Wow, this is all over the blogosphere! https://twitter.com/ichattopadhyaya/status/331173658879983616 (yes, that's my twitter)
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:06 AM, bigonion <haibren...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, May 5, 2013 6:48:17 AM UTC+3, CoderBaba wrote: > > Well contrary to what Bartholomew Furrow said I think the violators > should have been disqualified from Qualification round. In that case these > emails would not have come in one after another. > > > > > In the qualification round it's not really that big a deal. Since there is > no limit on the number of participants in round 1, people deserve a chance > if only for the possibility of their violations being accidental and not > intentional. Some have noted that such accidents can actually occur, e.g. > by using an online IDE (such as Ideone.com, or using a students' insecure > network...). As everyone who deserves passing to round 1 actually does > pass, these things do not really matter, and they have no effect on the > rest of the contest. > These people get (or at least that's my guess) a warning letter, so they > can know they are busted, or learn how to fix their habits if the violation > was accidental. This way, the qualification round is only there to have > only contestants who actually know the basic of programming and they are > sent to round 1 once they know how the system works and what the rules are > (specifically if they are busted). The qualification is only there to have > the same start for everyone (even for those who compete for the first time). > > As long as there is a zero-tolerance attitude from round 1, which is where > the actual contest starts, it does not matter how the qualification round > is handled. I believe the Google team chose well how to handle these > violators. They will be caught and disqualified anyway if they continue so. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-code/jek9bjqtdpI/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-code/-/feiDqfAp4ugJ. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
