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Re:Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard by dllu on Saturday April 12, 2014 @05:34PM (#7579295)
There's not really much difference between the top 1000 places, since all that matters is solving all 4 problems. This is the qualification round that goes on for 27 hours, so there is not much pressure to solve the problems fast. The Indian programmers are in a time zone that makes it difficult to get up at 4:30am just to solve the problems a bit faster.

Comparing the performance in the next few rounds would make more sense.

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Re:Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard by sgeisenh on Sunday April 13, 2014 @02:18AM (#7580448)
Wait, do the results from each round make a difference in subsequent rounds? I didn't take the time to implement a solution to problem C because I felt like it would take too long.
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Re:Google Code Jam – Contest scoreboard by dllu on Sunday April 13, 2014 @02:27AM (#7580464)
As long as you qualify, results from each round do not make a difference in subsequent rounds. [0]

[0] https://code.google.com/codejam/faq.html

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