My view on this: a) We are all humans and we make blunders. So yes, it will always happen that somebody attached the wrong file somewhere.
b) if there is error, there must be penalty. Even if it is just a blunder. LeppyR64 noted that there are checks on the input file. I understand that you invented this automated "swapping" as a means to avoid wrong submission. While what LeppyR64 proposed would be counted as wrong submission. I would side with LeppyR64 here - if there is error, there must be penalty. c) I admit that at some point I might mistakenly attach the wrong source file. I am not sure if it is in FAQ, but this is what I would do. Imagine I submitted input and just a second after realized that I attached wrong file. So at least I know that I made a mistake. In this situation I would immediately shoot an e-mail to [email protected] saying "Hey, I am XXX, I made wrong attachment to problem B, correct attachment is with this e-mail" As for situations when you didn't notice error - then you either go and check you submissions a few minutes before time is up. Or you don't and take a risk of penalty. I hope that in later rounds, where there are less people, sending e-mail like this would only entail a time penalty (as if you submitted input only when you sent e-mail to [email protected]). Assumption is that this does not happen to too many people each round and Codejam team is not overloaded with e-mail like this. -- 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/e5ffae6b-3713-4151-a929-56cfaa273532%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
