#wsc2023

So we tied a personal best at the WSC and finished 4th overall!!! There was a bit of a gap between us and the US for third, but I’m still happy we came so close to finishing on the podium!

I finished in 16th place! If I didn’t make any silly mistakes (and everything else stayed the same), I would have finished in 14th. It’s another top 20 finish, and my teammate finished in 19th, joining me in the top 20!

This round was a disaster! No one finished on time which paused the clock. I didn’t get one of my assigned individual sudokus as the instructions weren’t very good. It seems like a lot of others failed to solve it though. We managed the team samurai using the logic from the earlier sudokus. It was a frustrating end to the team part of the competition.

This was a sticker sudoku set and our team passed around 6 sudokus and had 90 seconds to solve our portion with stickers. We solved 5 of them but not a difficult irregular sudoku that required everyone to do their part. We are probably out of the running for a podium finish.

And as an aside, we got interviewed by a journalist afterwards, although I’m not sure who she’s associated with.

The remaining team rounds are after lunch.

This was 9 sudokus for 550 points over 45 minutes. I got 6 of them if all correct but these sudokus were unusual shapes and patterns so it’s difficult to tell if I was correct on the ones I think I solved. If all correct, I got 390 out of 550 points.

This was 45 minutes to do 550 points worth of sudokus with outside clues. It was slow going as I tried to avoid making any careless mistakes. I did 5 of them leaving both shape and outside sudokus. If all correct, I only got 340 out of 550 points.