Final Standings

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CONGRATULATIONS TO 

	William Burley and Arthur Goldstein for "driveL"

		  WINNER OF THE RESET POTM !!!!

Andre' Wilhelmus wins the Tournament of Champions crown
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Links for your pleasure:

The Consolation Prizes

Summary of All Entries as Supplied by Authors

Pointers to The Code of Selected Entries

The list of input used for the finals run

Short version of the problem.

Long version of the problem.

Back to the list of problems.

Here's the results of the final run:

				Mon Dec  2 16:34:38 EST 1996
WEEK 11				131 have entered
				385 have asked for details.
				1074 are on the mailing list!

WE HAVE A WINNER ... driveL from William Burley and Arthur Goldstein wins
this month's POTM with the shortest (and one of the quickest) entries.  The
table below shows the code length (in characters) and the time (in hundredths
of seconds) for all the entries.   If you sent an entry, please take a few
moments to fill out the form I sent earlier ... sharing your approach and
techniques is a big part of the POTM.  Congratulations also to Andre'
Wilhelmus who continues his reign as Tournament Of Champions winner.
=Fred

(Since it really didn't matter for the top spot, I didn't use the "earliest"
  entry rule to resolve other positions.  So Giorgio, Alex, and Alexey
  can all be considered the official "runners-up")

             ENTRY    MILES  SCORE2= CHAR + HSEC Programmer
      ------------  -------- ------  ----   ---- -------------------
            driveL   1879997   274 =  232 +   42 W.Burley A.Goldstein
          POTM9609   1879997   307 =  253 +   54 Giorgio DiFalco
           Spinner   1879997   309 =  268 +   41 Alex Popiel
        potm_miles   1879997   312 =  263 +   49 Alexey Zhelvis
          Mercedes   1879997   330 =  261 +   69 Harm Jetten
      SportyShorty   1879997   339 =  308 +   31 John Williams
        GreenGiant   1879997   340 =  278 +   62 Hal Burch
              forD   1879997   343 =  284 +   59 George Papoutsis
           14theRd   1879997   349 =  291 +   58 Happy Hacker
          metritis   1879997   349 =  304 +   45 Apostolis Dimitromanolakis

        big-n-slow   1879997   362 =  287 +   75 Vladimir Schipunov
         QuaSimOdo   1879997   389 =  358 +   31 Chris Hendrie
             reset   1879997   404 =  361 +   43 Chris Call
         brauciens   1879997   412 =  344 +   68 Krists Boitmanis
    too_many_miles   1879997   413 =  324 +   89 Kurt VandenBranden
        odomontade   1879997   421 =  300 +  121 D.McIlroy S.Dorward
     The_first_try   1879997   438 =  394 +   44 Rolandas Gricius
  eyes-on-the-road   1879997   443 =  331 +  112 Clive Dawson
          JustOnce   1879997   475 =  439 +   36 Bob Lied
          rollback   1879997   475 =  325 +  150 Warren Montgomery
           odododo   1879997   501 =  412 +   89 Bob Ashenfelter
          outofgas   1879997   508 =  331 +  177 Matthias Ruhl
              dodo   1879997   556 =  510 +   46 Jeroen Moelands
      Close_Enough   1879997   557 =  354 +  203 Vance Heron
            Hoovey   1879997   562 =  312 +  250 A.Halverson J.Halverson
            gdrula   1879997   597 =  471 +  126 Catalin Drula
          shortcut   1879997   614 =  327 +  287 Jan Venema
            turtle   1879997   659 =  392 +  267 Didier Barzin
              odor   1879997   667 =  313 +  354 Edwin Berlin
       What_A_Trip   1879997   668 =  429 +  239 Robert Morrison
          bitsrock   1879997   669 =  551 +  118 Pete Demoreuille
           Porsche   1879997   677 =  576 +  101 Michael Strauch
              vanb   1879997   678 =  384 +  294 David Van_Brackle
         thewinner   1879997   694 =  403 +  291 Ravi Nemlekar
           1000000   1879997   727 =  561 +  166 David Wales
             trees   1879997   730 =  436 +  294 Dave Lynch
         best_name   1879997   738 =  615 +  123 David Roe
              Jack   1879997   789 =  477 +  312 Justin Legakis
     kindly.accept   1879997   795 =  639 +  156 P.Harode P.Patwardhan
               CAR   1879997   804 =  577 +  227 Davor Slamnig
                 R   1879997   826 =  639 +  187 Zelko Zahtila
             shlem   1879997   829 =  257 +  572 Leonid Shikhmatov
          bitdrive   1879997   857 =  476 +  381 Russ Cox
           cruzin2   1879997   934 =  687 +  247 Don Shugard
           grumble   1879997   938 =  701 +  237 Robert Bonomi
             Mach5   1879997   942 =  564 +  378 Carleton Garrison
        Underworld   1879997   943 =  463 +  480 Douglas Zongker
          odomagic   1879997   952 =  685 +  267 Kevin Ryan
      counterSTEER   1879997   958 =  377 +  581 Brace Stout
             blush   1879997   967 =  850 +  117 Hans vanderWal
               ken   1879997   973 =  617 +  356 Ken Thompson
   LongStrangeTrip   1879997   979 =  474 +  505 Jeff Stone
          AllClear   1879997  1016 =  344 +  672 Byon Garrabrant
              jura   1879997  1034 =  637 +  397 George Choolinin
         Beethoven   1879997  1081 =  590 +  491 Stu Rowland
        odofuscato   1879997  1164 =  536 +  628 Andreas Eisele
           roll-em   1879997  1171 =  517 +  654 Martin Kealey
              dawn   1879997  1208 =  643 +  565 Kim-hang Chung
Odie_the_wonder_button ..997  1256 =  794 +  462 Glenn Larratt
        Excuse_Me!   1879997  1281 = 1019 +  262 Krishna Tripathi
              tono   1879997  1302 =  307 +  995 Antonio Esguevillas
       delphi.guys   1879997  1307 =  750 +  557 K.Symeonidis J.Tsoukalidis
     hope.it.works   1879997  1328 =  703 +  625 John_Zer0 InfraRED
             aleph   1879997  1353 =  919 +  434 Arie Tzvieli
           another   1879997  1422 =  609 +  813 Mark Huizer
            matzke   1879997  1473 =  641 +  832 Robb Matzke
      road_warrior   1879997  1503 =  888 +  615 Jim Curran
       Kicks_On_66   1879997  1530 =  882 +  648 Scott Everett
              ugly   1879997  1549 = 1141 +  408 Paul Nelson
         razorback   1879997  1670 =  591 + 1079 Mike Wilder
       watsoncolin   1879997  1698 = 1005 +  693 Colin Watson
     slow_but_long   1879997  1865 =  336 + 1529 Steven vanEnk
           yuguang   1879997  1989 = 1505 +  484 Yuguang Wu
    DashBored-Lite   1879997  2198 =  728 + 1470 John McMillan
          odoracle   1879997  2233 = 1184 + 1049 Ljupco Taseski
      heres_a_shot   1879997  2303 = 1860 +  443 Raymond Cook
              HAMI   1879997  2393 = 1819 +  574 M.Migdol S.Haller
       Miles_Ahead   1879997  2523 = 1328 + 1195 Mark Dettinger
          triptrot   1879997  2640 =  614 + 2026 C. Spencer
   HowMuchFurther?   1879997  2659 = 1318 + 1341 Corey Anderson
   DrivingMissPerl   1879997  3077 =  306 + 2771 Andrew Robinson
      Telecommuter   1879997  3326 = 1205 + 2121 Emerald Chung
         The_Wheel   1879997  3590 = 2912 +  678 Brian Schleaden
           freerun   1879997  3658 = 2140 + 1518 Matthew Haley
            Rallye   1879997  4038 = 3159 +  879 Kroum Savadjiev
      herfstversie   1879997  4704 = 3694 + 1010 Carl in_'t_Veld
            rsrini   1879997  6052 =  562 + 5490 Ramkumar Srinivasan
   push_the_button   1879997  6080 = 3490 + 2590 Jerry Ryan
      kyeoto_im_tr   1879997  6261 = 1695 + 4566 Salman Nawaz
             miano   1879997  7828 = 2384 + 5444 John Miano
           Reload!   1879997  8966 =  925 + 8041 Phil Darnowsky
        roadrunner   1879997 10238 =  436 + 9802 Ramon Clout
       singularity   1879997 11766 = 2982 + 8784 Dave Krofssik
            frsrst   1879997 13709 =  673 +13036 Fred Stearns
                ko   1879997 14160 = 1062 +13098 Karen Karp
              potm   1879997 21822 =  974 +20848 Vishal Awasthi
             guess   1879997 83271 =  549 +82722 Matt Nelson
           AWKward   1879997 136791=  729+136062 Ken Kopecky
	   ================================================
          roadtrip   1880006   580 =  400 +  180 Dave Spears
          odometer   1904885   651 =  513 +  138 David Korn
            vvidya   1904885   937 =  829 +  108 Vidya Velgapudi
         mooshikan   1904885  2587 =  963 + 1624 Padma Vellanki
          NotSoHot   1904885  3088 = 1303 + 1785 David Rysdam
        CheeseHead   1904885  4317 = 1511 + 2806 Mike Buchmann
              yogi   1904885 148073= 8961+139112 Yogesh Randad
        my.program   1907706  1038 =  776 +  262 Fan Xiaobo
               CCC   1931841  2546 = 1417 + 1129 Claudio Cabaleiro
    Skys.the.limit   1933065 50243 = 1760 +48483 Linda Licari
           waldacj   1947116 74506 = 3658 +70848 Jesse Waldack
       NumberAngel   1987198   570 =  453 +  117 Robert Ang
    OnTheRoadAgain   2461911  1078 =  432 +  646 Joe Eccles
            balaji   2554495  2241 = 1136 + 1105 Balaji Polimera
             Frodo   6274359   751 =  471 +  280 Austin Green
          ODOSNAIL   6927761 35454 = 1226 +34228 Markus Sabadello
	   ================================================
               odo 999999999   897 =  655 +  242 Matthew Cross
     AreWeThereYet 999999999   924 =  395 +  529 Steven Burnap
        Crazy_Odos 999999999  1769 = 1385 +  384 Wim Decroix
           bcrosby 999999999  1880 = 1880 +    0 Brandon Crosby
          POSSIBLE 999999999  2257 =  395 + 1862 Gerry Scheetz
             tclau 999999999  2396 = 2385 +   11 Claudiu Tatar
           indy499 999999999  7737 = 7322 +  415 Ram Ramachandran
      SimplyMinded 999999999 181146= 1001+180145 Jason Grosland
             steer 999999999 181714= 1585+180129 Mark Studebaker
       FastCounter 999999999 182342= 2004+180338 Jonathan Nicolas
       ResetEntry1 999999999 183579= 2390+181189 Guy Oliver
         Giraffe96 999999999 184323= 3141+181182 Gopalan Balaji


Thanks for your support and participation .... participants - please 
 send in your program descriptions so I can circulate them to all!

 =Fred


======== And now ... the Tournament of Champions for past POTM winners
========  (since past winners cannot win again, they compete separately!)

             ENTRY    MILES  SCORE2= CHAR + HSEC Programmer
      ------------  -------- ------  ----   ---- -------------------
     alphabet_soup   1879997   316 =  240 +   76 =Andre' Wilhelmus
           fourfor   1879997   378 =  264 +  114 =Julius Collins
         TheFinger   1879997   402 =  314 +   88 =Neil Weinstock
            tracks   1879997   454 =  372 +   82 =Franz Korntner
        Seed_Racer   1879997   898 =  297 +  601 =Chad Hurritz