All massive rounds are gone and activity in this forum goes to sleep till next year... I am still to participate in Round 2, but mainly for statistics :) - It would take a lot of luck to get through to Round 3.
On the positive side - I finally started doing rounds at Topcoder and Codeforces, and in the middle of transition from Python to C++. So next year I should be much better prepared. On a side note, I also noticed some change to the style of problems (I saw already such discussions on forums). I can't figure out exactly what is different - I just have word "messier", but there were messy problems before. I am wondering if this is actually some noticeable change in Codejam Team (need to check authors from this and previous years, after all editorials are up). And competition I felt was more fierce this year then the last, though I think that it is the same story every year, as Codejam still gains momentum. I also think that in some way 25 people on-site finals are ridiculously small (even Russian Code Cup has 50 people, though it is smaller and their sponsor is apparently smaller then Google). But even if it gets to 100 people I am still unlikely to ever participate - so I don't care. Still, at the very top of any sports chance also becomes very significant factor - meaning that when you have 100 people competing at very-very high level actual 25 best will depend more on luck, then on skill. So this might be argument for increasing on-site finals count. Also I'd like to thank organizers. Especially for inclusiveness of all languages - world outside of Codejam is much tougher on languages like Python. Hope you are not going to kill as with Round 2 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 google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/414598c4-e325-4736-bbb2-efb4e51d6638%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
