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Apr 2005

One has to think you know. How to prepare a conteste where tomek will not win.
Probably there should be some ironman seeding here wink
Or maybe we will just give the problems to other users few hours/days earlier.

More seriously (but only a little), I heard that the problems have to meet some criteria like
(looking as for a few czajka*hour problems = not to easy)
just because you will otherwise get bored smile

The other point is that it was pretty sure zebra will be still on the plate wink
kfas

Na, the last ten days were simply a bit of a dead period for us, spent planning the new site (and many other things as well...). That's why most things were delayed, for which I once again apologise.

As for "inventing" tough problems -- well, it is challenging, but I couldn't say that it causes delays as such. Preparing texts & test data requires more time, really smile.

Anyway, it can't be denied that the final problemsets arouse less interest than the previous ones. This is fairly normal in the league system (although the shortcomings on our part may also be a factor). To avoid both these problems, future editions of the league will most likely consist of disjoint problemsets, each with its own little prizes, etc., with perhaps an additional prize for the winners in the overall standings.

4 years later

i właśnie za takie błędy nie dostaje AC neutral_face ... Naprawione