I wish every code change were this easy. Starting in the next round, your country of citizenship will be shown on the scoreboard rather than your country of residence. We don't currently plan to alter scoreboard rows for previous contests, so your country of representation in the qual. round won't change. Cheers, Bartholomew
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Mustafa Acer <mea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am also for the country of citizenship. I was disappointed when I > wasn't able to see my home country's flag because there weren't too > many people from there. > > On Sep 4, 11:43 am, Bartholomew Furrow <fur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I show up in the scoreboard with the flag of my current mailing > > > address and not the flag of my citizenship. Both are entered > > > correctly in the demographic registration form. Is that really the > > > ideal format? > > > > Interesting point. I suspect the reason we do you country of residence > > (rather than your country of citizenship) is almost entirely for > historical > > reasons (or "hysterical raisins" as they're also known). > > > > What does everyone else think? Would you rather have country of > citizenship > > rather than country of residence on the scoreboard? > > > > Last year we had the option of a non-optimistic scorebroad during the > > > > > competition, but that option doesn't show up on my scoreboard this > > > year. I had to watch the optimistic board during the qual round. Will > > > we see non-optimistic come back? > > > > We currently have no plans to bring the non-optimistic scoreboard back. > My > > view, and I think the view of much of the team, is that it's pretty > useless. > > Who do you want to see in front: the person who fully solved all the > > problems but one, or the person who solved all the Small inputs and > nothing > > else? It's a scoreboard that only reflects less than half of the > available > > points, and it bears little relation to the final scoreboard. Ultimately > we > > decided that as a feature, it simply isn't valuable enough to justify the > > amount of time it would take the engineering team to maintain it. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
