Hey Boris, Great story. Were you invited to work at google?
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Paul Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]<google-code%[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]<google-code%[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]<google-code%[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.
