And yet another TPR is finished... In the veteran section, a lot of people found the basic best known solution. What distinguishes Rick and Stephen from the followers is that they found \pL trick which allows you to shave one character from the regex.
Jeff Moore found the \pL in the last half hour, but has a slightly worse tiebreaker: Rick, Stephen: 54.563 Jeff: 54.559 So Rick and Stephen win this one. The question arose how to determine the final winner. Simple: we have joint winners, and I got confirmation from O'Reilly that both can get a book, so no play-off will be needed. In the beginner section it looked for a long time as if the secret winner would be Szeryf (secret because something evil promoted him to veteran against his will, so he wasn't visible on the beginner board). However, Paul van Eldijk made an impressive last effort and threw himself in front of the pack, coming from pretty far behind. Unfortunately (for him) he got trampled in the last half hour by Szeryf who still had some forward momentum. As you can see in the post-mortem, most people concentrated on algorithm two, and rightly so, all top scores come from that one. Still, at least a 62 was possible with algorithm one. Congratulations to the winners.
