Maybe to facilitate participation of people from different time zones, as the contest will last only for 2.5 hrs. Anyone who ranks under 1000 in any of the runds is eligible for the next round.
More information on the contest structure can be found here : This is an excerpt from the same link : https://code.google.com/codejam/terms.html#code-jam-2015-additional-terms "*3.1 Code Jam Structure. * 1. *(A) Qualification Round. Code Jam will start with a qualification round on Friday, April 10, 2015 at 23:00 UTC (4:00 PM PT) and run for 27 hours, ending on Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 2:00 UTC (Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 7:00pm PT). In the Qualification Round, you must log in to the Contest website to attempt to solve a number of problems within the 27-hour period. If you earn a minimum number of points during the qualification round, which will be displayed on the Contest website, you will advance to Round 1 of Code Jam.* 2. *(B) Round 1. Code Jam Round 1 is conducted online and is offered in three sub-rounds at the times specified at https://code.google.com/codejam/schedule.html <https://code.google.com/codejam/schedule.html> from Saturday, April 18, 2015 (Friday, April 17th PST) to Sunday, May 10, 2015. If you advanced to Code Jam Round 1, you can participate in any or all of the sub-rounds by logging into the Contest website to solve a number of problems until you qualify for Code Jam Round 2. However, once you qualify for Code Jam Round 2, you may not participate in any later sub-rounds of Code Jam Round 1. You will advance to Code Jam Round 2 if you are one of the top-scoring 1000 contestants from one of the sub-rounds in Code Jam Round 1. You will be notified by email after the end of each sub-round if you are one of the 3000 contestants advancing to Code Jam Round 2.* 3. *(C) Round 2. Code Jam Round 2 is conducted online and will begin on Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 14:00 UTC and will end on Saturday, May 30 at 16:30 UTC. To participate in Code Jam Round 2, you must log in to the Contest website to solve problem sets. You will advance to Code Jam Round 3 if you are one of the top-scoring 500 contestants from Code Jam Round 2. You will be notified by email after the end of Code Jam Round 2 if you are one of the 500 contestants advancing to Code Jam Round 3.* 4. *(D) Round 3. Code Jam Round 3 is conducted online and will begin on Saturday, June 13, 2015 14:00 UTC and will end on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 16:30 UTC. To participate in Code Jam Round 3, you must log in to the Contest website to solve problem sets. You will advance to the onsite final round of Code Jam if you are one of the top-scoring 25 contestants from Code Jam Round 3. You will be notified by email after the end of Code Jam Round 3 if you are one of the 25 contestants advancing to the final round of Code Jam.* 5. *(E) Final Round. * 1. *(1) Time and Location. The final round of Code Jam will be held on Friday, August 14, 2015 at the Google offices in Seattle, Washington, USA. Google may change the date and location of the final round in its discretion.* 2. *(2) Structure. During the final round of Code Jam, you will be asked to solve problem sets using only Google-provided computer equipment. You may choose to use your own keyboard and other materials permitted by Google. Google will send you a list of permitted materials by email at least 7 days before the beginning of the final round.* 3. *(3) Last Year's Winner. If you are the winner of Google Code Jam 2014 and enter Google Code Jam 2015 and are otherwise eligible to participate, you will automatically advance to the final round of Code Jam.* " On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:51 AM, oflocon <[email protected]> wrote: > why is the next round divided into 3 subrounds ? do we have to clear all > three to continue with the competition ? any one knowing format of next > round Please help > > -- > 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/bdf947b1-3a11-4319-a35f-4465ae49d3c6%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/CAFHpKLzn6WEr4hghfhWDVNCvN43FEozUc8Y7exKjcfNfn1tpaw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
