> most of our systems are designed to reward and reinforce the superficial achievement at the expense of the real contribution. No one cares about your competi

> most of our systems are designed to reward and reinforce the superficial achievement at the expense of the real contribution. No one cares about your competition results after you start publishing papers, so not really. So if you publish shit papers it doesn't matter how well you did on competitions, you will never get a good job in academia (or anywhere else for that matter unless you learn a useful skill like programming).