Nice! I guess you must know Bruce Merry. Once, when practicing, I kept on hitting my head on a problem. On the spur of the moment, I decided to fire off an email to Bruce (given his track record, I was like "if anyone can figure this out, he can"). I was shocked (and very pleased) to get a reply a few days later outlining his thought process and how he went around solving the problem.
I used to know the ZA team leaders as well (after competing, I was a team leader for several more years).
Yes, I do indeed know Bruce. He won the national Maths and Computer olympiads in my final year of school even though he was 4 grades below me and had just started high school. :-D
I used to know the ZA team leaders as well (after competing, I was a team leader for several more years).