The 2014 Google Code Jam World Finals will be starting in about twenty minutes from now in Los Angeles.
The winner will receive $15,000 and automatic qualification for the 2015 Code Jam finals.
Here is the contest dashboard. We can see the live scoreboard once the contest starts.
Also, interested people can watch the the live stream on YouTube here.
Wish all the participants good luck! May the best man (or woman) win! :)
Feel free to post your predictions about the contest as comments. Let's see who is able to get closest to the actual outcome! ;)
UPD: Contest has started, and Egor currently leads the scoreboard having solved problem A in less than 8 minutes!
UPD: A little more than one hour into the contest. A lot of coders have solved problem B, but kcm1700 is in the lead after solving problem C. tourist hasn't solved these two yet, but he currently occupies 5th place after solving D-small and E-small.
UPD: Two hours into the contest now. hos.lyric has stayed true to his principle of starting with the harder problems; he has solved D-small, E-small, and F-small, and he currently occupies 7th place. There's now an interesting battle between Egor and eatmore at the top of the scoreboard (Egor currently leads by 4 points).
UPD: Three hours down, just one to go! tourist currently tops the scoreboard, but eatmore has the same points as him, and is only two minutes (on penalty) behind him! This battle looks like it will entertain us all the way until the final minute! al13n and Egor, in 3rd and 4th place respectively, are also equal on points, but al13n is about five minutes (again on penalty) ahead!
UPD: 45 minutes remaining. As eatmore's E-large has expired the time limit, it looks like tourist is heading for victory. But wait, hos.lyric has suddenly jumped into 3rd place; now if he solves any of D-large, E-large, or F-large, he will go to the top of the scoreboard!
UPD: 30 minutes remaining. The only change is that vepifanov has jumped into 3rd place by solving D-large. Still the top two or hos.lyric look most likely to win it all.
UPD: 20 minutes remaining. dzhulgakov has submitted B-large to take the 4th place and sevenkplus has submitted C-large to take the 5th place. 2nd to 5th positions all have 101 points. But the big news is that tourist has made a submission on E-large and now leads the scoreboard by a commanding 35-point margin!
UPD: 10 minutes remaining. eatmore has solved F-small and probably consolidated 2nd place. But the judges say that this solution could possibly work on F-large, so let's wait to see if he submits it there as well! Now I think it's only between tourist and eatmore!
UPD: 5 minutes remaining. eatmore has submitted F-large and has taken the lead over tourist! But wait, ivan.metelsky has suddenly submitted both F-small and F-large to take the second place! This means that tourist is in third now.
UPD: CONTEST HAS FINISHED! The current positions (assuming everybody passes system tests on all large inputs) are:
- eatmore — 165 points
- ivan.metelsky — 137 points
- tourist — 136 points
- vepifanov — 101 points
- dzhulgakov — 101 points
- sevenkplus — 101 points
- Romka — 101 points
- iwiwi — 101 points
UPD: The final results are announced! Many congratulations to tourist for winning the big prize! :)
UPD: The final scoreboard is now available here. The top 7 are:
- tourist — 136 points
- eatmore — 123 points (failed F-large)
- sevenkplus — 101 points
- ivan.metelsky — 95 points (failed F-large)
- al13n — 89 points
- Egor — 89 points
- kcm1700 — 89 points
Why isn't tourist taking part in the competetion ?
Edit: My bad , He is taking part .
He is.
he is taking part. he has just solved problem A after about 32 minutes.
I think, Gennady will do the job and win this contest.
it seems tourist heard you. he is now leading the scoreboard. ;)
EDIT: he is now fourth. ;)
EDIT: he is now back to first! :D
EDIT: contest is finished! he is currently in third place. :/
EDIT: tourist is the 2014 GCJ champion! what a prediction by fake_delete_account! :D
Ok, then I'll say go ahead, hos.lyric! — maybe he will hear me, too:)
Was funny to hear "topcoder high school" among tourist's recent successful contests.
Does anyone knows how long it will take for the final standings?
Judging of large inputs has begun.
tourist is the Google Code Jam 2014 World Champion!!
tourist wins! Who could have seen that coming? :P
Congratulations to tourist. Now I have no doubts that he's the best ever, unbelievable. People like him exists only once per generation.
Still waiting for the ability to submit solutions to the problems... :/
Where can one view the final standings? The dashboard still says that tourist is 3rd.
Check their facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/googlecodejam?fref=nf
where can we view the final scoreboard? does anyone know?
The final scoreboard is finally updated
https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/7214486/scoreboard?c=7214486
tourist makes all those contests boring :P.
The contest wasn't boring at all if you'd watched the stream online. It wasn't clear who's the winner til the end.
I know, I know, but frankly saying I would like to see someone other than Gennady winning some onsite event :P. It's not like that I don't like him, but other people are also good coders and they deserve winning something :D.
tourist has participated in four onsite finals in 2014, and he has won all of them.
but i predict that Petr or hos.lyric (if his usual approach of opening 1000-pointer first doesn't backfire) will win TCO 2014. we will see. :)
He still has some more achievements to obtain in future:) tourist won all these personal onsite finals, but in Challenge 24 2014 his team took second place:)
Being beaten by no other people than Poles :) (mainly from University of Warsaw).
so much for my prediction. :/
well, atleast i was able to attend the TCO14 onsite finals in person. :)
here is a photo of Endagorion, tourist, Petr, and me (i will post more in a few days).
Some guy should win IOI for four times and tourist will never beat it. One day it will happen.
Also, don't forget that Petr has family and 40h/week job, he doesn't practice regulary, don't attend PTZ training camps, etc, while he still seems to be a bit better in solving really difficult problems. rng_58 and a couple of other Japanese guys are also pretty strong in solving hard problems. So, they are my heroes :)
If Chinese students were allowed to participate in IOI multiple times, that record could be beaten :p However after 2005(?) Chinese informatics olympiad committee set up a rule that anyone are allowed to participate in IOI at most once, and that's why you can't see Chinese names in IOI Hall of Fame although China is the strongest team in IOI with no doubt.
Even if Chinese gold medalists are allowed to compete multiple times, it will be a hard-to-beat achievement anyway.
I never doubt the fact that China team usually wins 4 golds at IOI and some would have made their way to Hall of Fame if they had participated more than once. But for an individual to win it 4 times (likely in a row), it just seems to be impossible. tourist's 2nd place in his last year has really showed us how tough it is even when you are the most favorite one to win.
I feel that after he has raised the bar, people tends to overly expect contestants to perform extraordinarily. For me, scott_wu is such another brilliant guy out there and he has a relatively high chance to win it back to back next year. If he manages to do so, it's only the 4th time that one wins multiple times in the IOI's history.
I've heard that scott_wu is planning to graduate high school and won't be competing next year.
speaking of Chinese students, anyone knows why YuukaKazami (despite finishing 13th in Round 3) didn't take part in GCJ finals?
This is what he posted in facebook: "Being checked and can't go to GCJ onsite.... what a sad story...". yeputons asked "What does 'checked' mean in this context?" and someone replied "Administrative Processing during US visa application, usually takes 4 weeks." I guess that means he didn't get the visa.
That's sad. The time to get the visa was indeed incredibly strict, I just barely made it. I wish they'd given us more time seeing as the WF was in the US...
Of course, he had to win!
tourist is Magic!
My little contest: tourist is magic!
Congrats Tourist.