Hi All,
This is the commentary of Snackdown finals.
Overall onsite ranking can be seen here.
Overall finals ranking can be seen here.
Also, mirror ranks can be seen here.
You can check codechef blog to check interviews of many top teams in which they have answered quite interesting and important questions about their preparations, motivation, mistakes etc. I think it will be quite interesting to read that.
4:09 PM Pic Request by NeverSayNever
Team logicmonks from Google consisting of Akashdeep Nain (akashdeep) and Nishant.
4:08 PM Team rake_compress consisting of tourist and qwerty787788 has too solved the 8th problem. It is getting quite interesting. First and second team positions have only 7 minutes penalty difference. :)
4:05 PM Team Team aapppppppiii consists of jqdai0815 and xyz111 submitted their 8th problem just now and gain a solid lead of 1 problem.
4:00 PM Team bandb from IITH is at currently 9th position. Their team has darkshadows and Nikhil.
3:58 PM Top 5 teams from the India are
- ancalagon from IIT Bombay
- smack_down from Tower Research
- logicmonks_ from Google
- sandy_team from IIT Bombay
- believe_iiith from IIITH
3:55 PM Top 5 teams have solved 7 problems each. There are total 3 problems which are yet to be solved by anybody. Let's see in the next upcoming hours :)
3:52 PM
Team scc_snack15 from BITS Pilani consisting of Ankul Sareen (akulsareen) and Pranet Verma( pranet)
3:48 PM From onsite contest point of view, there are not much changes in top 5-6 rankings.
3:44 PM Team from my own institute IIT Kanpur, naive_coders having triveni and sshekh currently at position 6th position.
3:39 PM Currently, teams rake_compress and Havka-papstvo are trying to solve problem RAMSINSP. Let's see what happens in few hours !! If rake_compress solves this problem, then they can be at top position.
3:33 PM Egor and pashka's team Havka-papstvo has solved 5 problems and currently at 10th position.
3:23 PM Total 8 problems have been solved. kut_team1_sd from DPRK is the only team to solve BUGATACK problem. Their team consists of kutengine and SuRyong Kim. They have solved total 5 problems. It would be quite nice too see how they solve problems in next few hours.
3:15 PM Now team aapppppppiii and rake_compress are really close with 1st and 2nd positions respectively. One has penalty of 7:25 whereas other has 7:28. Just 3 minutes difference. Both have solved same problems. So, let us see which one is able to find next problem to solve fast :)
3:10 PM There has been a flurry of submissions now in onsite round, top 3 teams have solved 4 problems. Their order has not been changed yet.
3:05 PM
Here is the team from DPS Dwarka, its members (Rajat De and Aditya Popali) has been participants of IOITC camp (training camp for IOI in India).
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3:00 PM Summary of the contest till now
Almost all onsite teams (24 out of 25 teams) have solved at least one problem.
Total 7 problems have been solved.
Top Indian team ancalagon has solved 4 problems whereas in overall ranking team aapppppppiii has solved whopping total 7 problems which is leading the ranking almost during the entire duration of contest.
2:51 PM Team aapppppppiii consists of jqdai0815 and xyz111. It will be really interesting to see these guys participating in upcoming ICPC world finals. 2nd, 3rd and 4th ranked teams have famous participants who have achieved a big success in programming contests :)
2:45PM Team rake_compress consisting of tourist and qwerty787788 from ITMO has solved the problem SHUFFLE2 after 2 wrong attempts. They are still at second position.
Team aapppppppiii from Tsinghua is still leading the contest. Next few upcoming hours will be worth watching :)
Teams from NTU are currently at 3rd and 4th positions.
Team ench_mango is at 3rd position. It consists of peter50216 and kelvin.
Team dreamoon_shik is at 4th position. It consists of dreamoon_love_AA and Shik as their name suggests.
2:40 PM Team sandy_team consisting of Sai Sandeep from IIT Bombay.
2:38 PM Team rake_compress consisting of tourist and qwerty787788 from ITMO is currently struggling in the problem SHUFFLE2.
2:36 PM Youngest team consisting of a single team member Mriganka has solved one problem.
2:30 PM Team believe_iiith from IITH consisting of pulkitg10 and viv001 currently at third position in onsite contest
2:28 PM In online mirror, jenabkhan is leading with solving two problems. Participation is slightly less in the mirror round. Hope to see more participation in upcoming time.
2:26PM
Total 21 teams have solved at least problem in onsite contest. There are 4 more teams to solve at least one problem.
2:15 PM: Team smack_down ranked 2 in onsite contest.
Smit Hinsu and Siddharth Bora from Tower Research Captial
2:13 PM: Team ancalagon leading the onsite ranking.
Balajiganapathi and Deepa Panwar from IIT Bombay
2:11 PM: aapppppppiii and rake_compress are having a pretty close competition with each other. rake_compress is just having 1 extra penalty points. There are two problems which are solved by only one of the teams. So, we hope to see ranking changes in next few hours or so.
2:08 PM: Currently total 6 problems have been solved. There are still 5 problems to be solved.
2:04 PM: Currently the ranking has not changed much. Team from google, logicmonks_ has come to third place replacing believe_iiith which has been an ICPC world finals team from India. Team logicmonks_ consists of Akashdeep Nain and Nishant Redkar.
2:00 PM: The finals mirror contest has been started. Let us see how it unfolds :)
1:58 PM, Team ancalagon is leading the onsite contest from the beginning of the contest. Total 14 teams has solved at least some problem in first hour. So, there are still 11 teams remaining to solve anything.
We will post images of participants here in few minutes :)
1:55 PM Please note that the finals mirror will start in 5 minutes. You have some information about number of solved problems with you already :) Bring it on !! Happy programming to all.
1:47 PM: Team aapppppppiii from Tsinghua is currently leading the scoreboard. rake_compress is currently ranked 2. It would be interesting to see what folds in few upcoming hours.
1:44 PM: Current online finals rankings
rake_compress consisting of tourist and qwerty787788 from ITMO (Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics).
two_captains from Yandex consisting of Mikhail Tikhomirov and Alexander Mashrabov
sequoia consisting of Alexander and Alexey Dmitriev from Moscow Institute of Physics
dreamoon_shik consisting of dreamoon_love_AA from National Taiwan University.
1:40 PM: Currently total 4 problems have been solved by at least one team ANDMAT, WMIS, TENNIS, NICENESS.
1:39 PM: Team sandy_team is now on top of onsite contest. The team consists of Sai Sandeep from IIT Bombay.
1:37 PM: team ancalagon is on fire. It has solved 2 problems to currently lead the onsite finals.
1:30 PM: It's been half an hour after the contest has started.
Currently, team rake_compress consisting of [[user:tourist] and qwerty787788 is leading with solving three problems.
From the onsite contest, team ancalagon consisting of Balajiganapathi and Deepa Panwar from IIT Bombay is leading with solving one problem.
