Challenge 2008

1. Challenge 2008 Results
2. Challenge in Figures
3. Local Prizes
4. The Challenge Explained
5. The Challenge
6. Challenge Help
7. Cost Calculation
8. Challenge Rules

Thank you to everyone who took part in this year’s Challenge. It was not an easy problem to solve this time, with a new simulation being released on the day of the Challenge, but that did not put people off! Well done to those of you who achieved a pass in any of the three sections, and congratulations to those 95 teams who succeeded in passing the whole challenge.

We are pleased to announce the two winning teams of the steeluniversity.org Challenge 2008. Many congratulations to both teams.

	Industry Winner	University Winner
Overall position	1	13
Team members	Yin Lu, Ge Hua, Chen Cen	Nabil Marouf, Raphael Chosson, Pierre Sallot
Affiliation	Baosteel	École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne
Country	China	France
Status	Company employee	Student
Total cost for 3 order items	$598,702	$611,880

Results of Top 30 Teams

Here is a listing of the results of the top 30 teams that completed all three order items. The names of the team members for the top ten entries are provided. We also show the total number of completed attempts at the simulation for each team. These do not include attempts that have not been completed (e.g. due to plate collisions, and plate dimensions exceeding the turn and runout limitations).