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"never submit" strategy: state-of-the-art competitive programming approach by tourist
By peltorator, 4 months ago, In English

Recently at the AtCoder World Tour Finals tourist shared his latest optimal contest strategy development — the so-called "never submit" strategy: an improvement over the "late submit" strategy. You can learn more about it in the following clip from the stream:

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4 months ago, # |
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Well I almost follow the same strategy.

I submit a WA first and then never submit. That works for me.

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    But why? I mean if you solved the problem correctly on your second attempt, then why don't you submit.

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tourist casually doing tourist things

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i love the strategy its ... noob friendly ?? i guess

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I watched this live. We including commentators were wondering when he is going to submit and after submitting WA at E, he came to confession room and revealed this strategy. Everyone was shocked. Pretty funny experience.

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This trivial strategy was discovered by me years ago. Come better next time.

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tourist failed his strategy 10 mins after he came to confession : )

just like I fail my strategy to solve problems.

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This strategy is only meant for rainboy

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after a contest, about half of the participants wish they had employed this strategy

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it's not new... actually I've been using this strategy for a while

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I don't understand what that strategy really mean

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orz

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