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.
>
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