Exactly my point!
Not really. Itâs quite your fault even after reading the question and seeing the sample test cases, you didnât understand the question. You cannot just put blame on the organizers because of that just because you fucked up.
Most of my friends solved it within the first 40 mins without any penalties.
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Statement was not wrong in any way.
You just had to comprehend the problem statement properly after seeing the test cases. And this has been true for most of the CC short and long contests.
With the sample outputs given, there is no scope that you can blame the setters or the organisers just because you didnât read the sample outputs carefully or you didnât understand the problem statement.
It was clearly given if you have say 104, you have to print 4, and not 04. HENCE THERE IS NO AMBIGUITY IN THAT.
Having said this, most of my friends solved the question within 30 mins without any penalties, and even all of the top teams did so.
So just stop blaming the question setters for your huge carelessness.
P.S. On a funny note, itâs insane to see how many people have written how ICPC is there lifeâs dream and how it got fucked because of CC setting this 1st question lol. If ICPC is your lifeâs dream, arenât you supposed to read the 1st question very very carefully and tally it with the given output? I mean, excuse me, wtf!? ÂŻ\(ă)/ÂŻ
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huge downvote
Rightly said.
You will not understand this. Had you been not selected for regionals for this one penalty even after solving 3 questions, you would get what I and many others are trying to say.
I understand itâs a sad story. And a HUGE number of people of all expertise did this mistake. But that doesnât mean youâll blame the organizers, neither does it give a scope to legit request a Rejudgement or Cancelling of Penalties/Contest.
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@justanotherlad idiot whats the point of changing the code for leading zeroes when it was clearly mentioned that its allowed rip logic 
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Anyways justice has been served the questions got rechecked
Not it hasnât, they will never be able to give back the valuable time we wasted on that silly problem during the contest, while we could have used it on another question.
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Yep thatâs true tho but still something is better than nothing
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More precisely, allow submissions with leading zeroes submitted before problem statement updation
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Even if the first solution is rejudged, it cannot bring back the time which have spent unnecessarily on the first question. By wasting more than 1 hour on the first question, it broke out morale and we also lost precious time. We were able to solve 3 questions finally with no chance of qualifying. If the issue did not occur, we could have got more time for other questions. A blunder on such a serious contest is completely unacceptable.
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dude seriously
weak test cases is still a secondary problem
for first problem there was only penalty
but many people were not able to solve the problem cause we know where our test cases was failing
it completely costs us 1 point which is infinitely times more important than some penalty
To Mr Prakhar,
Well man i have to say that this right here is discussion and we are given rights to express our feelings about the contest. I read the rules beforehand and kinda felt that they were little too complicated, so therefore i expressed my concern. But my main objective was to remove time penalty of question 1.
solution should be rejuded
solutions like 004 and 4 should be considered correct rather than removing penalty for all people who have solved the problem with wrong logic
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Guys I have opted for Pune regional, Our rank was around 2500 but we topped in our college. Is there any slim chance of qualifying?
Actually we were the only team!
To Sarthak,
Yah man it definitely was codechef faultâs. I would explain myself briefly if you are that stupid too understand yourself.
First of all the site wasnât working properly and no pages were opening. I could see submissions happening all around but the page with questions was still not working. Dont you think that itâs bit impartial.
And second of all, our team read the test cases, but the leading zeroes line was bit misleading too.
Everyone would have their doubts who have sound knowledge of English and grammar.
And third yah we asked and read in the comments section but it was too late. The page itself was taking time too much of time to load earlier.
And thatâs all i have to say in my defense. FYI Please man mind your tongue too by the way. This is Internet and not your hostel.
I think yes, you will qualify
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