To add to this: Dmitry and Natalia have appealed this decision, so it has not been finalized, and has not been examined by a jury of any kind. We'll make a final decision and contact the appellants, at which point they're free to share with you what we decide.
Thanks Roman for adding your voice to this; if anyone else has anything to add, please feel free to contact us at programmingcontest-feedb...@google.com. Regards, Bartholomew On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:11 PM, dmitrymatov <dmitryma...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > I'm in complete shock. We have been working hard for years to build > the unified team coding style, and now it is the reason for > disqualification:) > > You may ask, why I'm writing this post. I want to know your opinion, > especially opinion of the ACM ICPC participants. Look at the code. Is > it so specific to be written independently by members of the same > team? Do you believe me or do you think the same way as the jury? > > So... > > It's better to post the letter chain here (read from the bottom): > > 2009/10/5 Dmitry Matov <dmitryma...@gmail.com> > > We met with Natalia today and guessed the reason together:). May > be you won't consider it as an appeal, but I'll try to explain the > similarity of our solutions. Natalia and I are members of one ACM ICPC > Team, Saratov SU#1. We have participated together for 4 years. We have > unified coding style and use the same patterns. We use the same > template file for our solutions. We use the same pdf with common-use > algorithms (on ICPC Finals such pdf is called Team Notebook), and we > do not hesitate to copy parts of the code from it. Ask any experienced > former ACM participant from your Code Jam Team. They will confirm that > the members of the ACM ICPC team should write code and even think the > same way if they want to reach success. The similarity is too > subjective concept, an it's so sad that you use such vague criterion. > We didn't co-operate during the contest, you can't prove the fact. You > are able to disqualify anyone using such criterions. > > 2009/10/5 Bartholomew Furrow <fur...@google.com> > > Dear Nerevar, > > While reviewing the source code submitted by all the > contestants, we discovered that your source code was similar or > identical to another user's. Specifically, you had code that was very > similar to user natalia's for C-small. Since entering the contest > multiple times is not allowed, and neither is co-operation with other > contestants, we have disqualified both of you from the competition. > > Regards, > Bartholomew Furrow > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 03:55, Dmitry Matov > <dmitryma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello. > > Sorry, but I dont't understand which of the rules I have > violated. Could you specify the exact rule or term? > I think it will be fair if I know the exact reason of my > disqualification. Only after knowing it I can decide whether to appeal > or not. > > Thank you. > > 2009/10/5 <codejam.ad...@gmail.com> > > Hello Nerevar, > > Unfortunately, we determined that your participation in Round 2 > was in violation of our Official Rules, as stated at > http://code.google.com/codejam/rules.html, and you have been > eliminated from this year's contest. Please read through both our > Rules and our Terms & Conditions (available at > http://code.google.com/codejam/terms.html) > thoroughly. If you would like to appeal your disqualification, or have > questions about it, contact us at programmingcontest- > feedb...@google.com before October 6th at 19:00 UTC**, which is > roughly 38 hours after this email was sent. > > Regards, > The Code Jam Team > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
