Imagine Cup R1 M1

As I discussed last time, I participated in Microsoft's Imagine Cup Algorithm Challenge Round 1 Match 1 started on 25th Oct. Today it ended with me ranking 197. It was a hard time for me, I tried my best to get a good rank, but there were people who tried harder than me. So the next match is starting on 22 Nov (right in the middle of my exams), so I don't know how I am gonna cope with it. I will have try very hard to get a rank of top 50. Yes that's what required to qualify for round 2. That means I have to work atleast 4 times as hard as I have worked this time.

Imagine Cup is in form a game called Herbert (a Robot) that crawls all the way collecting white dots and avoiding gray ones. All we have to do is write a code to collect all the white dots. And the size of the code determines the points we get for that level. Smaller the code, more points we score. I believe that I had made a good start, coz I am playing for the first time and there are people with previous years' experience in this game and they know all the tips and tricks to get the optimal codes.

So with the experience of one game, lets see where will I end up in Match 2 of this challenge :)