#wpc2018

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WPC Results

I finished in 49th overall officially and 66th unofficially out of 250 competitors. I was top Canadian and I’m pretty pleased with the result despite falling from last year’s finish.

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Team Round 3

The last team Round was also this morning. And it was a mess. There’s a real chance we got zero but hopefully we got something.

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Round 13

The last individual round was a 90 minute Saturday morning round with Twisted variations of puzzles. I did a lot of nothing for most of it as I either got it quickly or didn’t get it at all. If all correct, I should get 310 out of 810 points.

For rankings, I came into the day in 63rd unofficially and 47th officially. I had a successful appeal from round 5 which gave me back 35 points.

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Team Round 2

We seemed to do well. It’s difficult to tell how well though because of all the moving parts but I’m confident we didn’t get zero.

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Team Round 1

I don’t think we got zero! It was an 18x18 grid that was a mix of Japanese Sums, a loop with snake like properties and all the pentominos in use. It was divided into 36 3x3 blocks for marking and we hope to have the top and bottom row of blocks completed before time expired.

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Round 12

The last individual round of the day featured only new puzzle types. I think I have an advantage in rounds like this given how unprepared I am for solving most puzzle types. I avoided the hardest ones and focused on types I could do the quickest. If all is correct, I should get 325 out of 690 points.

And finally, we get to do some team rounds tonight. There is a decent chance we will score zero in all of them, but we can hope for the best anyways and try to stay positive and have fun.

Edit: I got back my round 10 and I made an error on a big puzzle costing me 75 points. The marker was kind enough to let me know that 2 + 2 doesn’t equal 5 (which was what my solution produced)

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Round 11

The theme of this round was regional puzzles. This wasn’t a strength of mine and even though I figured some puzzles out, I wasn’t very quick with solving them and spent a lot of time stuck on the hardest ones. If I got everything correct, I got 230 out of 590 points.

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Round 10

Before the round started, I got back Rounds 7 and 8 which came back with what I expected. This round was Double Trouble and somehow I managed to solve the 2 hardest puzzles. I think they’re all correct which should give me 245 out of 450 points.