Hi All, I'm sending this email because there was a minor irregularity in the Qualification Round, and it's important to us that we're open about such things. *Unless you personally received a separate email from me about this subject, this doesn't affect you directly.*
For most Code Jam problems, there's essentially one correct output per input. On Minesweeper Master there were many, so we wrote what we call a "custom judge". Unfortunately there was a bug in the judge's code that caused it to accept solutions that it shouldn't have. After careful consideration, we decided to fix the judge during the contest. At the end of the contest, it turned out that if we were to rejudge all the submitted solutions using the corrected judge, only one contestant would have changed from advancing to not advancing. As a consequence, we've decided to leave the scoreboard alone. We wanted to avoid a case where contestants were told they'd earned points, but actually hadn't; and this bug had the minimum impact with only that one extra contestant being advanced. If you're interested in whether your solution *would* have been impacted, you can go to the contest dashboard<https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/2974486/dashboard>, grab your last submission from the "Submissions" section, and submit your solution in practice mode to find out. Best, Bartholomew, for the Code Jam team -- 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/CAHaiWHNjm-4Rcx%3DFoRykspkgiNV%3DbtsPDvDxadDL%3Diz0ZAA7DA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
