There's no thread for this so I thought I'd start one
Round 1 starts on Friday; the competition will be open until Monday evening. Instructions can be found here: http://gp.worldpuzzle.org/sites/default ... nd1_IB.pdf
It is definitely worth noting that the format this year is quite different as the competition is effectively split into two parts: "Competitive" and "Casual".
Competitive is basically more of the same from last year.
When it comes to play-off qualification, only competitive score matters!
Casual is slightly more quirky, and possibly not language neutral puzzles. However, they are the sort of thing that might have attracted people to the USPC in the olden days and might generally prove to be more fun to the more casual audience, who don't have decipher the rules to some obscure tapa variant only to find out that you also need to be far more familiar than the average joe with classic tapa to have a hope in hell of solving it.
There is also a combined score, which is your casual score plus your competitive score.
Now to bonuses, and what your solving strategy should be:
Claim bonus only requires you to finish the competitive set. BUT: you can still submit Casual answers after claiming bonus.
In other words if you are serious about things, you should definitely focus on the competitive section. When you are done with the competitive puzzles, have claimed your bonus, then you can also submit answers to casual puzzles with the remaining time.
Doesn't matter what the type is, having anything be 60% of a GP test is rather disappointing.
