Today after the round #707 I managed to get Time Limit Exceeded on problem B. Surprisingly, when I resubmitted after system tests, and got AC fitting tightly into the TL.
So I resubmitted $$$5$$$ more times. Each one got Accepted, too.
It's not a first time this happens. During the round #683, when I was among writers team, in one of the problems someone managed to get TLE on system tests even though we had pretests=tests.
Did you also experience something similar? Any idea what causes the judge to become slower during the contest? And, most importantly, should it be considered a bug or a feature?
I have experienced similar while solving 1474C - Array Destruction although my solution gave TLE and failed in system tests
Your accepted submissions took 1990ms on average, time limit is 2000ms. Even 0.5% variation in the runtime would lead to TLE in this case.
there was a same situation with bogorodniy in past