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Munich 2012 Minesweeper Tournament Results

Rank Rank* Player I E Sum TOTAL (5&5) Penalties
1 Kamil Muranski 10.783 41.775 272.293
2 Pavel Mishin 12.069 43.964 286.459
1 3 Thomas Kolar 13.219 42.687 294.060
2 4 Fritz Loehr 13.062 42.906 296.827
5 Wen-Kai Xu 11.032 48.094 319.548
6 "Capellini" 13.485 47.297 323.907
7 Xiao-Yang Yang 15.648 46.553 327.172
8 Zhang-Wen Mao 15.297 50.109 338.735
9 Damien Moore 14.379 51.961 346.964
3 10 Robert Royals 14.297 53.657 349.969
11 Aristeidis Kokkidis 15.063 52.344 353.580
12 Arsen Balishyan 14.246 54.944 356.251
13 Bertie Seyyfert 15.913 54.539 371.958
4 14 Dave Greer 17.125 55.937 376.607
15 Yuan Fang 16.438 50.812 376.921
16 Ke Zhou 13.781 56.625 380.797
5 17 Edu Cros 16.547 53.016 393.766
18 Mao-Qi Chen 17.436 50.328 395.880
19 Wei-Jia Guo 16.641 58.188 396.500
20 Yuuki Nakagiri 17.380 57.566 396.558
21 Guillaume Cabane 15.335 60.200 399.625
22 Jun Tao 16.078 59.235 405.406
23 Kai Sun 16.407 62.062 408.188
24 Quan Zhou 15.766 59.671 420.155
25 Hai-Bo Li 18.125 61.641 420.877
26 Pengyun Ni 17.687 62.827 427.435
27 "miusanhayasugi" 16.355 65.780 443.315
6 28 Daniel Hagenmeier 19.000 64.047 450.158
29 Cho-Yong Choi 17.688 72.688 481.375
30 "OCHO" 15.077 71.502 490.793
31 Bodor Bertalan 19.484 74.125 501.953
32 Maksim Bashov 21.422 64.640 515.688
7 33 Stephan Bechtel 20.109 78.484 560.874
34 Francesco Licciardi 24.846 83.790 574.335
35 Jonian Grazhdani 19.700 87.070 576.975
8 36 Moritz Karl 23.391 95.453 631.046
37 Jin-Yang Guo 20.738 102.782 742.726
38 Jakob Kogler 34.902 108.604 760.868
9 39 Timo Ludwig 37.844 127.359 918.952
10 40 Benjamin Schoentag 48.781 171.219 1195.281
41 "kakifried" 12.679 49.255 2247.919 999.999 x2
42 Jia-Qi Zheng 22.250 85.000 3289.058 999.999 x3
43 Han Lin 18.344 82.625 3347.466 999.999 x3
44 Patrick Hetco 30.339 168.653 3516.972 999.999 x3
45 Xue-Wu Tang 16.391 59.781 4144.106 999.999 x4
46 Shuang Zhao 16.788 80.682 4175.660 999.999 x4
47 "wjy_stolen" 15.590 DNF DNF 5086.886 999.999 x5
48 Jing Ma DNF 55.422 DNF 5294.729 999.999 x5
11 49 Elias Gailberger 45.281 DNF DNF 5322.136 999.999 x5
12 50 Jakob Vanhoefer 57.312 DNF DNF 5340.276 999.999 x5
13 51 Isabel Dittmann 142.719 822.796 5881.572 999.999 x4
52 Dan Zhou DNF 46.016 6203.542 999.999 x6
53 "daisy" DNF 48.047 7151.477 999.999 x7
54 Ji-Yun Wang (same as wjy_stolen?) 26.099 DNF DNF 9026.090 999.999 x9


*Ranking including online players

Videos

You can download the best 10 best videos (9 MB) for each player, or visit the Scoreganizer website for all videos and results.

Rules

Players will be ranked on the sum of their best 5 Intermediate and 5 Expert games. Each unfinished game will be given a penalty of 999.999 seconds.

Details

The tournament took place 23 June 2012 in Munich, at Nymphenburger Schulen starting at 2pm. Players had 3 hours to win at least 5 intermediate and 5 expert games. Players could compete in Munich or at home, with game videos uploaded to the Scoreganizer website. Players who attended received certificates and medals, "2012 Minesweeper World Championship" shirts were available in different colours, the top 9 players received posters and the top 3 sweepers won trophies.

The tournament used the minesweeper version Viennasweeper. Players could compete at the tournament or online, with scores uploaded live to the Scoreganizer website.

More Info

On Thursday, Fritz met Moritz and Rob for drinks at a beergarden where they discussed math and speedcubing. The next day Fritz collected Rob and Edu from the hostel and toured the city, meeting up later with Tommy and Elias for pizza near central station. The group put their powerful brains together and created a new sport, which involved throwing plastic bottles into trash cans. David had a bad flight and arrived at 2am, but he was keen to visit the Cubikon puzzle shop Saturday morning with most of the others before the tournament. This led to more sightseeing and pizza at Villa Dante, where they met Jakob, Timo, Isi and Thomas.

The players headed to Nymphenburger Schulen where Daniel and Stephan were waiting, and soon Benny and the remaining sweepers arrived. Players were given 30 minutes to warm-up. During the tournament Fritz blasted a 42 on the last click and had to leave the room to calm down, as this would have been a tournament world record. The results on the Scoreganizer website were shown live on the wall using a beamer.

At the awards ceremony Tommy was awarded a speedcube as a prize. (Most top sweepers are also top cubers). There was also a side event where players were given a print-out of a 170 3bv Expert game and told to solve it in the fewest clicks possible, and this was won by Robert.

As is tradition, after the competition everyone went bowling. Stephan easily hit 176 while Tommy stole the show with a Sub40, apparently thinking you are supposed to hit the empty spaces and avoid the pins.

This was the largest tournament in history, with 14 players taking part in Munich (1 only finished Beginner games) and another 41 players around the world playing online.

Bonus fact: There was a 10th poster - Fritz had all the players sign it and they mailed it, along with an extra medal, to the webmaster of this site.

Media

Trophies for the Winners



Fritz supervises the players. Looks like one or two Rubiks cubes and a Pacman shirt made it past security.
Fritz (standing) and Stephan, Robert, David, Tommy, Daniel, Elias.




Thomas in the zone...



World Champions? Players pose for a picture: Dave, Timo, Rob, Jakob, Stephan, Tommy, Moritz, Fritz, Benny, Edu, Elias. Tommy and Fritz wear their "2012 Minesweeper World Championship" shirts while Edu shows up in vintage "Munich 2012".














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