Well not really, but yet again I am amazed by the fortitude and ability of everyone who took part this year. Whether you cracked a Casear shift cipher for the first time, or coded a Trifid cracker in assembly code for Challenge 8 you all learned something new.
The Trifid cipher in 8B this year turned out to be really challenging and full credit to everyone who managed it. You fully deserved your success. We will certainly be celebrating all your acheivements at the Prizegiving at Bletchley on April 12th.
And now for the prizes themselves.
The GCHQ prize of £1,000 is awarded to Samson Danziger, Daniel Hu, Anthony Landau and Charlie Hu (the aptly named Winning_Combination) from City of London School who took a mere 44 hours 20 minutes to crack the final challenge.
The IBM Prize of £800 is awarded to Andrew Carlotti (mad_maths_man) from Sir Roger Manwood's School. He was just beaten to the punch, taking 46 hours 54 minutes.
The Trinity College prize of £700 is awarded to the biggest winning team ever, Eve Pound, Thomas Barnard, Tanya Sciamanna, Rachel Sangar, Oliver Kardoosh, Timothy Lennox, Jasmine Brown, Teodor Tzokov, Alexander Murray, Rosemary Stillman, Alice Butler, Thomas Honeywell, Thomas Wilshaw. Eve Pound (TeamSolitaire) from King Edward VII School, Sheffield.
GCHQ Raspberry Pi computers and Netcraft Rucksacks: The fifty members of the top 17 teams on the overall leaderboard have been awarded Raspberry Pi computers and Netcraft rucksacks.
As usual we have the part A prizes to award as well and each of the following 8 teams will win a cheque for £25. We will be in touch by email to the address you gave us when registering, so do please check it and get back to us promptly so we can process your award.
To everyone else, there is always next year! Good luck, Hope to see you then
Harry
Winners of the Part 8A Prizes:
Claire, Juliet, Nadhira from King Edward VII
HCD,KEH,RPR from Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
David Dixon, Jordan Curnow ,William Dash from Richard Lander School
jasmine egeh odette burgin from forge valley community school
roots of unity from Teignmouth Community School
Jazz Brush Dan Brush from Yateley School
David Maskill & Souradip Mookerjee from The Manchester Grammar School
Arno Liang, Brian Shi, Tom Hampshire, Jonah Walker, James Anderson-Besant, Alex Lennox, Julian Ting from Abingdon School
