Cengiz, Thanks for the details. This certainly cleared up the whole thing for us.
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Cengiz Günay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 - > > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > -- > > take care, > > Muthu Ramadoss. > > > > http://mobeegal.in > > find stuff closer. > > > -- take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://mobeegal.in find stuff closer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
