Hello. My nickname is e-maxx, and I took part in the Qualification Round 2, and failed to qualify to the next round, and one of the reasons was that my submission for the A-Large failed systests (the other reason is, of course, that I solved too few problems to qualify into top-500 more surely).
After the contest it turned out that the file A-large.in, that I downloaded during the contest, was corrupted: in fact, only first 230 KBs of 418 KBs were loaded (though the browser didn't show any error). I don't know the reason for that - maybe the network problem (though I remember the same problem occured in GCJ with several other participants a year or two ago). As a proof to the fact, that the problem was not caused by me, there are two facts: a) the code I submitted during the contest was the same code, that got Accepted in the Practice, immediately after I downloaded the right file (I believe that contestants upload their solutions to help to investigate such problems); b) I apply an archive with the two versions of A-large.in file: the first one was downloaded during the contest (230 KBs) and the second - was downloaded during the practice (418 KBs) - http://e-maxx.ru/upload/A-large.zip; c) this problem with corrupted input-file was very difficult to detect by me during the contest - I could have inserted checks for EOFs, but during the competition this may cost several important minutes. What do you think in this situation? Is it really fair to not accept my A-large, though the same solution got accepted in the practice? -- 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.
