We had a bit of a discussion about this in the judges' room at the finals, and I'm interested in hearing what you guys think.
What should happen on the scoreboard when someone downloads the Large, and then 8 minutes pass without a submission? Obviously at the end of the contest it should say "Time Expired," but what should it say *during* the contest? Suppose I download A-large after 2 minutes. What should the scoreboard say after 12 minutes? 0. The scoreboard should read "Time Expired." (this is what it does now) 1. The scoreboard should show a submission at 10:00 (when time ran out). 2. The scoreboard should show a submission at 2:00 (when the input was downloaded). 3. The scoreboard should show no indication that the Large input was ever downloaded. 4. Penalty times for the Large (also the small?) should be based on the download time, not the upload time. So it would say 2:00 regardless of whether it was TLE or submitted. Some of these set up weird incentives. Part of the reason this came up is because under the current regime, players have incentive to submit garbage so their opponents didn't know they TLEed. No promises that we'll go with the most popular choice, since some of the alternatives are significantly harder to implement than others -- #0 is particularly easy! Your thoughts? Bartholomew -- 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.
