Indeed.
You know what, I started in early hours of the contest. Tried 2 problems but couldn’t get AC. After spending almost 2 hours, I checked the Graphs section, at that time only 2 problems had submissions which were either Accepted or had Presentation Error, I solved those two problems in about an hour.
Then I checked the graph again, still the condition was same and I was like, one more problem and I will be on TOP. Hell yeah!!! 
Later, in an hour, I realised that I was not spending time, but I was actually wasting time on those problems. I checked the graph, it showed over 2500 unaccepted, but no accepted solution yet. I mailed them regarding the same, and they replied: “The problems have been thoroughly tested, check your solution.”
Remaining two problems had no accepted submissions too, so considering the situation then, I assumed that those were thoroughly tested too, and decided to quit. Most probably, others must have assumed the same, since there were not so many submissions at that time. But when I checked the graph in the last 5 minutes, there were some Amoeba sized bars of presentation error verdict (for the remaining two problems questions).
Hats Off to the TCS CodeVita Season 9 Setting Team (& Testing team too, if they exist)
Thank You for such a great, I mean not so great Contest. (flow flow me great likh diya 
)
P.S, The two thoroughly tested problems were Fill the Cube and Odd Even.
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The only mistake that i have made is in space between two words .if it it mentioned in the problem statement correctly that would be have accpeted .poor problem statement
I think TCS this year strategy for hiring would be something like that:
TCS to interviewee: Do you understood the problem statement?
Student: Yes but could not implement it.
TCS: Its alright, you are selected. This year students just have to understand what the question really meant(they don’t concern about whether it is solvable or not. They were just thinking that “how to torture the students for 6hours with a question which is logically incorrect.”)
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hii, bro but why they don’t show to live graph in ongoing contest
I think it was some Algae from TCS Gutter 
Interviewer: Kya kya kar lete ho?
Interviewee: Sir galat testcases banake full confidence me reply kar sakta hu ki tum saare ke saare 3000 log nikamme ho, sabke solutions galat hai.
Interviewer: Salary kitni loge bhaiya, discuss karle.
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yess poor prob. statement & testcases r also very bad & wrong too much but the mistake in ur code is
suppose the sum is 9 then if {5,4} appears more then one time then that will be counted more than one, i think one pair is one allowed only time as per understanding the question.
but any way whole problem is wrong totally 
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Maybe because of too many reports with Graphs as proof of their thorough testing.
My solution for Path through graph hzFN0v - Online C++0x Compiler & Debugging Tool - Ideone.com
Used coordinate compression and bfs
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Most probably those four were unsolvable too. 
Did you check the graph?
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Did you get 288 for first test case?
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Cheer up bro, you’re not the only victim. 
This question is actually available on
Leetcode
The setters are really dumb. I saw one of the set from zone 1 and the questions were as easy as codeforces A and B
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Would love to know correct solutions of string pair and string merge, I invested a lot of time still couldn’t clear private test cases.
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Nah i just typed split string into 3 palindromes and it was on top of result
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This round was a blunder 
a complete waste of 6 hours!
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