It's not clear from this picture if Tyler Hinman knows that the two grids on either side of him have errors.
But he probably already knew that he is the luckiest son of a bitch on the face of the earth. Tyler Hinman, for the fifth straight time ACPT champ, and again at the expense of faster mistake-makers. I guess slow and steady does win the race!
Both Trip Payne and Francis Heaney made the same exact error on their grids. What made this extremely nailbiting was that Tyler was stuck on a word at lower right, and finally broke through and solved it with maybe 1:30 left to go in the 20:00 puzzling period.
Pictures from the awards banquet are now up and you can check www.crosswordtournament.com for all the rest of the standings.
As for us, I finished a very disappointing 66th. (Disappointing considering I could have done much better, but it still ties my best finish ever.) Bob finished 24th. Oh well, maybe next year.
2 comments:
Bravo, Tyler!
PUZZLE BROTHERS, thank you so much for this blog. It was wonerful to be able to follow the ACPT real time.
I changed the title of this post. The "basic" truth is that ALL ALONE was a more fitting title.
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