You get placed in the top 40. First thought: "Surely a bronze medal at least".

Result day: Misses bronze by only 0.17 points

Why? Because they decided to take account of only top 2 of the cut off countries, other teams from the same country is invisible to them sadly.

I don't think the current ICO is fair at all. On an usual Olympiads, every team has a fair chance, something I find missing in the ICO. I mean they're already booking 10 seats in the master list for their own country, then only taking top 2 from other countries? How on earth can that be called "fair".

Pro tip: If you really want an ICO medal, just participate under such a country where you're the only team and obviously do quite well in the exam and get the guaranteed medal, something my team missed by just 0.17 points.

Ab_hoga_real_Cumback

Kabir_Khan_SWE both are cheaters but with really different mentalities. One isn't scared to show that he is cheating indeed, and another one is cautious of it. Really sad to see cheaters using LLMs to reach master which is a dream to us newbies but who cares. I pray and hope that they get mid-contest banned next round.