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The main problem wasn't the fact that rules were not stated correctly or that people didn't read them (at least when i started it, it was clear that you just ha
by drtse4 16y ago
The main problem wasn't the fact that rules were not stated correctly or that people didn't read them (at least when i started it, it was clear that you just had 6 minutes to generate the output after downloading the input file, make sense imho), it was the shoddy implementation of the site and lack of care on things like test output (missing lines, typos...).
I did it on a sunday afternoon, not having anything better to do, but just the fact that when uploading the results the top list didn't get updated... was chrome fault? was my output for those dead-easy problems wrong? Cmon, this issues should have been caught during the testing phase of this webapp.
Next time, i suggest to just open a contest on topcoder...