It's probably a personal thing. I found these ones to be considerably easier than, say, Watersheds, Welcome to Code Jam or Fly Swatter from previous years
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:34 PM, kirk79 <kir...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been in at least the last 3 codejams, and have never had any > difficulty in the qualification round. Today I sat down to qualify > and it was a real challenge! > > Not only were the problems tricky enough that I failed on the small > input a few times before succeeding (on all three problems), but the > large input contained such a huge jump in data size that my algorithm > which would comfortable solve small input in 100ms couldn't solve > large input in 8 minutes! > > I'm sure that it's not just me - this years qualification problems > were much more difficult than in previous years. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-c...@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-c...@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.