Unofficial Times cryptic RTC contest No. 2 – results

In a week when even some of the most hardened competitors made mistakes, Jason kept his head to win the mini-championship despite spending close to half of the total time on one puzzle. the_od was the quickest of the rest and wins the star.  Competition for the spoon was fairly strong, with both tony_sever and talbinho having really bad weeks.  Tony takes it by a nose, as his two mistakes were expensive ones.

In the RTC table, good times for the five puzzles I completed correctly were just enough for me to pinch top place by a single point from Jason.

For the second week in a row, no mistake was made by more than one competitor. Correction: On Wednesday, 16D SIXPENCE and 27A ENDWAYS caught out Richard Grafen and talbinho, and on Friday, 4D CRATCHIT was missed by Linxit and talbinho.

Mini-championship

Position	Name	Time for 6 puzzles	Number of Errors
1	Jason J	82:01	0
2	the_od	95:40	0
3	dhogg	104:49	0
4	Chris Peake	180:10	0
5	Sabine	192:12	0
6	foggyweb	292:38	0
7	Peter Biddlecombe	64:59	1
8	linxit	86:15	1
9	tony_sever	61:46	2
10	Richard Grafen	97:59	2
11	talbinho	104:35	7

RTC table

Position	Name	Points (maximum:72)
1	Peter Biddlecombe	54
2	Jason J	53
3	Richard Grafen	42
4	dhogg	40
5	Chris Peake	39
6=	tony_sever	38
6=	the_od	38
8	linxit	35
9	fgbp	30
10	Sabine	24
11	talbinho	23
12	foggyweb	18

Fastest for each puzzle:
Saturday/Monday – talbinho 7:47, 8:56 Tuesday Jason J 6:24, Wednesday tony_sever 14:20, Thursday/Friday Peter Biddlecombe 5:10, 5:44

Star: the_od
Spoon: tony_sever
(both awarded for good/bad performance relative to expectations)

Raw scores:
Peter Biddlecombe, 00:09:03, 00:12:35, 00:06:41, 00:25:46, 00:05:10, 00:05:44, 1 – 23660/1A, 64:59
fgbp, 00:06:15, 00:13:08, 00:09:41, X, X, X  
the_od, 00:11:21, 00:18:05, 00:17:46, 00:24:02, 00:10:26, 00:14:00; 95:40
talbinho, 00:07:47, 00:08:56, 00:13:36, 00:50:00, 00:05:36, 00:18:40, 7, 23661/18dn 23662/27ac 16dn 24dn 23663/4dn 23664/13ac 4dn, (total 104:35)
Jason J, 00:10:00, 00:13:40, 00:06:24, 00:36:34, 00:06:33, 00:08:50
foggyweb, 00:45:15, 00:33:40, 00:41:26, 01:13:35, 01:03:30, 35:12 
dhogg, 00:26:26, 00:17:15, 00:22:12, 00:19:03, 00:10:00, 00:09:53, 0, 104:49
linxit, 00:14:08, 00:17:30, 00:11:24, 00:17:52, 00:12:03, 00:13:18, 1, 23663/4D
Sabine, 00:11:22, 00:24:13, 00:09:56, 00:50:42, 00:11:38, 00:24:21, 0, 132:12
Chris Peake, 00:13:54, 00:10:45, 00:21:50, 00:50:19, 00:09:59, 00:13:23
tony_sever, 00:10:02, 00:10:58, 00:07:49, 00:14:20, 00:09:57, 00:08:40, 2, 23660/16D  23662/5A
Richard Grafen, 00:09:42, 00:10:43, 00:17:21, 00:34:31, 00:14:38,00:11:04, Weds (not Thurs) /16D&27A