Today, Bangkok regional 2014 was finished. Previously I wrote a blog post regarding the contest, but I accidently deleted it when I was trying to edit it..
So I'm posting the result here if anyone is interested:
- AAA (NTU, Singapore) con_nha_ngheo, ddldyj237, sillyboy
- Alacrity (NUS, Singapore) flashmt, giongto35, RetiredKid
- TaiDaJiaYou (NTU, Taiwan)
- Java# (VNU, Vietnam) net12k44, Aquacloud, ntit_co1
- DCM (NUS, Singapore) infrmtcs, rais.fathin38, zeulb
- .NET (VNU, Vietnam) fpvyzv600, tsunayoshi, meodorewan
- Sanity’s Eclipse (SJTU, China)
Amongst top 7, there are 13 people from Vietnam. Congratz guys! :)
Congratz to you all :) just to hearing how your guy cheering each others during result announcements, this regional seem like your reunion lol.
I would like to write out some expected and unexpected happening during the contests.
UPD: If you have any comment about problem sets or our organizing, please let's us know. I want to see some feedback too
Everyone I know have this same comment: Why did you guys shuffle the problems on scoreboard? And why do you not answer the correct order to participants? This never happens in any regional, and affected performance of many teams. I thought this was an unexpected behaviour of the scoreboard, until I see the following comment in JavaScript code:
WHY?
Other than this, I think everything else was smooth :)
Okay, first, I have to say that I'm not the decider. AFAIK, every contests held by us (Chulalongkorn Univ.), done this for a while. Since this is our first regional, it is normal that foreigner team don't know this. And our Prof. said that there're no rule to prevent us from doing this(I believe we do talk to Asia director). So it's as you see.
This might become practical or get rid, we don't know.
But if someone personally ask me which way do I prefer, I prefer not to hide the order as well.
Of course, I'm not putting the blame on you. I'm just hoping you can pass our comments to those who make decisions. If things do not change, this should be announced before the contest.
And another thing, the way this "feature" was implemented is stupid. You can easily find out which problem is which, if you know basic JavaScript. This creates unfair advantage to some teams.
I will do it. Thanks for your feedback :)
Is there any editorial/ discussion to this contest? The links at baylor page as well as some blog links that appears in google search are not working
I just found this blog post because of the recent Thailand regional post :)
Thanks for the comments during the contest! Since almost everything from this regional had been deleted quite long time ago, it's hard for us to recall what happened during that contest.
I was in that contest! This is my team: https://mirror.codeforces.com/team/6065