Thanks goes to Mike Dini and The Dini Group for providing the prizes, food and drink, and support for the contest. Michael Vrable deserves a lot of praise for setting up and running the contest. In addition to Michael V., Michael Van Biesbrouck, Peng Du, William Matthews, Roshni Malani, Md. Kamruzzaman and Jeremy Lau helped judge the contest. Prof. Brad Calder, who ran the contest in previous years, also helped enormously. Thanks also to Prof. Geoff Voelker, who helped organize the event and provided many of the photographs.
The following are the top finishers:
Rank Name Solved Penalty ---- -------------------- ------ ------ 1 Ross Tate 6 842 2 Kei Shun Ma 4 796 3 Eli Friedman 4 848 4 Nakul Verma 3 402 5 Panagiotis Voulgaris 3 412 6 Andres Valencia 3 457 7 Krista Davis 3 496 8 Kristen Campbell 3 617 9 Allen Lee 3 652 10 Patrick Johnson 3 693 11 Tom Maddock 3 703 12 Timothy Bollman 3 926 13 Thomas Petrillo 2 190 14 Pat Rondon 2 203 15 Alexandri Zavodny 2 273 16 Erik Buchanan 2 290 17 James Lintern 2 319 18 Taurin Tan-atichat 2 348 19 Aaron Barany 2 387 20 Andrew Samant 2 450 21 Rene Claus 2 526