Mathematical Competition in Modeling

Well the result of the COMAP International Math Competition in Modeling came out yesterday and I would like to congratulate all the winners as well as everyone who participated.  While my team was highly disfunctional and I ended up putting the most time into the competition by myself we managed to grab an honorable mention.  I guess the judges saw some merit in our sudoku generation algorithm which backtraced from the final solution using the chaining algorthim.  All in all, I see it as a learning  experience and we were not entirely unsuccessful.  However I am sure that we will not compete again together as a team.  Now that we know what goes into it we can form more harmonious teams for future competition.  Seeing as I am a freshman right now I have 3 more years.  Anyway it was fun, lost a lot of sleep, didnt get to look at the stars, but I learned a hell of a lot and I am stronger because of it.

Complete results