Hi, The new scoring system cannot distinguish between solutions which really attempt to solve hard subtask, and solutions which do not. The consequence is:
1) Points in scoreboard are not granular: for each problem, the points will be always either 0, or full points for that problem. 2) This makes us not able to estimate actual difficulty of hard subtask in each problem by looking at scoreboard. 3) This also makes us not able to estimate our final rank mid-contest. 4) Which makes watching scoreboard almost useless mid-contest. The old system did not have the above problems because hard subtasks must be submitted separately. We were able to "bluff", however, by submitting random solution to hard subtasks, but with the cost of not being able to submit actual solution afterwards because we can only submit hard subtasks only once. That way, scoreboard was really exciting to watch back then, and we can estimate final rank, estimate hard difficulty, etc. Any thoughts on this? Can we make separate submissions for hard subtasks, and make it submittable only once, like we had in the old system? Thanks! fushar -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-code/6ff472c3-a9e3-480f-b355-ab65c5924349%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
