20 January 2015

Participants and Dates set for (four!) 2014 Annual Championships

2014 is a thing of the past, but there are at least four more 2014-related activities to do: the annual championships.

With the expanding selection of weekly quizzes come an expanded set of annual championships.

This year we have four, and here are the dates and times:
  • SQL Championship - Tuesday, February 17, 14:00 UTC
  • Database Design Championship - Thursday, February 19, 14:00 UTC
  • Logic Championship - Tuesday, February 24, 14:00 UTC
  • PL/SQL Championship - Thursday, February 26, 14:00 UTC
Once again, my apologies to those of you who must participate at an awkward and dark hour.

And now for the lists of participants....

SQL Championship - Tuesday, February 17, 10:00 UTC

The following players will be invited to participate in the 2014 championship. The number in parentheses after their names are the number of championships in which they have already participated. See the FAQ for an explanation of the three ways a player can qualify for the championship. And congratulations to all listed below on their accomplishment and best of luck in the upcoming competition!

Name Rank Qualification Country
Stelios Vlasopoulos (1)1Top 50Belgium
Rakesh Dadhich (1)2Top 50India
mentzel.iudith (1)3Top 50Israel
swart260 (1)4Top 50Netherlands
Naresh Kumar (1)5Top 50India
james su (1)6Top 50Canada
Rytis Budreika (1)7Top 50Lithuania
_tiki_4_ (1)8Top 50Germany
Ivan Blanarik (1)9Top 50Slovakia
Niels Hecker (1)10Top 50Germany
Oleksiy Varchyn (0)11Top 50Norway
Justin Cave (1)12Top 50United States
Milibor Jovanovic (1)13Top 50Serbia
Chase Mei (1)14Top 50Canada
Viacheslav Stepanov (1)15Top 50Russia
Henry Abeska (0)16Top 50Czech Republic
Scott Wesley (1)17Top 50Australia
Sean Molloy (1)18Top 50United States
Andrey Zaytsev (0)19Top 50Russia
Krzysztof Helbin (1)20Top 50Poland
Hertha Rettinger (1)21Top 50Germany
Maxim Borunov (0)22Top 50Russia
Sachi (1)23Top 50United States
dmitrysk (1)24Top 50Russia
yonderboi (0)25Top 50Russia
Leszek Grudzień (1)26Top 50Poland
Dipendra Thapa (0)27Top 50India
Arūnas Antanaitis (0)28Top 50Lithuania
Ravshan Abbasov (0)29Top 50Uzbekistan
Sameer Chaudhari (0)30Top 50India
Pavel Zeman (0)31Top 50Czech Republic
Pavel Vorontsov (1)32Top 50Russia
Pavel Noga (0)33Top 50Czech Republic
tonyC (0)34Top 50United Kingdom
Anna Onishchuk (1)35Top 50Ireland
Jerry Bull (1)36Top 50United States
fsqatech (0)37Top 50United Kingdom
Sandra99 (0)38Top 50Italy
Kuvardin Evgeniy (1)39Top 50Russia
gaurav kowale (0)40Top 50India
Jason H (1)41Top 50United States
Christoph Hillinger (1)42Top 50Austria
gobruins (0)43Top 50United States
Livio Curzola (0)44Top 50Luxembourg
Chad Lee (1)45Top 50United States
Eric Levin (1)46Top 50United States
Michal Cvan (1)47Top 50Slovakia
NarendraReddy (0)48Top 50India
Tobias Stark (1)49Top 50Germany
VictorD (0)50Top 50Russia
Yuan Tschang (1)69CorrectnessUnited States
Mehrab (0)77CorrectnessUnited Kingdom
AndreyBerliner (0)89CorrectnessUkraine

Database Design Championship - Thursday, February 19, 10:00 UTC

The following players will be invited to participate in the 2014 championship.The number in parentheses after their names are the number of championships in which they have already participated - they are all zero because this is the very first championship for this quiz!

See the FAQ for an explanation of the three ways a player can qualify for the championship. And congratulations to all listed below on their accomplishment and best of luck in the upcoming competition!

Name Rank Qualification Country
mentzel.iudith (0)1Top 50Israel
Siim Kask (0)2Top 50Estonia
Justin Cave (0)3Top 50United States
Elic (0)4Top 50Belarus
Stelios Vlasopoulos (0)5Top 50Belgium
Niels Hecker (0)6Top 50Germany
Joaquin Gonzalez (0)7Top 50Spain
Milibor Jovanovic (0)8Top 50Serbia
Krzysztof Helbin (0)9Top 50Poland
yonderboi (0)10Top 50Russia
Chad Lee (0)11Top 50United States
Sean Molloy (0)12Top 50United States
Sandra99 (0)13Top 50Italy
Sherry (0)14Top 50Czech Republic
Pavel Noga (0)15Top 50Czech Republic
Ivan Blanarik (0)16Top 50Slovakia
Manfred Kleander (0)17Top 50Austria
Rytis Budreika (0)18Top 50Lithuania
Jan van Overveld (0)19Top 50Netherlands
Maxim Borunov (0)20Top 50Russia
Leszek Grudzień (0)21Top 50Poland
Tobias Stark (0)22Top 50Germany
Scott Wesley (0)23Top 50Australia
Pavel Zeman (0)24Top 50Czech Republic
Viacheslav Stepanov (0)25Top 50Russia
Christoph Hillinger (0)26Top 50Austria
Marcus Matzberger (0)27Top 50Germany
Jerry Bull (0)28Top 50United States
VictorD (0)29Top 50Russia
MarkM. (0)30Top 50Germany
Pavel Vorontsov (0)31Top 50Russia
João Barreto (0)32Top 50Portugal
_tiki_4_ (0)33Top 50Germany
Anna Onishchuk (0)34Top 50Ireland
dannyg64 (0)35Top 50United States
Andrey Zaytsev (0)36Top 50Russia
danad (0)37Top 50Czech Republic
EdgarsP (0)38Top 50Latvia
Ravshan Abbasov (0)39Top 50Uzbekistan
Sachi (0)40Top 50United States
Eric Levin (0)41Top 50United States
Oleksiy Varchyn (0)42Top 50Norway
JasonC (0)43Top 50United Kingdom
Chase Mei (0)44Top 50Canada
Henry Abeska (0)45Top 50Czech Republic
Naresh Kumar (0)46Top 50India
Kuvardin Evgeniy (0)47Top 50Russia
PZOL (0)48Top 50Hungary
Michal P. (0)49Top 50Poland
Michal Cvan (0)50Top 50Slovakia
Mehrab (0)51CorrectnessUnited Kingdom
Dan Kiser (0)106CorrectnessUnited States

Logic Championship - Tuesday, February 24, 10:00 UTC

The following players will be invited to participate in the 2014 championship. The number in parentheses after their names are the number of championships in which they have already participated. See the FAQ for an explanation of the three ways a player can qualify for the championship. And congratulations to all listed below on their accomplishment and best of luck in the upcoming competition!

Name Rank Qualification Country
Jerry Bull (1)1Top 50United States
mentzel.iudith (1)2Top 50Israel
Köteles Zsolt (0)3Top 50Hungary
Stelios Vlasopoulos (1)4Top 50Belgium
Chad Lee (1)5Top 50United States
Viacheslav Stepanov (1)6Top 50Russia
AndreyBerliner (0)7Top 50Ukraine
Milibor Jovanovic (1)8Top 50Serbia
Niels Hecker (1)9Top 50Germany
Elic (1)10Top 50Belarus
Kanellos (1)11Top 50Greece
Naresh Kumar (1)12Top 50India
Peter Chenery (1)13Top 50United Kingdom
Rich Dellheim (1)14Top 50United States
Sandra99 (1)15Top 50Italy
Mehrab (1)16Top 50United Kingdom
james su (1)17Top 50Canada
gobruins (1)18Top 50United States
katuinbouter (1)19Top 50Netherlands
Kuvardin Evgeniy (0)20Top 50Russia
Christoph Hillinger (1)21Top 50Austria
mark kavalaris (0)22Top 50United States
Alex Stirbu (0)23Top 50Romania
Pavel Zeman (0)24Top 50Czech Republic
Rytis Budreika (1)25Top 50Lithuania
umir (1)26Top 50Italy
Margit Biróné Sonkoly (0)27Top 50Hungary
Sean Molloy (1)28Top 50United States
craig.mcfarlane (0)29Top 50Norway
Pavel Vorontsov (1)30Top 50Russia
MarkM. (1)31Top 50Germany
NickL (0)32Top 50United Kingdom
Eric Levin (0)33Top 50United States
Yuan Tschang (1)34Top 50United States
Zoran Krekic (0)35Top 50Croatia
Dipendra Thapa (0)36Top 50India
JasonC (1)37Top 50United Kingdom
danad (1)38Top 50Czech Republic
tommyTT (0)39Top 50Poland
Jason H (1)40Top 50United States
Henry Abeska (0)41Top 50Czech Republic
Vijay Mahawar (1)42Top 50India
Cristinel Boboc (1)43Top 50Romania
kias (0)44Top 50Czech Republic
Telmoc (0)45Top 50Portugal
Krzysztof Helbin (0)46Top 50Poland
Justin Cave (1)47Top 50United States
Oleksiy Varchyn (0)48Top 50Norway
Cor van Berkel (0)49Top 50Netherlands
Hamid Talebian (0)50Top 50Netherlands
Jennifer Schiltz (0)51CorrectnessUnited States
Dan Voiculet (0)63CorrectnessRomania

PL/SQL Championship - Thursday, February 26, 10:00 UTC

The following players will be invited to participate in the 2014 championship for the PL/SQL Challenge.

The number in parentheses after their names are the number of championships in which they have already participated. Wait a minute, they are all 0s. Well, we've done plenty of championships for PL/SQL, but they were for the daily quiz. So this is the first for the weekly quizzes.

See the FAQ for an explanation of the three ways a player can qualify for the championship. And congratulations to all listed below on their accomplishment and best of luck in the upcoming competition!

Name Rank Qualification Country
swart260 (0)1Top 50Netherlands
Rakesh Dadhich (0)2Top 50India
Stelios Vlasopoulos (0)3Top 50Belgium
Viacheslav Stepanov (0)4Top 50Russia
mentzel.iudith (0)5Top 50Israel
Rytis Budreika (0)6Top 50Lithuania
Niels Hecker (0)7Top 50Germany
Siim Kask (0)8Top 50Estonia
Milibor Jovanovic (0)9Top 50Serbia
Ivan Blanarik (0)10Top 50Slovakia
Jerry Bull (0)11Top 50United States
Krzysztof Helbin (0)12Top 50Poland
Maxim Borunov (0)13Top 50Russia
Kuvardin Evgeniy (0)14Top 50Russia
james su (0)15Top 50Canada
Chad Lee (0)16Top 50United States
Sherry (0)17Top 50Czech Republic
Pavel Noga (0)18Top 50Czech Republic
Leszek Grudzień (0)19Top 50Poland
Yuan Tschang (0)20Top 50United States
gobruins (0)21Top 50United States
Ravshan Abbasov (0)22Top 50Uzbekistan
VictorD (0)23Top 50Russia
Oleksiy Varchyn (0)24Top 50Norway
Chase Mei (0)25Top 50Canada
Justin Cave (0)26Top 50United States
Marcus Matzberger (0)27Top 50Germany
Karel Prech (0)28Top 50Czech Republic
João Barreto (0)29Top 50Portugal
Jason H (0)30Top 50United States
Andrey Zaytsev (0)31Top 50Russia
Joaquin Gonzalez (0)32Top 50Spain
Michal Cvan (0)33Top 50Slovakia
Jeroen Rutte (0)34Top 50Netherlands
dmitrysk (0)35Top 50Russia
Manfred Kleander (0)36Top 50Austria
Patrick Barel (0)37Top 50Netherlands
Christoph Hillinger (0)38Top 50Austria
Sean Molloy (0)39Top 50United States
Alex Stirbu (0)40Top 50Romania
_tiki_4_ (0)41Top 50Germany
Pavel Vorontsov (0)42Top 50Russia
Anna Onishchuk (0)43Top 50Ireland
Margit Biróné Sonkoly (0)44Top 50Hungary
Livio Curzola (0)45Top 50Luxembourg
Henry Abeska (0)46Top 50Czech Republic
Ingimundur Gudmundsson (0)47Top 50Norway
Martin_Scholz_Berlin_Berlin (0)48Top 50Germany
tonyC (0)49Top 50United Kingdom
Paolo Zaffaroni (0)50Top 50Italy