Edith Puzzles the World

At 9AM (3AM Eastern), Edith teams up with Nick, Elizabeth, and Darya to compete in the first round of Teams competition!

How’s it work?

For the Teams First Round, each team will receive the four 1000 piece puzzles and have one minute to chose which two of these puzzles to complete. They then must complete one puzzle, put it away entirely, and then complete the second puzzle within a 3 hour time limit. The order of the puzzles is up to them.

What’s at stake?

This time NEED for Speed needs to be in the top 25 times of their round to advance to the Teams Finals on Sunday. This is a bit of a steep cutoff, but it looks like there are only 65 or so teams in each first round heat.

How to watch

Here’s the Livestream on YouTube, which will also be watchable after the event is over. Edith’s team will be at table 10.

How did Edith do?

Here’s the results page, which will probably take a while to be fully updated and accurate. It may crash as too many people are trying to view it so please be patient. Also remember that rankings will take a while to be finalized as times continue to be entered, and not necessarily in the order they finished. We’ll know times are final and official when puzzlers who qualified have a flashing “Q” next to them.

Who’s her competition?

Puzzle Q’West from France and Swedish Piece by Piece from Sweden both made it to the finals last year and should put up a good show again. Lynpuslerne from Denmark and Ik Hoor Een Stukje Vallen from the Netherlands have some very strong puzzlers and should do very well. But I can guarantee the cameras will be trained on the Euro Jigsaw Jacks (EJJ) Squad, a supergroup of top European puzzlers Wiktor, Kathi, Chiara, and Hanna. These are regulars on the online European Jigsaw Jam competitions, thus the team name, but they are also definitely four of the fastest puzzlers here this year and one of the top contenders to win the Teams division.