Well done for everyone who had a go at Challenge 6B the padding and the extra characters really made it tough. Anyway, here are the winners for the part A prizes in that round:
1. The Chadster and fogmike from Judd
2. Griffin from Ralph Allen
3. Adam Hill, Andrew Dunnings and Martin Worthington from Tarleton High School
4. Ellina, Beth , Constance, Genna , Megan and Mandi from Millais, Horsham
5. Emmabob And Mellybob from South Wilts Grammar School
6. Gayathri Sanal, Chris Langdon and Amanda Lisle from Yeovil College
7. Laura Plant, Rachel Harrison, Emily Davies, Rachael Bowes and Jon Wozniak from Cheadle High School
8. Ellie, Steven, Spongebobjimpants and Mengi from Liverpool Blue Coat School
and the book prize goes to Bishop Wordsworth Grammar School for the efforts of William Salkeld, Eleanor Salkeld and Guy Niblett.
The points schedule for Challenge 7 is as follows:
20/11/08 15:15 20/11/08 20:00 54 points
20/11/08 20:00 21/11/08 00:00 53 points
21/11/08 00:00 21/11/08 12:00 52 points
21/11/08 12:00 21/11/08 16:00 51 points
21/11/08 16:00 21/11/08 20:00 50 points
21/11/08 20:00 22/11/08 00:00 49 points
22/11/08 00:00 22/11/08 12:00 48 points
22/11/08 12:00 22/11/08 16:00 47 points
22/11/08 16:00 22/11/08 20:00 46 points
22/11/08 20:00 23/11/08 00:00 45 points
23/11/08 00:00 23/11/08 12:00 44 points
23/11/08 12:00 23/11/08 16:00 43 points
23/11/08 16:00 23/11/08 20:00 42 points
23/11/08 20:00 24/11/08 00:00 41 points
24/11/08 00:00 24/11/08 12:00 40 points
24/11/08 12:00 24/11/08 16:00 39 points
24/11/08 16:00 24/11/08 20:00 38 points
24/11/08 20:00 25/11/08 00:00 37 points
25/11/08 00:00 25/11/08 12:00 36 points
25/11/08 12:00 25/11/08 16:00 35 points
25/11/08 16:00 25/11/08 20:00 34 points
25/11/08 20:00 26/11/08 00:00 33 points
26/11/08 00:00 26/11/08 12:00 32 points
26/11/08 12:00 26/11/08 16:00 31 points
26/11/08 16:00 26/11/08 20:00 30 points
26/11/08 20:00 27/11/08 00:00 29 points
27/11/08 00:00 27/11/08 12:00 28 points
27/11/08 12:00 27/11/08 16:00 27 points
27/11/08 16:00 27/11/08 20:00 26 points
27/11/08 20:00 28/11/08 00:00 25 points
28/11/08 00:00 28/11/08 12:00 24 points
28/11/08 12:00 28/11/08 16:00 23 points
28/11/08 16:00 28/11/08 20:00 22 points
28/11/08 20:00 29/11/08 00:00 21 points
29/11/08 00:00 29/11/08 12:00 20 points
29/11/08 12:00 29/11/08 16:00 19 points
29/11/08 16:00 29/11/08 20:00 18 points
29/11/08 20:00 30/11/08 00:00 17 points
30/11/08 00:00 30/11/08 12:00 16 points
30/11/08 12:00 30/11/08 16:00 15 points
30/11/08 16:00 30/11/08 20:00 14 points
30/11/08 20:00 1/12/08 00:00 13 points
1/12/08 00:00 1/12/08 12:00 12 points
1/12/08 12:00 1/12/08 16:00 11 points
1/12/08 16:00 1/12/08 20:00 10 points
1/12/08 20:00 2/12/08 00:00 9 points
2/12/08 00:00 2/12/08 12:00 8 points
2/12/08 12:00 2/12/08 16:00 7 points
2/12/08 16:00 2/12/08 20:00 6 points
2/12/08 20:00 3/12/08 00:00 5 points
3/12/08 00:00 3/12/08 12:00 4 points
3/12/08 12:00 3/12/08 16:00 3 points
3/12/08 16:00 3/12/08 20:00 2 points
3/12/08 20:00 3/12/08 23:59 1 points
Owing to a misunderstanding between Mr. Php and Prof. MySQL the leader boards we published earlier today were not entirely consonant with the actualite. The confusion arose because Mr. Php forgot to tell us that he didn't put his clock back to GMT last weekend, so anyone who submitted their solution within an hour of a deadline was treated as missing it. Luckily Prof. MySQL agreed to mark everyone's work again, and we have now published new leader boards. As a result there are actually 20 teams in joint first place on the overall Leader Board, not the 15 we advertised earlier. Sorry about the confusion.
Well done to everyone who cracked Challenges 5A and 5B, this was a tough round and the top of the overall leaderboard shows it. We are down to just 16 sharing top honours for the competition. Of course if they all slip up there is still room for people lower down to steal the title.
Anyway, here are the winners of the Challenge 5A prizes:
The book prize goes to Chatham Grammar School For Boys for the efforts of Short Stuff, (Cryptus, Zacsafus, Mr Biggles and Banksy), while the following teams each win one of the £25 cheques:
Kolobok from Dame Alice Owen's School
Tree Huggers from Wootton Bassett
Anna, Iona, Laura, Giulia, Alisha, Jeannine and Tianna from Queen's Gate
Patrick and Andrew from Woodbridge School
Mohamed Husein, Mahmood Husein, Douglas Benn, Jawad Arshad, Matt Mitchell and from Walton High School
Ed from The Gryphon School
Captain Nosh from Barton Peveril
Helen Wickins from Alcester Grammar School
Here is the schedule of points for Challenge 6B which will be published on Thursday 6th November at 3.15pm. The dates and times refer to the end of the period for which the points are allocated, so to get full marks (54 points) you need to submit on or before midnight 6th of November (zero hundred hours on the 7th), to get 52 marks you need to submit before 2pm on the 7th, and so on.
54 points 7/11/08 00:00 day 1 midnight
52 points 7/11/08 14:00 day 2 morning
50 points 8/11/08 00:00 day 2 evening
48 points 8/11/08 14:00 day 3 morning
46 points 9/11/08 00:00 day 3 evening
44 points 9/11/08 14:00 day 4 morning
42 points 10/11/08 00:00 day 4 evening
40 points 10/11/08 14:00 day 5 morning
38 points 11/11/08 00:00 day 5 evening
36 points 11/11/08 14:00 day 6 morning
34 points 12/11/08 00:00 day 6 evening
32 points 12/11/08 14:00 day 7 morning
30 points 13/11/08 00:00 day 7 evening
28 points 13/11/08 14:00 day 8 morning
26 points 14/11/08 00:00 day 8 evening
24 points 14/11/08 14:00 day 9 morning
22 points 15/11/08 00:00 day 9 evening
20 points 15/11/08 14:00 day 10 morning
18 points 16/11/08 00:00 day 10 evening
16 points 16/11/08 14:00 day 11 morning
14 points 17/11/08 00:00 day 11 evening
12 points 17/11/08 14:00 day 12 morning
10 points 18/11/08 00:00 day 12 evening
8 points 18/11/08 14:00 day 13 morning
6 points 19/11/08 00:00 day 13 evening
4 points 19/11/08 14:00 day 14 morning
2 points 19/11/08 23:59 day 14 midnight finish