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> On 15 May 2014, at 09:47, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good luck getting to Round 3! > > About the 'messier' problems. I just wanted to say that I believe CodeJam > does have a very quirky style when it comes to creating problems, and I love > it. I haven't ever entered TopCoder things because in comparison they seem > so dry and boring. Maybe I am too harsh on TopCoder, but all I Wanted to say > was that Google's problem setting style is a real boon - I love it! > > Paul > > Paul Smith > > [email protected] > > >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Stanislav Zholnin >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 [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/414598c4-e325-4736-bbb2-efb4e51d6638%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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/CAJej63J987MqeM%2Bvjjn_AzgNPuyVPoJ-Q-LKiO7ESEeyzsA8yQ%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/42703D07-4F43-4CB9-8A49-CE334A3C474D%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
