ICPC India Regionals Online Round 2019 - Updates

l_returns · October 22, 2019, 6:21pm

Single answer to both of your why’s
They are doing that for getting more number of seats in world finals.

I guess Since 1950 ? ( when indian reservation system… )
My rank was ~320 in online round.

I feel the regionals and whole event won’t be fun if only iit’s and nit’s teams meet at regionals. The whole point of regional is not only contest.
Keeping some seats reserve for top teams and allowing others is better imo. Again it’s my opinion. Your opinion might differ. I am not commenting on number of top teams which should be reserved.
Culture in a college affects a lot and you’ll realize this only if you join one. And Ik its little unfair with some teams but…

dormordo · October 23, 2019, 1:34am

btw are you are from cheenta? just asking

venkat_nikhil1 · October 23, 2019, 3:14am

Atleast one region should select based on rank. That way, teams that got <200 rank can participate in atleast one regionals. It’s sad to see that teams which got >1k rank participate in two regionals as they are topped their college, while our team (rank <200) cannot participate in even one because we didn’t top our college.

l_returns · October 23, 2019, 5:20am

Yeah that can be done. I don’t mind if they announce it earlier and all regionals decide mutually.

sshhhh · October 23, 2019, 6:07am

Best solution is to remove the Game of OR problem and adjust ranklist accordingly. Here is why:

Those teams who didn’t attempt because they found corner-case will be happy with it.
Those teams who got AC during contest, shouldn’t have got an AC then. And even if they knew that, there wasn’t any way they could’ve changed their solution to get it done since there exists none as of now. So it’s not unfair for them as well.

It’s just that few teams got undue advantage during contest by getting AC inspite of wrong solution and few are at disadvantage by not submitting anything. So scraping the problem is the right way to balance it out!

ankur314 · October 23, 2019, 6:43am

Codechef has already given the ranklist to the regionals. Most probably nothing will happen now. Let’s make peace with this fact.

pankajkhan · October 23, 2019, 6:46am

where can I access the problem statements?

sshhhh · October 23, 2019, 8:49am

Not really. Read the post. Codechef has forwarded the ranklist alongwith the issues and concerns. Now it’s upto the regional directors to decide.

anurag23 · October 23, 2019, 1:42pm

My rank was 1788 according to codechef ranklist…and 1 in my cllg,Is there any chance for selection for onsite round in amritapuri region?As the expected rank list for amritapuri shows it 279.

i_64 · October 23, 2019, 2:06pm

How about waiting until the results are out, why are people running analytics and making expected ranklists and all…

inou · October 23, 2019, 2:10pm

The same reason as you checked your JEE rank using different rank predictors!

i_64 · October 23, 2019, 2:10pm

Nope I didn’t
I already knew I’d screwed up
Jale pe namak lol

inou · October 23, 2019, 2:12pm

Many others are hopeful though! Just a small relief!

i_64 · October 23, 2019, 2:15pm

Expectation is the root of all heartache
~ Shakespeare

zura · October 23, 2019, 3:38pm

No, it isn’t the right way to balance it out obviously. I’ll copy paste CF comment here

ps: whether or not problem is discarded, our qualification remains unaffected.

pulkitb_01 · October 23, 2019, 4:16pm

What about the leading zeros statement written in question one? Is it fair to put wrong statements in the question.

aman_robotics · October 23, 2019, 4:21pm

As far as I can see from the ranklist, some teams in our college got penalties because of this and now the penalties are removed.

babangain · October 23, 2019, 5:14pm

Yes, I believe. Many applied for both Kanpur and Amrita. They can’t appear on both as it is very difficult to travel in short duration.
People who applied for Amrita would not get train tickets. So, they will not appear.
Pretty good chance I believe.

sshhhh · October 23, 2019, 8:40pm

That’s obviously their fault they spent the entire time behind a single problem and not look at those other 2 which they think they could’ve ACed.

Also coming up with a wrong solution is of no credit. Period.

codenameghost · October 24, 2019, 5:09am

Umm that’s why there are sample input output cases, did u see leading zeros in those? Or did u see the problem statement had written it somewhere that leading zeros are allowed?