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Round starts at 14:00 UTC today and 25 participants will advance to final round in Dublin.

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Now I finally feel old. I opened the problem C, and the first thing that came to my mind was "Oh, this problem may be solved with the same idea as in the problem K from NCPC 2010".

Thanks for the contest! Problems B and C were great, problem A made me lose some time on it and it wasn't a pleasant time, and I'm not sure about problem D if it has a solution that does not require lots of coding.

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What were your solutions to problem A? I couldn't think of one.

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26th, my ass.

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Seeing as in 2:08 I was 18th and watching scoreboard for next 22 minutes as I fall to 41st place before judging larges and 36th after was really painful :(. Stupid A xdd

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    This year the number of late submissions was exceptional. Usually we can estimate the cutoff from first AC time. At 40 minutes, I was confident that fast 50 points is enough. The cutoff of 74 points was surprising.

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Editorial is already posted. How unusual for them.

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not so hard solution of D
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    my solution
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    CF was down for a while after GCJ, finally connected :)

    It reminded me your problem from Codechef Lunch.

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To other contest organizers: It is still possible in 2017 to have original and interesting problems in online rounds, huh?

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    Yes, I still see lots of new interesting problems, but the probability of collision is higher now.

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    Does it mean that GCJ succeeded on it or not? As for me, their problems were pretty original (even though I knew the key idea of problem C, but I'm sure this idea is not very popular) for all rounds. Of course, not 100% of the problems were really interesting (today's problem A, for example, or R2's 2sat problem), but overall I liked problemsets of GCJ pretty much among all the contests I participated this year.

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      Yeah, GCJ is known for having good problems every year. AtCoder and TopCoder problems are focused on new ideas instead of known ideas and just time consuming stuff — which should reduce the probability of collisions.

      In many years of solving TopCoder contests can't remember many reused problems. But I can remember that, for example, there was a pretty difficult ICPC World Finals problem some years ago that was exactly the one from old TopCoder.

      I was joking with a friend before some other online contest that if I see any problem having usual "answer these queries efficiently" style I would not participate and surprise — last 3 problems had similar statement :)

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    Not if you have two such contests in a row

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I can't understand why a bridge existence makes a solution impossible to exist in B. Can someone clarify, please? Thanks :)

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    Consider a bridge that connects two components A and B. Define the difference between the ingoing and outgoing edges in the vertex as its value. Suppose that the flow through bridge is non-zero and remove it from graph: the total value of all vertices in A is now different from zero. On the other hand, sum of all values of vertices in a connected component should be zero since each edge is accounted twice with opposite signs, i.e. we can not fix the disbalance in component A. That leads us to contradiction.

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I got 32nd in HackerCup this year, and got 32nd again :(

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Problem B has a very large range. It is known that you can solve it even with range of [-5, 5] (search "nowhere-zero flow" on Wikipedia). A reasonably simple algorithm can do it on range of [-7, 7].