17 Legends and me.

Wow, rng_58, hisashiburi! BTW, orz maroonrk for setting all the problems!

I think it's totally unfair to add the number of attending the finals to the points. As we know, it's very hard for top players to solve even 1 or more problems than each other. So their rank depends usually on penalty. Rank should react player's real true level, but I don't think it will now. For example tourist can arbitrary submit solutions because he gets the most init points and he don't need to worry about the penalty. And also, it's unfair to new players like jiangly, who is still in college and don't have time to attend final than others already graduated.. So I suggest delete this rule. And do something else to reward these finalist. And for the finalist, I think they just want to have fun equally in contest.

Considering that the special rules will affect strategies of participants, the Finals itself is unrated.

But now the contest page is still showing

Rated Range: 2000 — inf

should've atleast mentioned that there will be a livestream :/ https://www.youtube.com/live/b55sFRsz3ow?si=uCQeQ2xCUMubmBSF

Alternative solution of B:

for each loop in the permutation, find the median number and divide the permutation into some (a[i]>median or a[i]<median) segments, then divide and conquer.

Kind of hard to implement but easy to find out :P

Is the solution for B unique (if it is one big cycle)? I copied code from various submissions and ran on a few tests and it seems like the outputs are all the same.

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Maybe the rated range should be 2800+ (xd

Quite fascinatingly, at the end, most of the positions in final standings are unaffected by the additional points given for number of times participants qualified. Except between Petr and Um_nik. And jqdai0815 who would be at position 11th instead of 8th according to time penalty if not for the 2 extra points he had. It would still likely have affected participants strategies in the contest.

Just curious, how hard to get into that room?