WSPC 2023 in Toronto (Canada)
The host for the World Sudoku and Puzzle Championships 2023 is now final. It will take place in Toronto (Canada) from Sunday, 15th October until Sunday, 22nd October and be organized by the U.S. Puzzle Championship and the Canadian puzzle team.
Details:
- World Sudoku Championship: October 16-17
- World Puzzle Championship: October 19-21
- Venue: Don Valley Hotel and Suites, in the North York district of Toronto. It is nicely located 21 minutes from Lester Pearson International Airport and 15 minutes from the heart of the city.
- Organizing team (more people to be added later): Thomas Snyder and Nick Baxter (Puzzles), David Baines and Elyot Grant (Hosts), Will Shortz (Director)
- Costs: 850 Euro per person with double occupancy for seven nights for "A" and "B" team members (plus captain). The amount for "C" team members may be more. Current estimations for only WSC is 410 Euro or for only WPC 530 Euro.
Further information about the registration will follow.
WPF Rating
In various sports exist some kind of ranking. One example is in tennis with the ATP world ranking, another one in chess with the FIDE world ranking using the Elo rating system. We drafted a first version of a rating system for puzzle solvers. How the rating is computed, can be found at: WPF_Ratings_Synthesis.pdf
Furthermore we used the results of the GP 2021/2022 and the WSPC 2022 to get the current ratings of almost 900 solvers.
All rounds of the WPF Sudoku/Puzzle GP 2023 will be taken into account, as well as potentially other events. Updated ratings and rankings will be released on a regular basis.
Soon we will upload a similar rating for puzzles as well.
Any feedback, questions or ideas are warmly welcome either by mail or directly on our Discord server.
World Sudoku & Puzzle Championship 2022 in Krakow
After two years break because of coronavirus pandemic, it was finally possible to have the World Sudoku & Puzzle Championship in 2022.
Here are the results:
World Sudoku Championship
Top 3: 1. Tiit Vunk (Estonia), 2. Tantan Dai (China), 3. Kota Morinishi (Japan)
Teams Top 3: 1. Czechia, 2. Japan, 3. Estonia
Total participants: 191 individuals and 50 teams
World Puzzle Championship
Top 3: 1. Ken Endo (Japan), 2. Prasanna Seshadri (India), 3. Thomas Luo (USA)
Teams Top 3: 1. Japan, 2. USA, 3. Germany
Total participants: 196 individuals and 49 teams
All results can be found at the event's website and WPF Facebook.
Furthermore the finals of the WPF Sudoku/Puzzle Grand-Prix 2022 took place in Krakow as well:
WPF Sudoku Grand Prix finals Top 3: 1. Kota Morinishi (Japan), 2. Tantan Dai (China), 3. Timothy Doyle (France)
WPF Puzzle Grand Prix finals Top 3: 1. Thomas Snyder (USA), 2. Kota Morinishi (Japan), 3. Ken Endo (Japan)
