Today was supposed to be my day...
I needed only a single point of rating to become a grandmaster once again. And I had the best round of my life, taking the 6th place. Perhaps I would have skipped GM entirely and jumped straight into IGM, but to no avail. Of course, I also lost the chance to win a prize.
Sometimes, because of such events, which, unfortunately, happen all too often here on Codeforces, I'm thinking about abandoning CF for good. But I won't. I want everyone reading this to know that we all have bad days and bad rounds, and even if something as unfortunate as what happened to me today happens to you, you shouldn't give up. Your rating and material awards are not as important as your actual skill. And even if you never reach your desired rating or color or even skill level, the experience you'll have gained will last a lifetime. By participating in Codeforces rounds, you're always a winner.
-I
Motivational and optimistic quotes are my favourite! Thanks for making my day!
Nit: CFPredictor says you would not skip GM, you would be lacking 2 rating points to IGM.
Still, congrats to great result!
I call CF rounds "Man vs Machine". Today, for example, the machine won.
Btw, you could've been a few places lower if the round was rated, since some people definitely leave the contest or lose motivation when they know it's unrated. (For example, I went back to masochism with embedded assembler.) Still would've been a great result though.
But that also applies to him, he lost motivation as well, maybe he could score even better.
Maybe, but if he could, maybe many other people could too.
Yeah I spent the second half of the contest flying my drone around the room :D though honestly I wasn't even close to solving G or H.
By participating in Codeforces rounds, you're always a winner.Thanks for this :)