CGMO Ramblings
by v_Enhance, Aug 14, 2012, 6:15 PM
Anyways, first of all, gj USA team! Results are here. Problems are here.
Scores are
, but only multiples of three are given (lolwhat). Scores were quite high this year: gold cutoff was 108, silver cutoff was 75. There's a rumor that bronze cutoff was not positive.
I did Day 1 in test conditions, although I only gave myself two hours. I got 134 and the first half of 2 in that time. I looked at 5678 later that day as well. Some thoughts on the questions: overall I thought day 2 was borderline trivial, and day 1 was relatively easy (not outlandishly so, though).
Scores are
, but only multiples of three are given (lolwhat). Scores were quite high this year: gold cutoff was 108, silver cutoff was 75. There's a rumor that bronze cutoff was not positive.I did Day 1 in test conditions, although I only gave myself two hours. I got 134 and the first half of 2 in that time. I looked at 5678 later that day as well. Some thoughts on the questions: overall I thought day 2 was borderline trivial, and day 1 was relatively easy (not outlandishly so, though).
is actually extremely motivated (one does not lose any strength), and suddenly the inequality becomes an equality! Pretty amusing. I guess this was OK for a #1 if only for intimidation factor.
,
and 
popped out with a few manipulations. During the test I thought that this would be a medium-hard NT, but afterwards I realized you could just use 
(oops) and 
.
solved it.
and 
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is trivial, so now you're left with 
and 
,
and 
,
and similar nonsense, or trying some global nonsense with probalistic method, which got me nowhere.
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