Yes, I mean, I found it similar to SPOJ and UVA.

In TC, if a competitor can't do better in coding phase, he normally
get another chance to recover in challenge phase. I am not at all
marketing TC here :) but just like TC Code Jam style was more
interesting to me

On 4/20/10, Vexorian <[email protected]> wrote:
> A large amount of those 10000+ used C++, Java, python or C#, the
> languages offered in TC codejam. I don't think the other languages
> really increased participation that much. I just wish go-hero would
> have overall statistics because getting them individually for each
> round is not that useful in this situation.
>
> I think data-driven format is annoying. Even more annoying than the
> "submit source code manually" format in online judges
>
> On Apr 19, 8:33 pm, Carlos Guia <[email protected]> wrote:
>> TopCoder still offers the "TopCoder Open" and "Single Round Matches", so
>> that format is still alive. On the other hand, GCJ's new format is a
>> refreshing one, giving us some diversity over a year's course. Moreover, I
>> don't think more people would participate, currently there are about 6600
>> active contestants in TC algorithm competitions, and last year there were
>> more than 10000 in the GCJ. Maybe because you are not bound to a small set
>> of languages, there are participants who only know php, or python, or some
>> other language TC doesn't support, and those who are always active in TC
>> will participate in the GCJ either way.
>>
>> Carlos Guía
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, JGN <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I would guess that it refers to the fact that all the problems are
>> > data-processing ones, i.e. get input X, work your coding magic,
>> > produce output Y in the format specified by the rules.
>>
>> > On Apr 19, 9:30 am, Lev Neiman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > What do you guys mean by data driven?  Do you mean the fact that you
>> > > code
>> > a
>> > > function that solves just one particular case at a time?
>> > > - Lev.
>>
>> > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Paul Smith <[email protected]
>> > >wrote:
>>
>> > > > Indeed I like the data driven format and enjoy the CodeJam, but have
>> > > > never been particularly driven to participate at Topcoder.
>>
>> > > > Paul Smith
>>
>> > > > [email protected]
>>
>> > > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Luke Pebody <[email protected]>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > > Google decided to branch out from the topcoder format. I think, in
>> > making
>> > > > > their contests data-oriented, they have a fairly unique and
>> > interesting
>> > > > > landmark in the coding contest landscape. In that regard (not to
>> > mention
>> > > > > that they are now using their own Google Apps framework), I should
>> > think
>> > > > we
>> > > > > are unlikely to see Code Jam return to the TopCoder fold.
>>
>> > > > > On 19 Apr 2010, at 07:13, Qasim Zeeshan <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > > > > Hi,
>> > > > > Back in 2005-06, I participated in a code jam that was hosted by
>> > > > TopCoder.
>> > > > > That was real fun because their process is really interesting.
>> > > > > Can we see code jam back on TC in the near future because I am
>> > > > > sure
>> > that
>> > > > the
>> > > > > participation will be far more attractive in that case.
>>
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