Well that was another fantastic year! The whole team here would like to congratulate you all on your amazing efforts, the future of the country's cyber security is clearly safe in your hands. I would like to give particular thanks to the elves here at Southampton who run the site and the forum, and to all the teachers and parents who encouraged you and didn't make you go to bed too early to finish the challenge. Big thanks too, of course, to all of you who took part.You should be very proud of your achievments.
For the last time this year we can announce the winners of the weekly challenge prizes, and the winners for Challenge 8A are
Jonathan from Beechen Cliff School
Mohamed Hamza from Ealing Independent College
Eric Hoang, Oscar from Bryanston School
Ella Margetts from Roding Valley High School
Nathan Kurien, Muntaha Naeem, Chisom from Westcliff High School for Boys Academy
Yasmin England from King Edward VI Grammar School
ReginaldJeeves team from Bournemouth School
and CrypticCipher from Ermysted's Grammar School
Now to the winners of the four main prizes this year:
The GCHQ prize for best individual entry of £1000 is awarded to Jolyon Shah of St Edwards School, Cheltenham
The Trinity College prize of £800 is awarded to James Hogge of the Abingdon School
The University of Southampton prize for the best team entry of £1,000 is awarded to Ilya Shemmer's team Thunder+c, of King Edward VII School, Sheffield
The IBM prize of £800 for runner-up team is awarded to to Alex Barter's team The Grizzly Armadillos of the Cotswold Academy
There will be a prizegiving at Bletchley Park on Friday, 4 March, and if you would like tickets you can apply for them online at www.cipher.maths.soton.ac.uk/tickets.
We hope to see you there.
Congratulations once more to all of you I hope that those who are not too old will try again next year. The National Cipher Challenge the challenge will return in October 2016.
Best wishes and good luck with all your exams,
Harry