The 2014 Google Code Jam World Finals will be starting in about twenty minutes from now in Los Angeles.
The winner will receive $15,000 and automatic qualification for the 2015 Code Jam finals.
Here is the contest dashboard. We can see the live scoreboard once the contest starts.
Also, interested people can watch the the live stream on YouTube here.
Wish all the participants good luck! May the best man (or woman) win! :)
Feel free to post your predictions about the contest as comments. Let's see who is able to get closest to the actual outcome! ;)
UPD: Contest has started, and Egor currently leads the scoreboard having solved problem A in less than 8 minutes!
UPD: A little more than one hour into the contest. A lot of coders have solved problem B, but kcm1700 is in the lead after solving problem C. tourist hasn't solved these two yet, but he currently occupies 5th place after solving D-small and E-small.
UPD: Two hours into the contest now. hos.lyric has stayed true to his principle of starting with the harder problems; he has solved D-small, E-small, and F-small, and he currently occupies 7th place. There's now an interesting battle between Egor and eatmore at the top of the scoreboard (Egor currently leads by 4 points).
UPD: Three hours down, just one to go! tourist currently tops the scoreboard, but eatmore has the same points as him, and is only two minutes (on penalty) behind him! This battle looks like it will entertain us all the way until the final minute! al13n and Egor, in 3rd and 4th place respectively, are also equal on points, but al13n is about five minutes (again on penalty) ahead!
UPD: 45 minutes remaining. As eatmore's E-large has expired the time limit, it looks like tourist is heading for victory. But wait, hos.lyric has suddenly jumped into 3rd place; now if he solves any of D-large, E-large, or F-large, he will go to the top of the scoreboard!
UPD: 30 minutes remaining. The only change is that vepifanov has jumped into 3rd place by solving D-large. Still the top two or hos.lyric look most likely to win it all.
UPD: 20 minutes remaining. dzhulgakov has submitted B-large to take the 4th place and sevenkplus has submitted C-large to take the 5th place. 2nd to 5th positions all have 101 points. But the big news is that tourist has made a submission on E-large and now leads the scoreboard by a commanding 35-point margin!
UPD: 10 minutes remaining. eatmore has solved F-small and probably consolidated 2nd place. But the judges say that this solution could possibly work on F-large, so let's wait to see if he submits it there as well! Now I think it's only between tourist and eatmore!
UPD: 5 minutes remaining. eatmore has submitted F-large and has taken the lead over tourist! But wait, ivan.metelsky has suddenly submitted both F-small and F-large to take the second place! This means that tourist is in third now.
UPD: CONTEST HAS FINISHED! The current positions (assuming everybody passes system tests on all large inputs) are:
- eatmore — 165 points
- ivan.metelsky — 137 points
- tourist — 136 points
- vepifanov — 101 points
- dzhulgakov — 101 points
- sevenkplus — 101 points
- Romka — 101 points
- iwiwi — 101 points
UPD: The final results are announced! Many congratulations to tourist for winning the big prize! :)
UPD: The final scoreboard is now available here. The top 7 are:
- tourist — 136 points
- eatmore — 123 points (failed F-large)
- sevenkplus — 101 points
- ivan.metelsky — 95 points (failed F-large)
- al13n — 89 points
- Egor — 89 points
- kcm1700 — 89 points