If you like Marathons but don't have two weeks to dedicate to participation in a typical match, consider taking a look at the match that will run for 28 hours right before the TCO16 NYC regional event. The coding phase will start on Thursday, June 16 at 8:00 a.m. EDT (in your time zone) and end on Friday, June 17 at Noon EDT (in your time zone). It will be a rated event featuring a somewhat easier than usual problem (I am the writer ;-)) and following the usual Marathon rules (apart from the shorter duration).
And if you happen to live in New York area, consider not only participating in the Marathon but stopping by at the TCO16 NYC regional event at the Google office afterwards: top participants of this match who will be present at the event will get prizes! Nothing as spectacular as a trip to TCO16 finals, I'm afraid, but I hear it's something quite special :-)
Everyone can participate in the match, but to get the prize you have to be present at the NYC regional event.
UPD: NYC Lightning Round ColorCapture is now live.
Hey so does anybody have any updates on the event? Also what were the prizes, particularly for the SRM and who got them? I went to the onsite event but could only stay for a bit, need to know how much I need to regret not being able to compete, and if I had any realistic chance of winning any prizes :)
I think the closing reception is starting about now, so no results yet. Somebody will write a blog post about it later, I hope they'll mention the prizes, I'm also curious :-)
When will the system tests results be available?
Marathon results
Regional event recap
Sweet and yeah Google's hospitality was awesome, the balconies on the 11th floor are amazing. Also for the record was considering skipping work to compete in this, had a hard time estimating what the prizes would be, the fact that they were Google Chromecasts makes me feel a lot better about the decision I made. If it had turned out to be large cash prizes to top 3 would have been on massive tilt. And alternatively if I had competed and gotten fired trying to win a Chromecast would have also been on tilt.
I feel the cash prize has to be not just large but unreasonably large to justify getting fired over participating in the contest to win it :-)
This is what my parents told me :) But to love contests is to be a bit of a nut sometimes...
I somehow missed this announcement about the lightning Marathon. But it seems like a nice idea (i.e. organizing shorter Marathons, of just 1-2 days). Are you going to organize such Marathons in the future, too?
Yes — if they get funded :-)