Well, regardless of the temperature, it's time to get back to work - and fun: back to answering PL/SQL, SQL and APEX quizzes...and it's also time for the Q4 2011 championship playoff.
You will find below the list of players who have qualified, either through ranking, correctness or wildcard. The number in parentheses are the number of playoffs in which the player has previously participated. Which means 11 players have never participated in a playoff before. Watch out, seasoned players, for some hot competition.
Congratulations to everyone on the list and best of luck in the playoff!
We will soon announce the date of the playoff, after confirming availability with players.
Warm regards to all,
Steven Feuerstein
Players in the Q4 2011 Championship Playoff
| Name | Rank | Qualification | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alain Boulianne (1) | 1 | Top 25 | French Republic |
| Stelios Vlasopoulos (1) | 2 | Top 25 | Greece |
| Frank Schrader (5) | 3 | Top 25 | Germany |
| Valentin Nikotin (3)** | 4 | Top 25 | Russia |
| Syed Ariful Bari (1) | 5 | Top 25 | Bangladesh |
| Ninoslav Čerkez (1) | 6 | Top 25 | Croatia |
| Viacheslav Stepanov (3) | 7 | Top 25 | Russia |
| Chris Saxon (2) | 8 | Top 25 | United Kingdom |
| mentzel.iudith (4) | 9 | Top 25 | Israel |
| kowido (3) | 10 | Top 25 | No Country Set |
| Chad Lee (2) | 11 | Top 25 | United States |
| monpara.sanjay (0) | 12 | Top 25 | India |
| Mike Pargeter (4) | 13 | Top 25 | United Kingdom |
| Jeff Kemp (6) | 14 | Top 25 | Australia |
| Janis Baiza (3) | 15 | Top 25 | Latvia |
| Kevan Gelling (3) | 16 | Top 25 | Isle of Man |
| Hrvoje Torbašinović (2) | 17 | Top 25 | Croatia |
| Randy Gettman (4) | 18 | Top 25 | United States |
| Siim Kask (4) | 19 | Top 25 | Estonia |
| Dejan Topalovic (1) | 20 | Top 25 | Austria |
| Jerry Bull (2) | 21 | Top 25 | United States |
| Anna Onishchuk (3) | 22 | Top 25 | Ireland |
| _tiki_4_ (0) | 23 | Top 25 | Germany |
| james su (3) | 24 | Top 25 | Canada |
| Niels Hecker (5) | 25 | Top 25 | Germany |
| Andre van der Put (0) | 26 | Wildcard | Netherlands |
| John Hall (3) | 27 | Correctness | United States |
| Yuan Tschang (1) | 29 | Correctness | United States |
| Justin Michael Raj (0) | 56 | Wildcard | India |
| Nina (0) | 58 | Wildcard | Russia |
| Joaquin Gonzalez (3) | 60 | Correctness | Spain |
| Dalibor Kovač (3) | 61 | Correctness | Croatia |
| Frank Schmitt (0) | 82 | Wildcard | Germany |
| ZoltanKekes (1) | 83 | Correctness | United States |
| Gideon Bruggink (0) | 103 | Correctness | Netherlands |
| Vincent Malgrat (0) | 108 | Correctness | French Republic |
| sbramhe (2) | 123 | Wildcard | No Country Set |
| Dennis Klemme (5) | 146 | Wildcard | Germany |
| andrewc (0) | 206 | Correctness | New Zealand |
| dsinagl (0) | 313 | Correctness | No Country Set |
| Pedro Bravet (0) | 436 | Correctness | Spain |
**Valentin Nikotin was incorrectly left off the initial list of participants because in Q1 2012, he changed to non-competitive play so that he could help the PL/SQL Challenge by writing lots of quizzes. Due to a bug in our algorithms, that left him out of the qualifying process for the playoff. So we have added him into the playoff, and also kept Andre van der Put in the playoff (he is now ranked 26th) as a Wildcard player.
Go Go Mentzel Iudith! I'm so proud.
ReplyDeleteNir Carasso
Thanks Nir, you make me feel embarrassed !
ReplyDeleteFor the other readers of this blog, Nir Carasso
is one of the best DBA-s that I have ever met
and the best colleague that I have ever worked with for several good years.
One should probably visit this site more often
to see how great players are playing this challenge daily.
Yes, we, the "seasoned players" are well aware
of what is "the PlayOff feeling" :) :) :)
It is always a great satisfaction to qualify,
the failure comes afterwards only ...
And this last quarter was an especially tough one.
Thanks a lot & Best Regards,
Iudith