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Insomnia — Overnight Programming Contest
By sharat1105, 12 years ago, In English

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee presents night long algorithmic programming contest INSOMNIA. The contest starts at 2100 IST on 15 March and will last for 12 hours.

Team Registrations are OPEN! A team of at most 2 members can be formed.

Visit insomnia.cognizance.org.in for more details.

Prizes worth INR 35,000 to be won!!

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How to register in insomina? I clicked on Register and filled in the form, then chose Register, but it showed a picture which was error.

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    There was some issue which has been rectified. Try reloading the page(Ctrl+F5) a couple of times.

    Let us know if you face any other issues @ insomnia2k13@gmail.com

    If you do not have a cognizance id then register yourself at here

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Let's clarify in advance — who is eligible for prizes?

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    Everyone is eligible for prizes.

    Hope to see you participate in the event.

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Will event start in 2 hours (as time in announcemnt suggests) or in 2:30, as timer on event page suggests?

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I dont understand how this system works. I tried to write code and pressed 'Submit solution', I also tried to upload code. But nothing changed ! And now button 'Submit solution' is unable to me at all, lol.

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    If you are copying the code from your editor and pasting it into our online editor then just add a space character in your code and you will be able to submit it.

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Is the contest extended by 15 mins ??

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Too bad — the contest is being postponed. Why?

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    The contest will start at 10pm IST. You won't be disappointed this time.

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the submit link is not active and when i type something in the editor it becomes active but when i click it nothing happens.

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My submission seems to be in running state indefenetly, can you check?

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    Mine too... In addition, I can not submit for BGROW (it says "You have not submitted any solutions for this problem")

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This system is the worst I've ever seen...

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And now it is "This website is offline" :(

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If I open code of my submission #2591 (which got compilation error) I can see someone's else c++ code

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    Also if I open any other my submission it contains some weird javascript here and there

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    At the same time I'm getting WA on 3 tasks, each of them I sure is solved correctly

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      12 years ago, # ^ |
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      We made an announcement to resubmit solutions for the problem VIRUS. And the other two problems which you are talking about, we had a close look at your solution and you were actually failing on at least one of our test files.

      Do read the editorials which we have posted and let us know if you are still facing issues.

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I seriously have mixed feelings about this contest.

The problems were of appropriate difficulties (the one with counting shortest paths on a grid with blocked off junctions appeared in Slovak national OI, labeled as 'hard', a few years ago), and were interesting. Also, I like the idea of a contest set specifically at night.

On the other hand, the technical issues were severe. There were many eternally pending solutions, maybe the testing system broke down? Also, there were some inaccuracies in the problem descriptions (like zeroes in matrices in problem LPGAME).

I believe that without those difficulties, the contest would've been much more enjoyable. But I still hope to solve the remaining problems for practice later.

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    Yes, we faced many technical issues during the contest. We will try our best to not let such incidents effect the quality of contest from next year. Its great to hear that you liked the problem set.

    Regarding the problem LPGAME. The zeroes have no impact on the result so we just dropped them. It was clearly mentioned in the problem statement that the value in each cell would be between 1 and 9(both inclusive).

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I still have no idea why my solution for LPGAME got Time Limit Exceeded. It is the same as the intended one in the editorial and takes only 0.5s to run the maximum possible test on my own computer. I must have been missing some corner cases...

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Where can I get the editorial of the contest? I am really looking forward to reading it. The problems are nice and hard. Thank you very much!

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