17th World Puzzle Championship, Minsk (Belarus)
The 17th World Puzzle Championship (WPC) took place October 27 - November 1st 2008 in Minsk, Belarus. The organizer was Vladimir Portugalov who did a great job, especially considering the fact that he had hardly four months to do it all.
Individual champion for the 6th time was Ulrich Voigt from Germany. The best team was the team of the united States. See also the individual and team results on this website and the tournament's website.
Simultaneously, the General Assembly of the World Puzzle Federation took place. The most important decisions were:
- The World Puzzle Championship (WPC) 2010 will be in Poland
- The World Sudoku Championship (WSC) 2010 will be in the United States
- Starting in 2011, the WPC and WSC will be combined into one event.
- Vítezslav Koudelka, Kamer Alyanakyan and Peter Ritmeester were (re)elected as board members
- The board elected Valter Kvalic to be its chairman
