IMO 2011: co-ordination, day two
Friday, July 22, 2011 4:39Following co-ordination today the final scores for the 2011 IMO team are: James Allen, 27; Malcolm Granville, 17; Benedict Morrissey, 13; Arun Shanmuganathan, 22; Tom Yan, 14; Robert Zhang, 21. Our total score is 114 – one point behind the Netherlands, and two behind Australia – and each student has at least one perfect seven. We are now extremely interested in all three medal boundaries, which will be set at the final jury meeting, at 9am tomorrow.
Our two major co-ordinations today went extremely smoothly – in fact our meeting for problem 2 was over before it was even scheduled to begin! We went in a couple of minutes early, and made our proposal for the six scores; the co-ordinators had exactly the same scores in mind, for the same reasons, and we were out the door before the scheduled meeting time of 2:30. The meeting for problem 1 was not quite as quick, but just as smooth, and we got an unexpected bonus. Both we and the co-ordinators proposed 3 for one script, but it turned out that we had different third points in mind, and so the 3 became a 4. However, we were not so lucky with problems 5 and 6, and missed out on two points we’d hoped to gain. One of these, on problem 5, was extremely disappointing.
The team are currently on a field trip to the Hague; we’ve sent them the results by text, but look forward to congratulating them in person when they get back. Wish us luck for the meeting tomorrow!
Heather says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 5:26 am
What a great set of scores! Congratulations to all — I hope things turn out well tomorrow.
Shan says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 7:02 am
Well Done Team! Thanks Chris and Illya for your hard work. Have fun and enjoy the rest of your trip!
Michael Albert says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 8:00 am
Wow! What a great set of scores, congratulations to all involved and best of luck with the medal boundaries!
Qing Zhang says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 9:17 am
Wonderful result. Congratulations to New Zealand team. Well done!
Lesley Tuffley says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 9:37 am
Congratulations to everyone. Great scores! Wishing you heaps of good luck for the medal allocation.
Max J. Allen says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 10:23 am
Congratulations ! Fantastic scores ! Thanks to Chris, Ilya and Stephen for the hard work !
Wendy Wang says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 10:56 am
Great socres! Congratulations to NZ team! Can’t wait to see good news tomorrow.
Bingfang Huan says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 11:45 am
Congrats to the New Zealand Team! Quite an achievement indeed…
James, all your friends in the States are so proud of you!
BC says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Amazing results! Congratulations to everyone, you did great again
Stephen Mackereth says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Well done guys, awesome results!! How sadly ungeometrical it was this year hmm?
Ian Seong says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 3:09 pm
Problem 2 was actually a combinatorics question I heard… and the only geometry problem was Problem 6
Hao says:
July 22nd, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Congratulations, a lot of hard effort! All the best for the medals!
James Wang says:
July 23rd, 2011 at 3:21 am
Congrats to NZ team and their family!
Helen Pang says:
July 23rd, 2011 at 5:58 am
Congrats, the NZ team!!! James is amazing. He is getting tougher and tougher from his experience. He lets us very proud again and again.