i have told that I figured the same solution which could have passed the weak cc tests but was wrong but didn’t code as i had figured out the case it wasn’t working on.so to avoid penalties didn’t submit
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It’s definately not the most logical thing to do ! What you are suggesting is a very personal opinion of yours but there might be some team that put in a lot of time in that one question which you are requesting removal of, it will be very unfair to such teams then !
Either they should stick to the initial ranklist or just reconduct the round ! Making changes to the ranklist now, over which the participants have no control does not make any sense !
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We came rank 25 in ICPC for Schools. We put Amrita bengaluru and amrita kollam as our options respectively(1 and 2). Will we get our 1st preference(bengaluru)?
So teams not sending wrong solution should get penalized and teams sending should get AC ? Yaa thats logical.
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Firstly, a solution that got accepted was not correct. And if anyone has spent a lot of time would figure out the case which would not passed the solution.
And of course they thought of a wrong solution. And a wrong solution does not deserve 100 points.
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I got 21st rank in ICPC FOR SCHOOLS and choosen amritapuri begaluru campus and iiit pune campus as preference is there any chance of getting selected into regionals.
Team name:log1basen
Wrong solution (question) does not deserve to exist. The best thing that they could do is make it an approximation problem, as it makes no sense to make teams waste time over something that does not exist.
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How is making it an approximation problem, “the best thing to do”? Someone who can’t think of counter test cases to their solution does not deserve any points. Wrong solutions, if they fail on even one test case, do not deserve any points. What you are saying is that some team that submitted a solution that only passed the sample test case deserves more points than a team that could think of some counter test case to the trivial, incorrect, greedy solution but could not come up with a correct, proven, perhaps non existent solution. How is that “the best thing to do”?
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Inspite of an obvious greedy solution, the number of correct subs to that problem were quite less, and accuracy was quite low. So may be there were teams who actually tried an algo which could produce a better answer and yet got WA and teams who tried obvious easy approach got 100 pts. Maybe making it an approximation problem will fill that gap. Also, our team got WA on that, so not trying to justify a wrong solution.
Well, there is no right solution.
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I would have tried it if it would have been an approximation problem.
How would it be fair to me ?
Also some people like @taran_1407 made a brute force checker to not get penalty.
They didn’t submit as their solution was not passing stress testing.
They could have easily solved given it had been a approximation problem.
How will it be fair to them ?
Agree.
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Yes, you are right.
Actually there is no point of this discussion as there is no way to make this fair to all. Just wish the problem setter / tester / any one on the organizing panel also wrote a brute force solution and checked like many participants.
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“Someone who can’t think of counter test cases to their solution does not deserve any points.” By that logic, the setters of this contest (who could not find this counter test case over many days of testing) do not deserve to set this contest. Nice way to ask for a re-contest!
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What is the contact name in the onsite round registration form ? anyone?
One who is doing the payment preferably.
Today we got certificates on our ICPCID , it shows we secured 99th place in Kanpur region but we haven’t recieved any mail for onsite registration . Can anyone explain it ?
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