Contest Diary

Saturday Morning, October 24th

A look at a practice problem work in progress. Notice the impressive screen real estate with the device-specific video driver installed. Can you find the error in the program (it's a long shot that you'll see it:) ?

The end of lunchtime, mere minutes from the contest start, and all the team members are calm and collected. You'd think they were watching a game.

Saturday Afternoon, October 24th

Shyam demonstrates the meditative technique used by the Gold team to maintain their competitive edge in the heat of battle.

The competition is about to begin!

One hour left in the competition and Team Gold relaxes after having solved all eight of eight problems,as shown by the balloon fiesta

The Garnet Team, no slouchers themselves, hold their own with two balloons (they will end up with three).

The competition is over and everybody starts comparing notes.

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