Having participated in all 3 rounds, I personally thought that round C was the easiest.
Of course, round A was the easiest given that you only had to get one small right, but you could not possibly guess you only needed a fast small, so I think people were aiming directly at the larges at first ( I was). On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Baroukh <cyrilk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Round 1A was a lot easier also regarding the problems ... > And to qualify you needed 9 points against 45 for the round 1B. > > Regards, > Cyril. > > On Sep 13, 9:49 am, Асямов Игорь <igor9...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I agree about that Round 1A was easiest to qualified, but not in problems,it >> was harder than in 1B Round. >> >> 2009/9/12 Marian <marian.olte...@gmail.com> >> >> >> >> >> >> > I second that. >> > Although I performed miserably and I though I'll have to compete in >> > the morning round after I realized that my large dataset submission >> > was wrong (losing 30 points), I was surprised that I was qualified >> > with only 10 points. >> >> > On Sep 12, 7:54 am, Vexorian <vexor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > Apparently the easiest round was 1A. With only 2000~ competitors >> > > getting a positive score, and people advancing by just doing a brute >> > > force algorithm for A. >> >> > > On Sep 9, 6:19 pm, Brian Watkins <wildu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > > > It looks like I've been assigned to all the rounds: 1A, 1B, and 1C. >> > > > Maybe you have, too. >> >> > > > Which do you figure will be the easiest to advance in? And which will >> > > > be the hardest? >> >> > > > The first round will probably be the hardest because all the top >> > > > coders will advance leaving only the dregs to compete against in the >> > > > later rounds. >> >> > > > But the last round will really be the hardest because it will be full >> > > > of people who didn't manage to advance yet fighting for their very >> > > > survival in Code Jam. >> >> > > > On the other hand, the middle round will be the hardest because it is >> > > > the most convenient time for the giant avalanche of genius Chinese >> > > > coders. >> >> > > > What do you think? > > > -- Piva --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
