ACM ICPC World Finals preliminary results
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ACM ICPC World Finals preliminary results
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Re: ACM ICPC World Finals preliminary results
#2The scoring system is a bit unfair these days. Taiwan and Kiev solved 6 problems each, got the gold. Ural State solved 6 problems, got nothing.
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#3The scoring system is a bit unfair these days. Taiwan and Kiev solved 6 problems each, got the gold. Ural State solved 6 problems, got nothing.
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#4My school = honorable mention :-(
And this is completely unrelated, but is anyone else annoyed at the choice of languages. Only C++ and Java... sigh.
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#5Well at least my school won North America.
Re: ACM ICPC World Finals preliminary results
#6The scoring system is a bit unfair these days. Taiwan and Kiev solved 6 problems each, got the gold. Ural State solved 6 problems, got nothing.
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#7The scoring system is a bit unfair these days. Taiwan and Kiev solved 6 problems each, got the gold. Ural State solved 6 problems, got nothing.
What do you mean? That's what the tiebreaker is for. Problem writing is hard, especially if you're trying to distinguish between very close competitors.
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#9I find that the largest problem about this competition is that the people who can actually do this probably have no motivation to compete.
We all have jobs, lives, and cool stuff to hack on in languages we actually like using.
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#10I find that the largest problem about this competition is that the people who can actually do this probably have no motivation to compete. We all have jobs, lives, and cool stuff to hack on in languages we actually like using.
I don't know if that's a good excuse because most of the competitors are students.
But yeah, programming competitions are not a high priority for US universities.