2024 UK Results Thread

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The final Sudoku GP of the year is now done and it was a mixed bag with some solvers doing better than average and some doing worse. The obvious highlight from a UK perspective was Matt Siegfried topping 500 points for the first time in #51, but there were a few other strong performances worthy of note; Ned Walker in #114 was 21% up on his recent average, Michael Walker in #219 achieved his highest score to date and Mike Colloby in #246 was nearly 30% up on his recent average.

All in all, over the year, there were a few people who've seen big improvements in their UK ranking: Matt Siegfried is up from #7 to #3, Zoe Ashford went up from #15 to #11, Michael Walker went up from #31 to #18, Anthony Ford went up from #23 to #19 and Maurice Blount went up from #28 to #22. There were also a few solvers new into the top 20; Ned Walker into #9, Dylan Gibbs into #15 and Tom Hayton into #16.

Here is the UK top 20 at the end of the season:

1) Sam Cappleman-Lynes
2) Freddie Hand
3) Matt Siegfried
4) Jack Lawrence
5) Mark Goodliffe
6) Tom Collyer
7) Jeremy Kong
8) Calum Mailer
9) Ned Walker
10) Neil Zussman
11) Zoe Ashford
12) Matthew White
13) Tim Tom
14) Adam Bissett
15) Dylan Gibbs
16) Tom Hayton
17) Art Ed
18) Michael Walker
19) Anthony Ford
20) Emma McCaughan

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Adam - whilst this ranking is perhaps a good reflection of what’s happened in the GP, I’m not totally convinced it gives a satisfying ranking - not least because David McNeill isn’t on it. Rather than presenting as a definitive UK ranking, could you make clearer this is more about the GP, and that its main advantage over the actual GP rankings is that it allows comparison even when participants don’t have a full set of rounds?

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The whole thread is about Grand Prix so hopefully people can correctly infer that this is a Grand Prix ranking, as is this wrap up of the Puzzle Grand Prix.

Round 8's standout performer was certainly James McGowan, topping his previous best position of #8 with a #3 placing,, and a 36% increase on his recent average. Outside this, marks were hard to come by and many puzzlers failed to reach their recent average in this round, but Calum Mailer was another highlight, with a 27% increase on his recent average and a new high position of #61.

Now that we are at the end of the season, a review of the season's performances shows that Calum Mailer had an excellent first season and is in at #9 of the UK ranking, with Aleksei Daniliuk at #11 and Todd Davies at #15 in a good showing for new solvers. Desirée Wilson had the biggest increase, up from #21 to #13, and Liane Robinson up from #36 to #31.

This leaves the top 20 Puzzle Grand Prix rankings of UK solvers at the end of 2024 as follows:

1) Freddie Hand
2) Sam Cappleman-Lynes
3) Neil Zussman
4) James McGowan
5) Adam Bissett
6) Helen Arnold
7) Matthew White
8) Tom Collyer
9) Calum Mailer
10) Dylan Gibbs
11) Aleksei Daniliuk
12) Jeremy Kong
13) Desirée Wilson
14) Maurice Blount
15) Todd Davies
16) Michael Collins
17) Steve Barge
18) Emma McCaughan
19) Anthony Ford
20) Anthea McMillan

[DavidC]

Thanks for the clarification. That explains why I am 20th (for the UK!) on the official Sudoku GP website but I don't appear on the Sudoku GP list here.