14 October 2005

Mock Competition II

Partly due to yesterday's bad headache, today's Mock Competition is definitely less prepared than the first. Nonetheless, everyone's having a go.

8:45 AM: Due to forgetfulness, I forget that as soon as people log in, the problem names are available.

8:51 AM: Competition begins.

9:22 AM (269 minutes remain): First submission. LCS should be a gimme.

10:06 AM (225 minutes remain): Came back from buying C2 and candy. A second hit from Booroonggoo, this time Language Cardinality.

10:30 AM (201 minutes remaining): Two more tries from two other teams for LCS. Weird how they get the samples right and the test data wrong.

11:30 AM (141 minutes remaining): A lot of action. Very cold here. One correct submission by Decided. Confusion with History Grading.

11:55 AM (116 minutes remaining): More action. Artistic Engineers get the Minimum Transport Cost. Roger tries Theseus, and again, and again, and again, and LCS.

12:21 PM (80 minutes remaining): Ruckus over History Grading earlier. I wonder why? It is kind of ambiguously stated, but there is only one way to interpret the instructions to get the sample dialogue.

12:46 PM (65 minutes remaining): Another flurry of submissions---no go. Booroonggoo trying both History and Theseus, Roger doing both Theseus and LCS.

1:08 PM (43 minutes remaining): Quiet on the homefront.

1:20 PM (31 minutes remaining): Wet gets Theseus. Up to the extent I'm testing, though. Booroonggoo tries Useless, but gets negative. Whoops.

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