{"id":24314,"date":"2023-02-19T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=24314"},"modified":"2023-02-19T12:43:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:43:24","slug":"sunday-update-about-world-sudoku-and-puzzle-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmpuzzles.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/sunday-update-about-world-sudoku-and-puzzle-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Update about World Sudoku and Puzzle Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that Grandmaster Puzzles will be organizing the puzzles for the next World Sudoku and Puzzle Championships. This news is now confirmed yesterday following a successful vote of the general assembly of the World Puzzle Federation. The next WSPC event will be held October 15-22 in Toronto, Canada. Thomas Snyder and Serkan Y\u00fcrekli will be coordinating the puzzles, with a much larger team from Canada and the US working together on all the other details. <\/p>\n<p>Organizing the world championships will be a big project for us in 2023, and we are considering how &#8220;competitions&#8221; and &#8220;rankings&#8221; can be a larger theme for our new content on the website and YouTube this year. Please keep on the watch for more news and updates, and do reach out to us if you are interested in contributing to the WSPC (particularly North American authors).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this exciting news, we have our posted our sixth episode in our Smashing the Sudoku series, looking back at our launch puzzle set from 2013:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rise (and Fall?) of Grandmaster Puzzles\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5yXnWr-640A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that Grandmaster Puzzles will be organizing the puzzles for the next World Sudoku and Puzzle Championships. 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