Welcome to yet another delayed blog post from chefs’ kitchen. We have tried earlier, and we have been trying consistently towards it, but somehow we have not been able to deliver our blog posts on time. Nevertheless, we will keep trying. Now that we are here let us have a look back at the April Lunchtime 2014 and all that happened around it. If you have been a constant visitor to our Lunchtime contests, you would have noticed that the competition for a place atop is getting fierce. We have seen several new names from across the globe bringing glory to their schools, and many others are trying hard.
The April Lunchtime is yet another beautiful tale of the fierce competition among the younger breed of programmers across the world. Our problem setter Piyush Kumar, who was making his debut as a CodeChef programmer drafted the battlefield. Welcome aboard Piyush. The Lunchtime-veteran Sergey Kulik tested the problems from the debutant problem setter, and at the same time wrote editorials and Russian translations for them. With all his experience, he churned out some luscious editorials, and we are sure you enjoyed them thoroughly. Among the others who decked the problem-setting panel, there were Minako Kojima and Gedi Zheng who contributed the Mandarin translations of the problem. All the delicacies from our problem-setting panel kept the participants engrossed for the entire three-hour duration of the contest. Moreover, while some were going on with the contest with absolute ease, there were some perplexed faces as well. Amid those faces there were our winners somewhere working their way up the ladder.
The April Lunchtime 2014 was a bit on the slower side, as far as the correct submissions are concerned. And although we did received significant amount of submissions by the end of the contest, the number of correct submissions was a tad on the lower side when compared to some of the recent Lunchtimes we have had. However, that did not hamper the quality of contest and we saw some brilliant performances. Moreover, few stood above the others.
The performances that caught us and everybody else by surprise came from maicaifou, dzy493941464, shizhouxing, fancycoder, and zcc598066456. Hailing from China, these fabulous five were taking part in their first Lunchtime contest ever. Finishing the competition among the top five, dzy493941464, shizhouxing, zcc598066456, and fancycoder have been around on CodeChef and have participated in our monthly contests earlier. However, it was the debut for maicaifou. And a gleaming one, we must say. What made the competition among these five even more exciting was the fact that zcc598066456, maicaifou, and shizhouxing were from the same school – Zhenhai High School, China. Now, we do not know for sure, but it certainly would have sparked a slight inter-school rivalry. That is a good one to have.
We think you all must have such competitive rivalries going on in your schools; some might have it in sports, some in academics, and some in competitive programming. And, we would love to listen about all of them. Also, if you have toppled any of your schoolmates in this or any previous lunchtime, do share it with us. You can even share with us, the results of all the Lunchtime participants from your school. It is always good to be competitive in life, so, play hard, play fair. Now, let us have a look at the victors of our April Lunchtime 2014.
Firstly, the non-Indian top 10:
- maicaifou
- dzy493941464
- shizhouxing
- fancycoder
- zcc598066456
- tonynater
- meirambek
- jcvb
- jiry_2
- akatorihasi180
Now, our Indian Top 10:
Heartiest congratulations to all the stars of our rank tables.
Now, we look at the final stats for the contest:
- Total Users: 442
- Total Submissions: 2439
- Number of distinct users with correct submissions: 158
- Total users from India: 346
- Total users not from India: 96
The non-Indian rank table, while was dominated by students from China (7 out of 10), our Indian rank table had some popular names in meteora, akshatb42, nihalpi1, and many more. These names and many of their companions will be shining big around the Indian programming circle in coming days. So, keep a watch on them. You too can carve your name among the finest programmers around the world; all you need to do is take a start. And we believe our Lunchtime programming series can give you that.
We hope to see many of you taking part in our Lunchtime contests in coming days. And with that we will wind up this post of April Lunchtime, and move towards the May Lunchtime 2014.
For any feedback, queries, or suggestion you can always reach us at feedback@codechef.com
That is all from us, for now.
Regards,
Rudreshwar
Team CodeChef
