Return of the Aztecs: from the problemsetters' desk

[the Aztecs]

Hi,

We'd like to thank all the contestants who participated in our contest today. Congratulations to the winning team "A D A". They've really got us worried when they solved 8 problems inside 2 hours!! We knew they would surely solve all the problems. We would also like to congratulate the other two teams "Argonauts" and "WishingBone" for solving all the problems.

The problemset had problems of varying difficulty. Here's the summary of the view that the problemsetters had about the problemset:

A - Aztec Knights -- moderately difficult
B - Big Big Real Numbers -- easy, but lengthy to code from the scratch
C - Homer Simpson -- easy
D - How Far? -- easy
E - Parse Tree -- painfully difficult
F - Rigid Circle Packing -- moderate
G - To Carry or not to Carry -- too easy
H - Shifted Coefficient Number System -- moderate
I - Can't be too GREEDY -- moderate
J - Fastest Vs Cheapest -- painfully difficult

We would have suggested the order G, D, C, I, B, F, H, A, J, E

However, we seemed to have wrong idea about problems C, D and A. We apollogize for problem C where the problem statement might have been somewhat confusing to some contestants. We posted one clarification in the message board on that topic. But we were really baffled to see so many wrong answers for problem D and A.

We wanted all the teams to solve at least one problem, problem G almost did that job for us. We also wanted all of the problems to be solved, but we didn't anticipate that one team would solve all the problems. Problem E and J was there to ensure that. Well, that didn't quite save us. But honestly, we're happy to see that we found at least 3 teams who proved us to be wrong.

This was our first contest. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks to the contestants, once again.

Problemsetters:
Tomal, Adil and Sohel

[mbakht]

Congrats to Aztecs for a well organized contest . Though our team performed woefully bad, I still think it was really a good one ....

Looking forward to participate in more such contests organized by you ...

[yahoo]

You have arranged a very good contest. The problem set was good and there was not too much thing to say about that. Waiting for your next contest.

[shahriar_manzoor]

I think last two contests (The Real Programmers' Contest and Return of the Aztecs Contest) were great. Both of them were free from silly mistakes which the monthly contests arranged by me has. It shows only one thing that there is no alternate way to make a contest error free other than writing alternate solutions. I just hope that one day they will have the responsibility to set problems of the all important contest of Bangladesh.

The team Sprinter (Organizer of Real Programmers' Contest) and Aztecs are two very good teams of Bangladesh. It was very nice to see them arrange contests even after failing in recent regional contest. I just want to take this opportunity to request other good teams of this site to come forward and arrange good online contests or at least submit new problems. Without your help it would become impossible in 4/5 months' time to arrange quality contests regularly. I must admit that it is very difficult to organize a contest with all new problems.

I just hope that one day there will be so many problems in this site that we will be able to arrange contest by random selection and even then all the teams will find 80% problems new.

[kzaman010]

Congratulations to the AZTECS. They have done a great job.
From the problemsetters' point of view it is really a difficult
job to make everything error free. Setting problems of new idea is
another dificult job (even for a moderately easy problem). They have
done it in style. Not only that thay added new dimension to
a contest (new getup). It proves only one thing, if there is dedication and
effort nothing is impossible.
Again congrats to 3 L's ( TOMAL, ADIL, SOHEL) for this great job.
Hopefully you will continue it in future.

Md. Kamruzzaman

[Sajid]

ya, it was an eXcillent contest.

TOMAL, ADIL, SOHEL bhaiya, shobai-kei dhonnobad.

[asarefin]

Congratulations to the AZTECS. They have done a great job.
From the problemsetters' point of view it is really a difficult
job to make everything error free. Setting problems of new idea is
another dificult job (even for a moderately easy problem). They have
done it in style. Not only that thay added new dimension to
a contest (new getup). It proves only one thing, if there is dedication and
effort nothing is impossible.
Again congrats to 3 L's ( TOMAL, ADIL, SOHEL) for this great job.
Hopefully you will continue it in future.

Md. Kamruzzaman

Since, Most of the well known problem setters of my country is supporting AZtec. so,... They really have done a better work! But I think it will be much better if we see AZtec programmers do much better in next online/ Real time contests. In fact...they have again proved that Non-BUET people also can do some good works . I wish people of other universities/ Institutions of my beloved country(Bangladesh) may come forward in next, very soon. Best of luck for them!


regards

Ahmed Shamsul Arefin
http://www.acmsolver.tk

[Moni]

Congratulations to the AZTECS. They have done a great job.
From the problemsetters' point of view it is really a difficult
job to make everything error free. Setting problems of new idea is
another dificult job (even for a moderately easy problem). They have
done it in style. Not only that thay added new dimension to
a contest (new getup). It proves only one thing, if there is dedication and
effort nothing is impossible.
Again congrats to 3 L's ( TOMAL, ADIL, SOHEL) for this great job.
Hopefully you will continue it in future.

Md. Kamruzzaman

Since, Most of the well known problem setters of my country is supporting AZtec. so,... They really have done a better work! But I think it will be much better if we see AZtec programmers do much better in next online/ Real time contests. In fact...they have again proved that Non-BUET people also can do some good works . I wish people of other universities/ Institutions of my beloved country(Bangladesh) may come forward in next, very soon. Best of luck for them!


regards

Ahmed Shamsul Arefin
http://www.acmsolver.tk

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http://acm.uva.es/board/viewtopic.php?t=1939&start=15

Welcome to the "Level Two Club"!

[kmhasan]

Thanks to all who have inspired us. We'd try to host as many contests as possible. But we'd like to take some time to ensure that they are error free.

I'd like to give a reply to the the last couple of posts.

Arefin: our team name was NSU Aztecs, not AZtec. In the publication of last regional contest at BUET, some people at the press made a mistake and our team name was printed NSU AZtech. Yours one came quite close compared to that.
We'd not participate in any real time contests as a team. For me it is impossible. We might try to take part in the online contests individually. However, we'd host the contests as a team. A team effort towards hosting a contest goes a long way. I am looking forward to seeing you participate in those contest, rather than supporting what the better problem setters of the country had said.
And I don't see us as a non-BUET team. It's quite odd to find this kind of criteria. A good team should be good compared to the given standards. We don't need to invent new standards to make a team look good.

Moni: I personally believe the level two mark is miles away for me and my team. I don't see it as a milestone, and I'd never notice it when I go past it. What should be more important is that we do what we are required to do.
Regarding to the topic you have posted a link to, I feel very tempted to give a reply. Please note that I am not coaching any team from any university. I did work with the junior teams when I was a contestant of North South. But that was totally voluntary job. It's not good to make a claim without knowing the fact for sure.

Lastly I'd like to quote from Shahriar Manzoor's recent post:

Lastly, I think it is a post for international community. So let's not discuss any country oriented issues here. I think there is a lot of helper in this board. So if you face problems with any problem just post it here and someone must help you. Ofcourse before asking for help just read the previous posts for your answers.

[asarefin]

Arefin: our team name was NSU Aztecs, not AZtec. In the publication of last regional contest at BUET, some people at the press made a mistake and our team name was printed NSU AZtech. Yours one came quite close compared to that

I am sorry, and you are definitely correct about the name "NSU Aztecs". I think, all other cases..should be dropped!

Thank you
Ahmed Shamsul Arefin

[Moni]

Thanks to all who have inspired us. We'd try to host as many contests as possible. But we'd like to take some time to ensure that they are error free.

I'd like to give a reply to the the last couple of posts.

Arefin: our team name was NSU Aztecs, not AZtec. In the publication of last regional contest at BUET, some people at the press made a mistake and our team name was printed NSU AZtech. Yours one came quite close compared to that.
We'd not participate in any real time contests as a team. For me it is impossible. We might try to take part in the online contests individually. However, we'd host the contests as a team. A team effort towards hosting a contest goes a long way. I am looking forward to seeing you participate in those contest, rather than supporting what the better problem setters of the country had said.
And I don't see us as a non-BUET team. It's quite odd to find this kind of criteria. A good team should be good compared to the given standards. We don't need to invent new standards to make a team look good.

Moni: I personally believe the level two mark is miles away for me and my team. I don't see it as a milestone, and I'd never notice it when I go past it. What should be more important is that we do what we are required to do.
Regarding to the topic you have posted a link to, I feel very tempted to give a reply. Please note that I am not coaching any team from any university. I did work with the junior teams when I was a contestant of North South. But that was totally voluntary job. It's not good to make a claim without knowing the fact for sure.

Lastly I'd like to quote from Shahriar Manzoor's recent post:

Lastly, I think it is a post for international community. So let's not discuss any country oriented issues here. I think there is a lot of helper in this board. So if you face problems with any problem just post it here and someone must help you. Ofcourse before asking for help just read the previous posts for your answers.

Hai! If I hurt you I am really sorry for that! I have got a news that you are joining at South East as a teacher. By coach I also meant good teachers like you.

And about the level: Levels are in all area of human life. In countries (3rd world), in films (oscar), in cricket (everybody is not Tendulkar),in football (all can't show the magic of Maradona's feet), in company (Creative Mac is not as commercial as Microsoft), in art (all are not Picasso!), in music (not all bands sing like Beatles) and so so.....................

You must have to think about that! You can't ignore it! Everytime you have to touch a standard and have to pass it for new one! When you don't get a new one you have to set yours as the heighest standard!!!

Good Luck!

[kmhasan]

Congratulations Dr Ghalib Imtyaz Ahmad!! I'm delighted to know about all your expertise. I

[Adrian Kuegel]

Maybe you would soon update it to show that you’re no longer ranked 64th, now you’re ranked 22nd.

Dr Ghalib Imtyaz Ahmad,
Another site needs update, too (http://people.mail2me.com.au/~faruq/su/eng/acm.html ).
Saratov has now 73 problems, and zju has 582.
Some time ago the image with your status of saratov showed also the problem numbers, which are 100, 105 and 115 (http://acm.sgu.ru/teaminfo.php?id=001988 ). You improved your illusion now, nobody would believe 3/3 if number of problems are 100, 105 and 115.
I can't understand why this is neccessary. If you solved so many problems alone in that short time, you don't need to be ashamed that you didn't also solve all problems of saratov and zju, nobody has enough time for that.

[Adrian Kuegel]

Kugel Miah, take it easy bro?????. I am going to be working from next semester so I won't have enough time to improve my ranking very soon.

Ok, I understand that. I don't have the time to improve my ranking at other online judges, too. And I don't expect you to update the site every now and then if new problems are added, I think it is better to write only how many problems you solved, if someone needs more information, he can follow the link.