CEREBRA - THE ULTIMATE PUZZLE CHAMPIONSHIP

"Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution." - Stephen Sondheim

Intriguing puzzles for the best minds.This event presents a motley of problems of varying difficulty that keep you engrossed. Only the best minds could crack the intriguing puzzles that we provide. So take your turn at pitting yourself against the puzzles that we come up. And like they say "Nothing but the best for you people". Go up against our challenge and see how you come out.

Several fascinating prizes up for grabs for the deserving. Get ready to take part in the marathon, and run to your wits ends.

http://www.cerebra.kurukshetra.org.in





 The event is intended for individuals and no teams shall be allowed.

The event will be held both online and onsite:

Online:

1. The event will be held online on every Saturday 10pm to 12pm commencing from January 5th 2008 leading up to Kurukshetra.


    First edition: Jan 5th 2008 , Saturday 10pm - 12pm
    Second edition: Jan 12th 2008 , Saturday 10pm - 12pm
    Third edition: Jan 19th 2008 , Saturday 10pm - 12pm


2. All three editions online are independent.

3. The event will be conducted only over those two hours period (similar to an online programming contest).

4. No separate registrations for the event and you can use the Kurukshetra login id and password to play the event. If you have not registered to Kurukshetra'08 yet, make sure you do so before the event.

5. Rules and scoring system will be made available only an hour before the event starts. Users are requested login to the event page atleast half an hour before the event starts, to ensure that you don't miss out on the action even for a single minute.

http://www.cerebra.kurukshetra.org.in

Onsite:

1. The Cerebra puzzle championship is scheduled to take place on all days during Kurukshetra.

2. The event will be held only during a particular period in the schedule and the participants are expected to be present  during that time at the venue.

3. There will be prizes for individual day winners and also Championship prizes.



Among the winners of each edition, the top ranker will take home the iPod with the rest of the top ten finishers winning attractive Kurukshetra goodies.


Winners of First edition:

Click here to view the first edition problem set


 Rank Name                                                 College                                                                              
 1  Pranab Medhi
 National Institute of Technology, Warangal
 2  Hemant Kumar
 National Institute of Technology, Warangal
 3  Balamurali RG
 Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai
 4  Lakshminarayanan Dhanasekaran
 CEG, Anna University, Chennai
 5
 Arun S
 CEG, Anna University, Chennai
 6  Venkatesh G
 GCT, Coimbatore
 7  Manikandan K
 CEG, Anna University, Chennai
 8  Vishnuvardhan L
 CEG, Anna University, Chennai
 9  Abirami S
 CEG, Anna University, Chennai
 10  Kailash Chandrasekaran
 Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai


Winners of Second edition:

Click here to view the second edition problem set

 Rank    Name                                            
College                 
1
 Pranab Medhi
 National Institute of Technology, Warangal
 2  Narayan Goenka
 National Institute of Technology, Warangal
 3  Balamurali RG
 Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai
 4  Mahip Vyas
 Institute of Mgmt, Nirma, Ahmedabad
 5  Kaarthik Sundar
 CEG, Anna University, Chennai
 6  Amit Kumar
 MNNIT, Allahabad
 7  Pallab Medhi
 Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneshwar
 8  Suriya
 BITS - PILANI, Goa Campus
 9  Raghunath Babu
 CEG, Anna University, Chennai
 10  Abirami S
 CEG, Anna University, Chennai

Contact:

Gajendran               +91 - 94449 31479      

Or post your queries @ Kurukshetra forum.