I'm laughing my ass off.
On Apr 22, 4:12 pm, "Cow Bay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> why haven't you guys submmited it days before the deadline even when it had
> not been very completed? if you had, at least the result would not have been
> so miserable.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cengiz Günay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Android Challenge" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:02 AM
> Subject: [android-challenge] Re: cannot submit!
>
> On Apr 21, 12:45 am, "Muthu Ramadoss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > There were submissions that went through at 11:57PM. There was atleast a
> > 5-10min window after 12, before the submissions were closed.
>
> > The exact reason for cengiz submission failure is known only to him.
> Cengiz,
> > what was the reason for you were not able to submit on time?
>
> Well, we couldn't get through for some reason. In one of those last
> browser reloads we lost the submission form. I guess it doesn't
> matter "why?' anymore because we are officially out of ADC at this
> point.
>
> The sorry part is that we were ready several hours before the deadline
> and were doing cosmetic changes to the code. Hielko is definitely
> right, we shouldn't have left the first submission to the last minute.
> You should always submit a ready version of your code and then you can
> still continue to make improvements to resubmit before closing time.
>
> On the one hand, we don't blame Google for the overload of their
> submission servers, because that is inevitable due to the unknown
> nature of such a competition and due to people always leaving things
> to the last minute.
>
> What we recommend is that they should have provided a contact point
> for those of us who had problems. I think after allowing several
> months for the preparation, a time window in the order of hours should
> not stop one from being included in such a competition. We were quite
> panicked when the submission form disappeared and sent a few emails to
> people we thought could help us but turned out otherwise.
>
> On the other hand Google was nice enough to reply to this message
> above privately, asking for the nature of our trouble, but we had
> additional misfortune that made us too late to be counted in.
> Basically they gave us a few hours to respond and we weren't even
> watching that mailbox because we sent the emails I mentioned above
> from another mailbox.
>
> Hope this helps somebody not to repeat the same mistake in the
> future.. Or, alternatively, you can just laugh your asses off.. :)
>
> -Cengiz
>
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Hielko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I think you are out of luck... (and this is exactly why waiting for
> > > the last minute to submit isn't very smart).
>
> > > On Apr 20, 6:58 pm, Cengiz Günay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > (bump)
>
> > > > On Apr 15, 2:29 am, Cengiz Günay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > We've been trying tosubmitsince one hour before the deadline and we
> > > > > couldn't get it. Now the submissions are closed. Does anybody know
> who
> > > > > ca we contact to send our application directly?
>
> > > > > -Cengiz- Hide quoted text -
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> > --
> > take care,
> > Muthu Ramadoss.
>
> >http://mobeegal.in
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