I participated in that for 5 years and loved it! My last year, we only had 4 participants (school of 800 students) and so I was on a team by myself. *grins* I solved 5 and had solutions for the other 2. If I hadn't made a stupid error, I would've had 7. *sighs* Ah, well. :-)

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