Comments on: Alfonso is the Winner!

By: Lindsay Coutinho

Lindsay Coutinho — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:57:15 +0000

The Vines Contest Hall of Fame is now up! Learn more about the winners here: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/contest/contests/34/winners .

By: Francesco

Francesco — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:50:50 +0000

Thank you Magnus S,

I knew in this other kind of ranking I would have gained some positions… :-)

see you on the next contest

By: Magnus S

Magnus S — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:18:27 +0000

That’s a nice one as well, Amitabh. The results this time would have been:

Highest No. of 1st places:
1= Alex P. (18)
1= Alfonso Nieto-Castanon (18)
3 Abhisek Ukil (12)

Highest No. of 1st places in daylight;
1 Alex P. (18)
2 Abhisek Ukil (12)
3 Sergey Y. (11)

I have also got the ranking as suggested by Francesco, but it would possibly be a bit long for this comment… 97 unique participants. The top ten are:
Alfonso Nieto-Castanon (Place of the best submission: 1)
Nicholas Howe (6)
Magnus S (8)
Abhisek Ukil (9)
Dimitris Kaliakmanis (10)
Yitzchak (12)
Fel (13)
Michael C. (14)
Alan Chalker (17)
the cyclist (20)

The only Francesco in that ranking comes in at 56th place with the best submission on place 1074.

Does anybody else want to know her/his place in the player ranking?

By: Amitabh

Amitabh — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:43:04 +0000

Thanks to the contest team. Had a great time and congratulations to all the players. Like always I’ve yet again learned a few new things.

I agree with Magnus and his suggestions. Another one that comes to mind is the ‘highest no. of 1st place’ prize. That would be a carrot many tweakers will seek and can be easily implemented using the All the Leaders stats.

Also like there is a ‘invite your friend’ page for Matlab web seminars, it would be nice to have one for the contest as well.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:00:15 +0000

Wonderfull Contest!
Congratulations to Alfonso and other best players!

One thing to Matlab Contest GREAT Team:

we have the submissions classification: 1 rank for each submission,

is it possible to have also a player classification?

i.e. 1 rank = 1 player (only the best submission of this player)

By: Magnus S

Magnus S — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:12:15 +0000

Once again, a very nice and entertaining contest. Congratulations to Alfonso and Nicholas for having really nice algorithmic improvements in the end.

Looking at the statistics page, the number of submissions is quite low during daylight (except for the last 15 minutes, of course). Maybe another prize for ‘Most hours lead’ or ‘Most hours lead during daylight’ would be a possibility to encourage more activity in daylight.

Alfonso would have won ‘Most hours lead’ as well this time with 29:16 (hh:mm) ahead of Alex P. (26:41) and Nicholas Howe (20:06).
Sergey Y would have won ‘Most hours lead during daylight’ with 17:18 with Michael Völker second at 15:07 and myself third at 12:36.