IMPORTANT: June Contest Problem Deletion

Posted by anup on June 3rd, 2010 Filed in Announcement, Contests View Comments

We regretfully inform you that the contest problem, Stable Marriage, seems to be identical to an existing problem in another contest; the solution to which is publicly available. For this reason we have removed the problem from the contest. We are working on coming up with the best solution to the situation and will keep you posted on our next steps. We once again apologize for this undesirable situation.

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  • Chris Narrikkattu

    And just as I had made my solution fast enough…darn. Stable Marriage was a very good problem too.If you have a replacement problem ready, now would be the time to use it. Or even a second tie-breaker problem would be nice. In fact, a cool idea for a contest would be having all 5 problems be of tie-breaking type for a 2 or 3 week contest.

  • Chris Narrikkattu

    And just as I had made my solution fast enough…darn. Stable Marriage was a very good problem too.

    If you have a replacement problem ready, now would be the time to use it. Or even a second tie-breaker problem would be nice. In fact, a cool idea for a contest would be having all 5 problems be of tie-breaking type for a 2 or 3 week contest.

  • Guest

    No way; more than one tiebreaker would be a very bad idea. There would be no way to scale the scoring so that both problems receive near-identical scores; you would always end up with the case where one tiebreaker problem dominated the rest, meaning all you would need to do is get a decent solution to the other tiebreaker, and the winner of the more important one would work. Thus making all but one tiebreaker completely pointless. Please don't do that.

  • Guest

    No way; more than one tiebreaker would be a very bad idea. There would be no way to scale the scoring so that both problems receive near-identical scores; you would always end up with the case where one tiebreaker problem dominated the rest, meaning all you would need to do is get a decent solution to the other tiebreaker, and the winner of the more important one would work. Thus making all but one tiebreaker completely pointless. Please don't do that.

  • Arunabh

    Guys can we have that problem in our practice list.I would love to solve that one, I was in between when it got unlisted.Thanks,Arunabh

  • Arunabh

    Guys can we have that problem in our practice list.
    I would love to solve that one, I was in between when it got unlisted.

    Thanks,
    Arunabh

  • Stefan Kyznetsov

    Lot of interesting things going to happen here, please bookmark it :)
    http://bit.ly/brj4c3

  • Stefan Kyznetsov

    Lot of interesting things going to happen here, please bookmark it :) http://bit.ly/brj4c3

  • Rajivka

    Is this Problem available in Practice Section? I see some Stable Marriage problem in practice section but I think the problem statement is different.As I had already solved this problem before I come to know that this has been deleted, I would like to test my solution. If you can put this exact problem in practice section, it would be great.

  • Rajivka

    Is this Problem available in Practice Section? I see some Stable Marriage problem in practice section but I think the problem statement is different.

    As I had already solved this problem before I come to know that this has been deleted, I would like to test my solution. If you can put this exact problem in practice section, it would be great.

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