ACM ICPC Kharagpur Onsite 2015

What should I say about this ?
It was a complete blunder . A BIG blunder . Everything was ok, we solved 3 out of 10 questions too still it was a blunder.

We got Disqualified. We 3 people were taking lunch after the contest and I got a phone call that please come in the computer lab . I asked the person on call, what is the reason for this? what happened ? He told that its very urgent so please come fast. The news was that we got disqualified and the reason was that as we had already participated in 2 regionals this year . We were not eligible to appear for this one but due to delay by baylor officials they couldn't inform us earlier .

Whole story -

We applied to all the regionals Amritapuri,Kanpur,Kharagpur .We made Demand Draft for Amritapuri and sent it . We participated in the online round we got selected for it but we didn't go for onsite .
For Kanpur, due to our mid semester examinations and some other problems we didn't even send D.D. for it.
Lastly, we filled for Kharagpur and we sent the D.D.

The reason which the Kharagpur officials gave for disqualification was that we had already participated in 2 regionals in the current year so, we were not allowed for further participation. We tried to make them clear that for Kanpur we didn't even send D.D. so they shouldn't count it as a participation but they said they got a mail from baylor that we have been disqualified based on strict rules so nothing can be changed and this decision is final.

Aftermath -

Its december again. Just one year back I started my programming journey and I learned a lot by doing competitive programming. Right now I am not feeling good or you can say not in a mood to continue competitive programming. I am in search of something else. Something like software development or application development.

So, is this the end of my competitive programming career?
Yes ?

Is this the end of my programming career ?
Definitely Not

Will I be able to become a good programmer ?
Only time will tell.

In past 4 months I learned a lot about myself and what all things I like and dislike. I do things which I truly like and I don't like being captured in a stereotypical image.
Breaking it for me and myself .

The journey is still on !

ICPC Drama

This time it was better.A lot better than before . I am talking about ICPC Kharagpur regionals.

We missed the original contest which was scheduled on Oct 18 due to our negligence but god gave us another chance and we took it .

We were having our lab during the contest hours and we decided to leave the lab 1 hour before to participate in the contest. Everything went well and we reached our hostel well before time.

I was having headache that day but still I wanted to help my team every possible way. I decided to give my 100%.

I went to Sudharsan's room around 10 minutes before the starting of the contest . He was having butterfly in his stomach . He was waiting for this contest desperately.

The clock ticked 6 and contest started. I opened a problem and found out that it was very easy.Without wasting time I started coding it meanwhile my friends opened different problems by the time I was debugging my code Sudharsan asked me if he should code my problem I said yes to him but I didn't stop coding and made the program before him . Then I called him to give some test cases and then submit . He gave around 15-20 test cases and it was working fine and we decided to submit it but there was a problem . I was logged out due to some reason and we were getting error "Access denied" it was so much frustrating.

Then I coded the same solution on his laptop to submit. I got compilation error due to mishandling the variable names (I used the same names I used in my original program :P ) This whole process costed us 10 more minutes but we got AC without any penalty. 

By this time we were 2nd in our college as the other team submitted the solution just 20 seconds before us.

Meanwhile Prajval (cool dude) came up with a solution to the second problem. We were so happy but I saw a basic flaw in the program I made a test case where his code was failing.We concluded that this problem is based on graphs . Sudharsan was practicing graphs specifically so he took the responsibility to code it . Meanwhile I was making test cases where our code may fail. After 50 minutes we were ready for our second submission. 

We got AC in our first go and that sealed our way to the Kharagpur regional.
We were ranked 126/440 teams and 43 out of 100 teams they have selected for the onsite.

We are now planning to go for Kharagpur regional . The onsite contest is on Dec 7 . Lets see what happens in the real arena.