Munich 2012 Minesweeper Tournament Results
Rank	Rank*	Player	I	E	Sum	TOTAL (5&5)	Penalties
	1	Kamil Muranski	10.783	41.775		272.293
	2	Pavel Mishin	12.069	43.964		286.459
1	3	Thomas Kolar	13.219	42.687		294.060
2	4	Fritz Loehr	13.062	42.906		296.827
	5	Wen-Kai Xu	11.032	48.094		319.548
	6	"Capellini"	13.485	47.297		323.907
	7	Xiao-Yang Yang	15.648	46.553		327.172
	8	Zhang-Wen Mao	15.297	50.109		338.735
	9	Damien Moore	14.379	51.961		346.964
3	10	Robert Royals	14.297	53.657		349.969
	11	Aristeidis Kokkidis	15.063	52.344		353.580
	12	Arsen Balishyan	14.246	54.944		356.251
	13	Bertie Seyyfert	15.913	54.539		371.958
4	14	Dave Greer	17.125	55.937		376.607
	15	Yuan Fang	16.438	50.812		376.921
	16	Ke Zhou	13.781	56.625		380.797
5	17	Edu Cros	16.547	53.016		393.766
	18	Mao-Qi Chen	17.436	50.328		395.880
	19	Wei-Jia Guo	16.641	58.188		396.500
	20	Yuuki Nakagiri	17.380	57.566		396.558
	21	Guillaume Cabane	15.335	60.200		399.625
	22	Jun Tao	16.078	59.235		405.406
	23	Kai Sun	16.407	62.062		408.188
	24	Quan Zhou	15.766	59.671		420.155
	25	Hai-Bo Li	18.125	61.641		420.877
	26	Pengyun Ni	17.687	62.827		427.435
	27	"miusanhayasugi"	16.355	65.780		443.315
6	28	Daniel Hagenmeier	19.000	64.047		450.158
	29	Cho-Yong Choi	17.688	72.688		481.375
	30	"OCHO"	15.077	71.502		490.793
	31	Bodor Bertalan	19.484	74.125		501.953
	32	Maksim Bashov	21.422	64.640		515.688
7	33	Stephan Bechtel	20.109	78.484		560.874
	34	Francesco Licciardi	24.846	83.790		574.335
	35	Jonian Grazhdani	19.700	87.070		576.975
8	36	Moritz Karl	23.391	95.453		631.046
	37	Jin-Yang Guo	20.738	102.782		742.726
	38	Jakob Kogler	34.902	108.604		760.868
9	39	Timo Ludwig	37.844	127.359		918.952
10	40	Benjamin Schoentag	48.781	171.219		1195.281
	41	"kakifried"	12.679	49.255		2247.919	999.999 x2
	42	Jia-Qi Zheng	22.250	85.000		3289.058	999.999 x3
	43	Han Lin	18.344	82.625		3347.466	999.999 x3
	44	Patrick Hetco	30.339	168.653		3516.972	999.999 x3
	45	Xue-Wu Tang	16.391	59.781		4144.106	999.999 x4
	46	Shuang Zhao	16.788	80.682		4175.660	999.999 x4
	47	"wjy_stolen"	15.590	DNF	DNF	5086.886	999.999 x5
	48	Jing Ma	DNF	55.422	DNF	5294.729	999.999 x5
11	49	Elias Gailberger	45.281	DNF	DNF	5322.136	999.999 x5
12	50	Jakob Vanhoefer	57.312	DNF	DNF	5340.276	999.999 x5
13	51	Isabel Dittmann	142.719	822.796		5881.572	999.999 x4
	52	Dan Zhou	DNF	46.016		6203.542	999.999 x6
	53	"daisy"	DNF	48.047		7151.477	999.999 x7
	54	Ji-Yun Wang (same as wjy_stolen?)	26.099	DNF	DNF	9026.090	999.999 x9

*Ranking including online players

Videos

You can download the best 10 best videos (9 MB) for each player, or visit the Scoreganizer website for all videos and results.

Rules

Players will be ranked on the sum of their best 5 Intermediate and 5 Expert games. Each unfinished game will be given a penalty of 999.999 seconds.

Details

The tournament took place 23 June 2012 in Munich, at Nymphenburger Schulen starting at 2pm. Players had 3 hours to win at least 5 intermediate and 5 expert games. Players could compete in Munich or at home, with game videos uploaded to the Scoreganizer website. Players who attended received certificates and medals, "2012 Minesweeper World Championship" shirts were available in different colours, the top 9 players received posters and the top 3 sweepers won trophies.

The tournament used the minesweeper version Viennasweeper. Players could compete at the tournament or online, with scores uploaded live to the Scoreganizer website.

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On Thursday, Fritz met Moritz and Rob for drinks at a beergarden where they discussed math and speedcubing. The next day Fritz collected Rob and Edu from the hostel and toured the city, meeting up later with Tommy and Elias for pizza near central station. The group put their powerful brains together and created a new sport, which involved throwing plastic bottles into trash cans. David had a bad flight and arrived at 2am, but he was keen to visit the Cubikon puzzle shop Saturday morning with most of the others before the tournament. This led to more sightseeing and pizza at Villa Dante, where they met Jakob, Timo, Isi and Thomas.

The players headed to Nymphenburger Schulen where Daniel and Stephan were waiting, and soon Benny and the remaining sweepers arrived. Players were given 30 minutes to warm-up. During the tournament Fritz blasted a 42 on the last click and had to leave the room to calm down, as this would have been a tournament world record. The results on the Scoreganizer website were shown live on the wall using a beamer.

At the awards ceremony Tommy was awarded a speedcube as a prize. (Most top sweepers are also top cubers). There was also a side event where players were given a print-out of a 170 3bv Expert game and told to solve it in the fewest clicks possible, and this was won by Robert.

As is tradition, after the competition everyone went bowling. Stephan easily hit 176 while Tommy stole the show with a Sub40, apparently thinking you are supposed to hit the empty spaces and avoid the pins.

This was the largest tournament in history, with 14 players taking part in Munich (1 only finished Beginner games) and another 41 players around the world playing online.

Bonus fact: There was a 10th poster - Fritz had all the players sign it and they mailed it, along with an extra medal, to the webmaster of this site.

Media

Trophies for the Winners

Fritz supervises the players. Looks like one or two Rubiks cubes and a Pacman shirt made it past security.
Fritz (standing) and Stephan, Robert, David, Tommy, Daniel, Elias.

Thomas in the zone...

World Champions? Players pose for a picture: Dave, Timo, Rob, Jakob, Stephan, Tommy, Moritz, Fritz, Benny, Edu, Elias. Tommy and Fritz wear their "2012 Minesweeper World Championship" shirts while Edu shows up in vintage "Munich 2012".

Munich 2012 Minesweeper Tournament Results

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