The World Has A New SnackDown Champion!

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Hello there! After a whole four months and just an extra few days, we finally have our new SnackDown Champion! With more than 75k+ registration this year, this edition was a bit more special to us as well! It was the first-ever virtual SnackDown and the first-ever one where coders had to participate individually and not in a team contest! Now let’s delve into a quick recap and know what turned around the rank list in the last few minutes as well! Shall we? 

SnackDown 2021 Registrations | September 1st to October 19th, 2021

The registrations officially opened on September 2, 2021, and from then on the coders registering for the event were increasing at a constant pace, and then two days before the registration closed bam! It broke all the records, and finally, we closed the registration on October 20, when 75431 (to be precise), coders registered for this mega event.

The very first round; the Qualifier Round | from 15th Oct – 20th Oct, 2021 

Lasting for a duration of a whole 4 days, the Qualifier round was the stepping stone for all the 38k+ participants who tried their hand in this round. This round consisted of five questions, and the contestants had the leisure of 96 hours to solve at least one of these and qualify for the next round. The Lucky Number quickly became the most loved, and of course, the luckiest problem for almost everyone with more than 36k submissions in total. The Prefix as a substring question gave a hard time to all, with only 12.34% accuracy, and even our admins ranked them as the most challenging problem in the set. 36k+ coders swiftly progressed to the next round, and karolis_kuska from Google.Inc made it to the top with a perfect score of 5!

Round 1A and 1B | 21st Oct – 31st Oct 2021

Both rounds 1A and 1B served as the coder’s ticket to the pre-elimination round. With more than 36k+ coders attempting round 1A, all they had to do was solve at least four questions amongst the six to get going to the pre-elimination round. And after a battle of 4 days, we saw more than 5k programmers directly make their way to the Pre-elimination round, while the rest had yet again one more chance to redeem their ticket to the next round. Here, in Round 1B, the qualification criteria was a bit different from the previous one. They had to solve a minimum of 3 problems and also finish with a rank less than or equal to 1500. We saw nearly 3k contenders who met these criteria, thereby clearing round 1B and inching one step closer to the Finale. 

The battle of coders in Pre-Elimination, and Elimination rounds | 21st Nov – 5th Dec, 2021

As the battle for the Golden crown intensified, we saw a total of 2.9k coders out of the 9k qualified ones try their hand at the challenging questions in the Pre-Elimination round. The Chef served the coders a platter of seven problems, and we had more than 13k successful submissions from them. Among these coders, Benjamin Qi, aka b524, was the first to solve all the problems in under 90 minutes! 

Moving on to the Finalists’ deciding round, we saw more than 300 coders tighten the ropes, and oh boy! They sure did give their best shot! The round lasted for 3 hours; maroonrk claimed his throne in this round by solving all but one problem in 2 hours, 36 minutes. Following him, we had b524 and gennady korotkevich claim their place in the top 3 as well. 

And the SnackDown 2021 Finals! | 9th January, 2022

As the day we eagerly waited for four months finally dawned, the Grand SnackDown 2021 Finale; we saw all our 60 Finalists join us for some events and, of course, the most crucial 4 hours of coding! The four hours of intense coding battle helped The Chef decide who would take home the coveted title and the Golden Trophy. Mingyang Deng, aka peehs_moorhsum, solved three problems thirty minutes into the contest. maroonrk was the first coder to get AC, but he sure did make a terrific comeback by solving two problems in 6 minutes! At half time we had b524 at first place with 5 ACs. CLIMBINGRANK and BAKERY were the unsolved problem and remained of the same status till the very end. 

The challenge finally wrapped at 10:30 PM, and at 11 PM Ashish Gupta and Kamil Debrowski announced the new SnackDown champion! SnackDown ‘21 finally had a claimant to the crown and prize money of $ 10,000! Mingyang Deng, a.k.a, peehs_moorhsum rose to the very glory, and is now the new SnackDown Champion of the world!

SnackDown legend and previous champion Gennady Korotkevich finished second place in the SnackDown ‘21 Finale and took home a whopping amount of $7500. Benjamin Qi, a.k.a, b524 bagged the third rank on the SnackDown ‘21 Finals and claimed a cash prize of $ 5,000! Apart from these programming minds, Ritu Kumar Singh from Delhi Public School, Bokaro, and Tran Xuan Bach claimed first and second place in the school student category! 

Well now that we have the new SnackDown Champion, let’s wait until next year or so, to know who will take home the coveted title next year!

Until then, as we say, code your heart out!

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