tell me when will the world sudoku championsip 2009 be held?
and when are the selection rounds in india going to be held?
thanx
sar
2 Jan 09 at 6:51 pm
4th World Sudokuch Championship will be held in Slovakia - Žilina 24-27 April 2009. Contact to web side wsc 2009: http://www.sudoku.szhk.sk
sudoku 2009
4 Jan 09 at 1:42 pm