The Fourth Minnesota Crossword Tournament

The Fourth Minnesota Crossword Tournament was held at the historic Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul on June, 14, 2015. 

 

The tournament website has not released the final scores yet. The winner (Expert) is Carl Voss. Andrew Ries (very very talented constructor) finished second and Mike Weepie finished third. (Updated: Please click here for final scores.)

Boomer and I stayed over 2 hours. Here are some photos we took.

Local tournament constructors: : C.C., Tom Pepper, George Barany, Victor Barocas, Michael David & David Liben-Nowell. Missing David Hanson (Rosebud).

  

Jon Berman, Johanna Fenimore, Don Gagliardo, Andrea Carla Michael & Amy Reynaldo (Orange) all live outside Minnesota and could not make the trip. Their names & pictures are all shown in this big screen before the tournament.

 

Thanks for the picture, Chase Maxwell

  

A few words from Liz Boyd (The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library) before the tournament.

Constructor is introduced before each puzzle. Here is Tom Pepper.

 

Here is George Barany.

 

Solving has started.

Constructors are mingling in the back. 

 Victor Barocas, David Liben-Nowell & Michael David

  C.C. & George Barany

    Victor Barocas & George Barany

 Victor Barocas, David Liben-Nowell & Michael David

 Michael David, David Liben-Nowell & Victor Barocas

 Michael David & Tom Pepper

 

Special thanks to Liz Boyd & Ann McKinnon of the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library for their hard work running this annual event.

Also a big "Thank you" to Victor Barocas for making our puzzles tournament-ready. Victor was heavily involved in every step of the puzzle-making, from the theme set development to the final clues. While we were enjoying the Memorial Day weekend, Victor was busy editing and converting the puzzles.

Thanks also to our constructors. It was a privilege working with you for this event. 

Thanks to all the tournament sponsors & solvers also. You made this possible.