That's amazing! The picture of you scribbling out algorithms whilst the kid next to you is whooping about their latest frag... awesome :) Congratulations for advancing under such duress!
There must be more good stories like this out there :) Paul Smith [email protected] On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Boris Strandjev <[email protected]> wrote: > I can tell you the story of how i got to the finals 2008. I did the > qualification in Prague, Czech Republic where I was on a vacation. Then I > did the first round in my home city - Sofia, the capitol of Bulgaria. Then I > went to another vacation in our seaside and made the second round on a bench > in the famous Bulgarian sea resort Slanchev Briag. The third round that > qualified me for the semifinals I did in a really small computer club in the > cute town of Primorsko, again at the sea side with several dozen screaming > teenagers playing Counter Strike around. My semifinals were in Zurich from > where I qualified, obviously for Mountain View near San Francisco. I > competed also there. > > So that totals to 6 different places in which I competed. Is this better > story? > > Cheers, > Boris > > 2010/4/21 Paul Smith <[email protected]> >> >> I'm going to have a very interesting qualification round for this >> year's CodeJam. >> >> I live in England, and play a card game called Magic: The Gathering. >> There's a Grand Prix, which is a large open competition, in Lyon in >> France on the weekend of the 8th and 9th of May. I'm going to the >> Grand Prix as part of my stag do (I'm getting married in August). >> >> This means that for the duration of the qualification round I'll be in >> a foreign country playing a card game tournament. Somehow I will try >> to find a computer that I can compete from, an internet connection I >> can rely on, and enough time to answer the CodeJam questions in >> between rounds of the tournament. >> >> Does anyone have a better qualification story than that? >> >> Paul Smith >> >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
