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Why do skipped solutions count as fails?
By knight-erraunt, history, 9 years ago, In English

I have been wondering why my solution to problem A from the contest 346 got only 444 points while most of people who submitted it at similar time got ~490 points, I had not submitted failing code. If I understand correctly it is because I double submitted the code and the first submission is counted as a fail? Is there any other explanation? If not why is it so, if I double submitted a correct solution I never got a fail, I reckon it not fair. (though I am happy with my score anyway thus will not cry probably)

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9 years ago, # |
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Be careful: there is 50 points penalty for submission which fails the pretests or resubmission (except failure on the first test, denial of judgement or similar verdicts). "Passed pretests" submission verdict doesn't guarantee that the solution is absolutely correct and it will pass system tests.

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    I thought I stated my case clearly — the first code was not even tested, just marked as 'skipped' and got -50 for it.

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I hate you all — you who downvoted — I did not know something, I TRIED to google it for quite some time, but could not find anything. And instead of help from the community I got -9 contribution, go to hell.

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