To all those complaining on if the selection criteria is unfair should really reflect on themselves. The teams getting selected there were in Top 400, and had worked their backsides off for the regionals. You people are cribbing that selection on basis of merit is unfair? Is the some kind of joke or what? If you dont have enough merit to get selected by this years rules then its completely YOUR fault, stop trying to snatch chances of teams who worked had to go for onsite rounds, got ranks in top 100 but were second from their institute. Perhaps if you redirect this energy to practicing you might actually be under top 100 next time
but I believe Amritapuri has does a great job changing the selection criteria.
People on higher ranks are definitely more deserving teams for the onsite.
and to make it fair they have set a cap for no, of teams from a college. For how long were we supposed to compromise over quality of teams just for maximizing the quantity of colleges.
kudos to Amritapuri, Hope every Region follows the same in the future ICPC events
But the same cap for this year’s contest has turned out to give favor to top tier institutions. The cap size should have been updated given this year’s unusual online round. Even if they’d would have selected those teams solving 2 question this year that’d have been reasonable but they have even selected students solving 1 question only from IITs and IIITs. If you are selecting those teams from a college who are capable to solve more than 1 question and that number is quite large then why would want to select those who were able to solve only 1 question from that same place. This clearly violates what is written on their website “Selection of teams is according to the rank and those who have solved most number of problems are given priority. There will be a cap on maximum number of teams selected from one single institution.”
This has led to a very biased selection and there are some not so popular colleges which if given a little push and encouragement could probably excel. But no, everyone wants to go only for top tier institutions. This is very heart breaking.
Also, the email id button on their website is not working. There is no post on their facebook page(which btw is not accepting messages) regarding this year’s online or onsite regionals. Their twitter page has last post of 2008. So there is no way to communicate them. And now seeing here -ve upvotes on questions like this, which are needed to be addressed is even more heartbreaking
You didn’t got selected because of this rule because you don’t deserve.
Or more specifically, someone else deserved more.
IIT BOMBAY -16 TEAMS IIT ROORKEE -15+ TEAMS ? IS THIS FAIR?
Yes. It’s not their fault that they got admitted in IITs.
It’s your fault that you haven’t worked hard ( or smart ).
P.S : Even I didn’t got selected. And that’s fair.
"Select the top ranked team from each distinct school or institute.
Arrange all these top ranked teams with respect to their performance in the Preliminary Round.
Select teams from the top as long as the Onsite Contest slots are available and the list is not exhausted.
In case it is found that the number of selected teams in this process is less than the available slots, remove selected teams from
the Rank List and repeat"
So they just selected top 437 teams and said that maximum number of teams from institution is capping?
They are only selecting the top teams, capping should be predefined like they will select only top 5 or top 10 teams from each institution .
But no, everyone wants to go only for top tier institutions. This is very heart breaking.
Selection was not done by looking at college. All selected teams worked hard. Let me reword your issue to a more honest representation-
“But no, everyone wants top coders who worked hard the entire year and no one wants us who solved 1 cakewalk problem. This is heart breaking.”
With due respect, you got 3 regionals selecting top from each college, leave Amritapuri out of it please. If you arent even selected in those, then I see no reason for you to crib about. Merit based selection is never unfair.
Just making this clear, what you call “some not so popular colleges which if given a little push and encouragement could probably excel” would have been at cost of some eligible team in top 400 which, according to ranklist, deserved more than you to be there. Look at both sides of argument, and last, if you are calling merit based selection unfair then think what you are going to do in future phases of life where people only want merit and talent.