The topic where you can tell how you liked the challenge, & how you solved it.
As an exceptional bonus this time, and given the challenge game was announced not to be released again as a classic game on the platform, you may actually share your code publicly. Who knows, maybe a beginner could learn how to DFS.
Most likely this thread is irony, but let me give real feedback:
We did not treat it as a contest at all, only as a team-building opportunity, with zero care about the timer. So we did it not at contest start but 5 days later, with 4 fellow colleagues, after work. We were together in the same meeting room and I think this approach added to the fun factor.
Overall, the puzzles were fine - challenging but solvable. We were stuck for a long time only once: at the very end of the first room with the bells puzzle. We had to use hints only here and it turned out that all 4 laptops were muted…
So I would love to see similar events in the future. Just please: not instead of the traditional AI bot contests, but besides them! These have so different target audience, intensity, coding difficulty, etc so that they really cannot substitute each other.
I was waiting a half of a year for competing in algorithms, data structures uses, class building and wondering what new I can implement to beat legend league boss.
This was not a coding contest - waiting time is increased to 1 year.
I do believe that @JBM was referring to your stated waiting time of 1 year, when in fact the next contest (whatever shape or form it may take) is in 6 months, Spring Challenge 2022
6 months passed already from the last contest (Spring Challenge 2021), 6 more to go. That makes total of 1 year of waiting - according to my calculations.
I had actually understood @elderlybeginner’s logic of counting from the last multiplayer contest. The information I’m lacking to reach the same conclusion is that a Spring Challenge 2022 would in fact be a multiplayer again.
AFAIK that much hasn’t been announced, so the waiting time is indeterminate.
