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The day I got red
By galen_colin, 3 years ago, In English

I wanted to make a video on a cool problem, which also happened to be the problem that let me become red. It also ended up turning into a story about that contest and what happened leading up to solving it, including baby trucks, broken problem difficulties, and traveling to the past to see mid-contest rankings. I think some here are interested in stories, so I'm posting this here for those who are. The video is here.

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3 years ago, # |
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Crazy to see myself in third during the 1h mark LOL. You could've mention also that most solutions for F got hacked (even the author's solution) because the tests weren't good against slow-ish max flow implementations to paint the picture of absolute chaos that was that contest.

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    Oh yeah, good point — I remember being scared that those TL issues would force an unrate, and it must have been worse to have F be your main source of points along with that.

    By the way, you held 2nd for a bit around the 58 minute mark — very impressive F

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Very good use of tags indeed.

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