OK, some more comments!
Andrey Mokhov wrote:But as for my team, we thought to make some silly submission as soon as we start contest just to activate our timer. 20 minutes penalty is usually not so important in the final ranklist. So the timing of our team will be almost fair.
There is actually another issue to think about: if you begin later, you have the advantage of immediately seeing which problems are easy, and which are hard. In particular, you can see that, say, a certain problem which looks very simple has 500 WAs and 3 ACs. OK, I'm exaggerating, but nevertheless, that kind of info is a big help, IMO.
Andrey Mokhov wrote:I understand that all this is silly against cheaters but I hope this site is to let fair teams to know their strength and not to protect from cheaters. Who they cheat? Themselves, I guess.
Yes, I'd agree that they cheat themselves. But as Shahriar said, it is easy for you to know your strength, by manually calculating your actual penalty. It seems to me that the purpose of having such a ranklist would be to show
others your strength (since they will not take time to calculate your actual penalty manually, but will probably at least look at the extra ranklist).
Don't get me wrong: I don't think it would be the end of the world to have the third ranklist, but I don't think it is worth the effort that it probably is to implement it. The UVa staff seems to have enough to think about as it is.
I'll be doing the last warmup alone anyway, since my team mates have exams that day. But sure, I wouldn't mind seeing the results of some more teams who are going to Prague.
