> The sort self-importance expressed by the attacker is just awful While I agree that instead of behaving maliciously, the other competitor should have lauded

> The sort self-importance expressed by the attacker is just awful While I agree that instead of behaving maliciously, the other competitor should have lauded their simple yet effective solution, I can imagine the WTF he must have experienced upon discovering their site. I mean think about it, if your team has been spending god knows how long wracking your brains to come up with CV algorithms to solve this stuff, and then you realize the team in the lead isn't even using an algorithm! They are just using a huge amount of people to solve it! Now of course the right reaction to this should be to laugh wholeheartedly and ponder about how a motivated crowd can trump advanced technology. We had a similar WTF moment during Google Code jam 2011. In the qualification rounds, there was a problem Goro Sort[1] and the way the question was written, it appeared to be a very tough problem. Later we discovered that one of our friends solved it with a VERY simple algorithm: just count the number of elements out of place! and it WORKS!! The good part was, instead of being jealous, we did laugh about it and still do