On Saturday, April 26, 2014 2:05:36 PM UTC-4, Aaron Chan wrote: > It's top 1000 T-shirts. Regardless, it's just about the same as the TopCoder > open, which also only the top 24 people gets on site invites.
Yeah, and it is also a big waste of time from a competitive aspect. Tournaments used to have far more on site finalists. GCJ had *500* onsite semifinalists. The thing is that the incredibly low 24-25, is a great way to ensure that the finalists are basically the same homogeneous group always. Unless you are one of the top 50 or so. The only way you can really justify participation in these things is if you are actually learning something. Do notice that the context was a message that said that posting analysis doesn't matter in GCJ because it is a competition and not a course. I took offense to that because the educational aspect of these things has always been far more important to me than the competitive part. -- 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/a289282a-1b9e-48c9-9117-a9e9fbd19eda%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
