Sudoku Competition Champions!!

Omg!! Omg!! Omg!! Today was a really wonderful day for me! Guess what, I got first in the Sudoku Competition held in school this afternoon. It was really quite a shock. Shall tell you about it.
24 teams were competing in the Sudoku Competition. Each team consisted of two people. I was teamed with Elene from the same class. First came the preliminary round where we had to complete 5 Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty. Points were awarded for every correct number filled into a box(this makes the competition so much easier). Anyways,this had to be done in 20 minutes and only the top 10 teams will get into the finals. Well when I started doing the first two puzzles, I thought completing the puzzles in 20 minutes would be a piece of cake. Compared to the expert level puzzles that I had been doing prior to this competition, the ones given for the preliminary round was really easy. It was like every answer was staring at you in the face! Anyways, that was only for the first two puzzles. When I got to the third puzzle, it started getting a little more difficult. However, it still was not a puzzle I could not handle. However with the time constraint, it posed a certain level of difficulty.
Anyways.. with some luck I managed to get into the finals. Now I had some hope of getting the first place.
Puzzles for the finals were slightly more difficult. However, we still managed to complete at least two of the slightly easier ones and then started working on the others which were more difficult. The puzzles had to be completed in 15 mins by the way. By the 14 minute, we had already completed four out of the five puzzles. The fifth and last puzzle which we were working on was almost half completed. With seconds left, we decided to just spam random numbers into the boxes and hope to at least get some of them correct. Somehow, after handing in the puzzles, I felt quite certain that we were definitely claiming the champion already. Then the third and second places were announced, namely Group 25 and 11. The first place goes to... Group twenty... four!!! Yeahs... finally a first place for a Sudoku competition. I had taken part in two other such competitions before you know. Left empty handed on both occasions. Really estatic I tell you man! However, it was not all my effort though. Elene helped out a lot as well. Basically I started off the more difficult puzzles and Elene completed them. So it was really due to this wonderful team work that helped us win in the end. Really successful coordination.
Oh yeah.. the prize is a $50 CapitaLand voucher and two Sudoku books. Think we'll be using the voucher during the class chalet. It's a class effort anyways... shan't elaborate, hahas !