Logic Reigns in the Oracle Dev Gym Logic Championship

Logic is at the very heart of programming, so we complement our quizzes on SQL, PL/SQL and so on with a weekly Logic tournament. And then at the end of the year, the top 50 ranked players qualify for our annual championship.

The following players will be invited to participate in the Logic Annual Championship for 2018, currently scheduled to take place on 19 February.

The number in parentheses after their names are the number of championships in which they have already participated.

Congratulations to all listed below on their accomplishment and best of luck in the upcoming competition!

Name	Rank
Stelios Vlasopoulos (5)	1
Pavel Zeman (4)	2
mentzel.iudith (5)	3
Ludovic Szewczyk (1)	4
James Su (5)	5
Chad Lee (5)	6
Tony Winn (3)	7
Rytis Budreika (5)	8
ted (5)	9
Kanellos (4)	10
Cor van Berkel (4)	11
Köteles Zsolt (4)	12
Vijay Mahawar (5)	13
RalfK (4)	14
pjas (1)	15
Mike Tessier (3)	16
seanm95 (5)	17
NickL (4)	18
Michal P. (1)	19
Eric Levin (4)	20
Sandra99 (5)	21
Mehrab (5)	22
JasonC (5)	23
Talebian (4)	24
NielsHecker (5)	25
richdellheim (5)	26
Sartograph (3)	27
tonyC (4)	28
Kias (2)	29
craig.mcfarlane (4)	30
umir (5)	31
li_bao (3)	32
Vyacheslav Stepanov (5)	33
Stanislovas (2)	34
msonkoly (3)	35
Patel Sanjay (1)	36
mcelaya (3)	37
whab@tele2.at (3)	38
MarkusId (0)	39
saddaymay (2)	40
gabt (0)	41
Alexuboo (1)	42
Vladimir13 (3)	43
JustinCave (5)	44
TZ (3)	45
Stephan (0)	46
Dan Kiser (4)	47
jamesravid (0)	48
Arūnas Antanaitis (3)	49
Henry_A (1)	50

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