Participation Conditions
Registration
The participants have to register timely before the contest and to add Name, Address, Citizenship and e-mail-address. It's recomended to do this before sunday, 3rd of May.
The purpose of the contest is to identify the German Puzzle Champion and the German Team for the World Puzzle Championship. For this, the participants need to have the german citizenship. Participants without the german citizenship may also participate in the preliminaries, but will not be allowed to the finals.
A membership in the association "Logic Masters Deutschland e.V." is not necessary. (But of course welcome).
For the prelimiaries your browser needs to accept cookies. Make sure that you've configuered your browser to accept them. Additionally, there is a counter on the website, that shows the time till the end. In case, javascript is activated, this counter counts automatically down. Javascript is not necessary for the contest.
The Preliminaries
About a week before the preliminaries, there will be a link on the Qualification page to a pdf file, that contains detailed descriptions of the puzzles. In case of lack of clarity you can ask questions in the forum until friday 8th of Mai.
At saturday, 9th of May in the morning, there will be a password encrypted qualification file available at the same page. Both files are in format pdf 1.4.
At saturday, 9th of May you can query the password. Immediately after that your time starts. You've now got 2 and a half hours to enter the solutions of the puzzles. Please note, that solutions entered after 24:00 will not count, regardless, when you queried the password.
The candidates have to solve alle puzzles self-contained. Especially the help of other persons as well as the usage of computers, calculators, sudoku solvers, books and so on are not allowed. The only tools allowed are listed on the Tipps & Tricks page.
For every correctly solved puzzle there will be avarded points according to the qualification file. Wrong solutions will yield a penalty of 5 points. A puzzle where you did not enter a solution will be worth 0 points. You can also cancel a solution by leaving the form empty.
The points in the qualification file give roughly the time we expect you to need to solve the puzzle.
You have to enter all solutions in the zwo and a half hours of working time. Solutions entered late will be punished with 1 point for every started 8 seconds. You can send solutions several times. Well count the one you sended last.
- In case of equal points the time between the query of the password and the last essential transfer of a solution will be taken as a critereia. A transfer will be considered as essential if at least one result of one puzzle has changed.
The organizers do not expect any technical problems. In case there are some, they will be announced at the technical problems page. There you'll also find an emergency phone number.
The rules of the contest have to be kept by all participants. From the winners of the preliminaries, we might ask to sign a loyalty oat. Participants who violate this rules might be removed from the contest at free will of the referees.
The judge's decision is final.
The final round
For the final round the 20 best participants of the preliminaries qualify, as well as the members of the national team of the WPC 2008. The association can add further participants at free will.
In case a participant who qualified in the prelimiaries has to resign, further participants will qualified. For the members of the national team there will be no such stuff.
The final round will take place at 19th and 20th of Juni in Gotha.
The participants of the final round will recieve an invitation with further details.
The best participant of the finals is german champion 2009.
The three best participants of the final round together with Ulrich Voigt will form the German National Team at the World Puzzle Championship 2009 in Turkey.
In case of any problems, the german version of this page will count!
