Oct 25, 2009

Russians and Chinese rock in Google Codejam

In Google Codejam 2009, I made it to the top 3000, but failed to make it to top 500. Top 500s get a T-shirt each, and I missed one. I saw the results of succeeding round among top 500s which decides top 25 for the final round at Mountain View office. Among those 25 people, 12 are from either Russia or China (7 from Russia and 5 from China). And, the remaining 13 people are from 13 different countries. So, no other country other than Russia and China has got more than one person in top 25. Here is the link.
http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/scoreboard?c=243103#

Russians rock even more because other than the 7 from Russia, other 4 are from former Soviet Union. One from each of Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Georgia. Basically, former Soviet Union has got 11 out of top 25!

What about Indians? 169 is the top-most rank any Indian has got and there were only 4 in top 500 :(

For more stats on Google Codejam, goto http://www.go-hero.net/jam/09/

./Channa