Vienna 2006 Minesweeper Tournament Results
Rank	Player	I	E	Sum	TOTAL (6&6)
1	Manuel Heider	15.62	51.41	67.03	431.71
2	Damien Moore	14.79	52.62	67.41	437.01
3	Pap Gyula	18.15	62.09	80.24	504.78
4	Thomas Kolar	19.18	64.72	83.90	528.97
5	Christoph Nikolaus	18.83	62.45	80.92	535.41
6	Nagy Gergely	18.14	67.39	95.53	538.22
7	Stephan Bechtel	17.14	67.31	84.42	569.25
8	Jonian Grazhdani	19.87	71.62	91.49	619.28
9	Robert Farnik	19.68	76.29	95.97	635.9
10	Jan Farnik	25.64	95.30	120.94	795.4
11	Andreas Fuchs	28.62	94.53	123.15	801.70
12	Andreas Marx	28.39	86.93	115.32	815.32

Videos

Most videos are lost but you can download 8 tournament videos here.

Rules

The player with the lowest sum of 6 Intermediate and 6 Expert games is the winner.

Details

The competition was organised by Christoph Nikolaus and took place on 28 July 2006 at the University of Vienna, Room 204 of the Faculty of Mathematics. The first session was Beginner, where each person played 8 sessions of seeing who could finish 10 games first. This was followed by 1 hour of Intermediate and 1 hour of Expert. The final session was 1 more hour to play either Intermediate or Expert. After the award ceremony, there was a small Nonosweeper tournament.

09:00 - 09:30	Beginner	8 sessions of first to win 10 games
09:45 - 11:15	Intermediate	Lowest sum of 5 Int scores wins session
11:30 - 13:00	Expert	Lowest sum of 5 Expert scores wins session
13:45 - 14:45	Overall	Lowest sum of 6 Int + 6 Exp games from entire day wins
15:00	Ceremony	Winner announced and certificates given to participants
15:30 - 18:00	Nonosweeper	4 sessions on various boards using points system
18:00	Ceremony	Final results announced from Nonosweeper session

More Info

Christoph programmed a new version of minesweeper, ViennaSweeper, for the tournament. This allowed him to network the computers to display results on a screen during the competition. ViennaSweeper can also be turned on or off by the administrator, and this controlled when participants could play.

Damien Moore has made a very detailed report on the tournament. which includes all results from each session.

The original announcement for the competition can be found here.

Pictures

The Players: Andreas Marx, Andreas Fuchs, Jan Farnik, Christoph Nikolaus, Robert Farnik, Manuel Heider, Damien Moore, Gyula Pap, Stephan Bechtel, Gergely Nagy, Jonian Grazhdani & Thomas Kolar