DWITE Problem 3 accident

[UnnamedT]

For Problem 3 dwite, our team Unnamed.t outputted the answers to standard output instead of file output.

Is it possible if our solution was correct that we can earn points for what was given?

That is all I have to say. It is ok if points cannot be changed, I just disliked the fact that I am being penalized
for a stupid mistake.

[Dan]

The rules state "Decisions of Judge DWITE are final.".

The reason why is that it would be impractical to go back and manually mark a large number of submissions that have small mistakes or even no mistakes but where marked wrong by the judge. The scores would always be in flux and it would not be fair to the teams that you would jump ahead when they did not make a small mistake.

[UnnamedT]

Yup, I understand your point of view.

Thanks anyways.

[Tony]

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We might try some new system, if there are good ideas about it. Would having 3 instead of 2 submissions allow for more retries to fix such mistakes, or would it just let some teams try more blind guesses?

[UnnamedT]

I would say it would just allow for some blind guesses. But 3 submissions would be good for certain problems where blind guesses wouldn't really work (like #1).

This is actually the second time such a mistake was made from my team, once a for loop was left to iterate only once instead of 5 times so we only got 1/5

This just goes to show that it is important to double & triple check solutions, instead of rushing through it to score an extra 1 or 2 points.