whatever it is, I think one thing for sure, this thread has attracted a lot discussion!
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Bharath Raghavendran <[email protected]>wrote: > not being in top 500 + not getting t-shirt also seems like lose-lose :P > increasing t-shirts can actually motivate ppl too. if only 500 ppl are > getting t-shirts and others hv no difference in their life bcoz of this > codejam, maybe around 5000 will participate to try to get into top 500 ... > if 1000 ppl get t-shirts, some more (5000 more? :P) will participate in > hopes of coming into 501-1000 atleast :D > > +1 for t-shirts to top 1000 :D :D > > 2009/9/29 Felix Halim <[email protected]> > > >> Making the t-shirt available for rank below 500 will make the tshirt >> less valuable, even though the tshirt "printed word" is made >> different. This because more people get the "satisfaction". And when >> they are satisfied, they becomes less motivated... which is bad... >> (lose-lose strategy) >> >> A win-win strategy is to improve yourself, and try again next year ;). >> This will maintain the tshirt value high and will motivate many >> algorists to improve. >> >> Felix Halim >> >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Chris K. Jester-Young >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Sep 26, 3:11 pm, Lev <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Pretty please. All I want is the T-Shirt :((( >> > >> > Now, because no one mentioned it in this thread, I say a tshirt should >> > be made available for sale that reads "pwned by Google Code Jam" or >> > even "GCJ-pwned". :-P It could either be restricted to people who >> > participated in Round 2 and scored below rank 500, or it could just be >> > publicly available. It'd be cool, no matter what. :-) >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Chris. >> > > >> > >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" 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/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
