Spoiler: I got a positive score 👍
Score: 421 (distribution is like 333 / 26 / 62)
I think I performed okay in this contest, at first I thought that 421 was pretty good but turned out it’s probably because p1 was very very easy (I thought so too). The thing is I worshipped CodeTiger before contest and got one problem, so surely if I worshipped a bit more I would’ve gotten 2…
But the thing is many people unfortunately skipped p1 in the beginning (like me). I only went back to look at p1 (and solve it after like 30 minutes) because I was so desparate with my sub 100 score.
I still don’t know why I didn’t get subtask 2 for problem 2 though, will probably have to wait until sunday when they release the testcases and stuff to find out. I made the right observation, but still couldn’t manage to solve even the subtask 😭
I hope to camp this year, although that seems pretty much impossible considering my skill. But I’ve heard that they considered improvement arcs so hopefully 767 in gold –> 421 in plat is good enough. I guess I’ll have to get lucky in two more contests, or maybe get extremely lucky in open.
MITIT also happened recently, we were CodeTiger ORZ ORZ ORZ so we got first in hs beginner and second in overall beginner. Kind of sold for not being able to do p8 and p9, but a 900 isn’t really that different from a 735 as long as we got first place I guess
Also just realized that AIME is next week, and I forgot to do any OTIS 💀
And I made a manifold market lol
https://manifold.markets/C0DET1GER/will-i-make-usaco-camp-in-2025?play=true
buy no for free mana.