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Players for PL/SQL Challenge Championship for 2016

The following players will be invited to participate in the PL/SQL Challenge Championship for 2016, currently scheduled to take place on 23 March at 14:00 UTC.

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 Qualification Country
SteliosVlasopoulos (13) 1 Top 50 Belgium
siimkask (16) 2 Top 50 Estonia
mentzel.iudith (16) 3 Top 50 Israel
li_bao (4) 4 Top 50 Russia
James Su (11) 5 Top 50 Canada
ivan_blanarik (10) 6 Top 50 Slovakia
NielsHecker (17) 7 Top 50 Germany
Rakesh Dadhich (8) 8 Top 50 India
Karel_Prech (6) 9 Top 50 No Country Set
Marek Sobierajski (1) 10 Top 50 Poland
Rytis Budreika (4) 11 Top 50 Lithuania
_tiki_4_ (9) 12 Top 50 Germany
krzysioh (5) 13 Top 50 Poland
Chad Lee (13) 14 Top 50 United States
João Borges Barreto (6) 15 Top 50 Portugal
Andrey Zaytsev (5) 16 Top 50 Russia
coba (1) 17 Top 50 Netherlands
patch72 (3) 18 Top 50 Netherlands
Kuvardin Evgeniy (2) 19 Top 50 Russia
VictorD (3) 20 Top 50 Russia
Vyacheslav Stepanov (15) 21 Top 50 No Country Set
Maxim Borunov (3) 22 Top 50 Russia
tonyC (2) 23 Top 50 United Kingdom
JustinCave (13) 24 Top 50 United States
Chase (2) 25 Top 50 Canada
Joaquin_Gonzalez (10) 26 Top 50 Spain
Pavel_Noga (4) 27 Top 50 Czech Republic
seanm95 (3) 28 Top 50 United States
syukhno (0) 29 Top 50 Ukraine
tonywinn (5) 30 Top 50 Australia
JasonC (1) 31 Top 50 United Kingdom
Andrii Dorofeiev (0) 32 Top 50 Ukraine
Sachi (1) 33 Top 50 India
ratte2k4 (0) 34 Top 50 Germany
Alexey Ponomarenko (1) 35 Top 50 No Country Set
PZOL (2) 36 Top 50 Hungary
Otto Palenicek (0) 37 Top 50 Germany
Jānis Baiža (10) 38 Top 50 Latvia
JeroenR (10) 39 Top 50 Netherlands
Rimantas Adomauskas (3) 40 Top 50 Lithuania
Henry_A (3) 41 Top 50 Czech Republic
Sherry (2) 42 Top 50 Czech Republic
ted (0) 43 Top 50 United Kingdom
MarkM. (0) 44 Top 50 Germany
YuanT (11) 45 Top 50 United States
kbentley1 (1) 46 Top 50 United States
swesley_perth (2) 47 Top 50 Australia
Talebian (3) 48 Top 50 Netherlands
mcelaya (1) 49 Top 50 Spain
berkeso (0) 50 Top 50 Hungary

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