On Sunday, June 2, 2013 8:13:03 AM UTC-4, Shuaib Khan wrote: > Well, I am not totally opposed to the idea, but idea of shirts is usually its > exclusivity. The less number of people get it, the more valuable the shirt > is. Even though I have never won a shirt from gcj, I would still want that > the day I win it, it is me making it to the "exclusive" club, instead of > shirt valuing "down" for me ;). > > > > > On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Alex Essilfie <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think this is a good idea. > > > > > Vexorian wrote: > > > Just saying' :) > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Code Jam" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/973d5c9e-1696-4599-a794-72cb3e056996%40d10g2000yqb.googlegroups.com?hl=en. > > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > > > -- > Shuaib
We are not talking about making getting a t-shirt easier, but about making it depend less on the silly time factor. As a side effect it will also motivate problem setters to design their problems to avoid a huge amount of people tied with the same score at 1000-th place (Even though they already have some success with this, seeing at this year and past results). If we factor in that the next codejam will have more people in it, then even if we increase the number of people that get a t-shirt by 100 next year, it would still be a harder thing to do than 1000 this year.who get a t-shirt next year. --------------------- Something that gcj does well is that it gives less importance to time than Topcoder and Codeforces. In TopCoder, a better than average speed in easy problem gives better score than a lower than average medium problem. Even in cases where the medium is magnitudes more difficult. That is non-sense. In codeforces, the time you spend in the first problem significantly affects your score in *all* problems. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/d289d708-4075-4154-b133-042ba8d1d62c%40googlegroups.com?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
