When the competition committee gave [Question A] to all the participating university teams, the contestants of the 34 university teams were instantly ready for it.

"It's not a difficult question. ”

After listening to Chen Jun's analysis, Xu Bin also took a look at the question, and then quickly began to write a program to answer the question.

Everything looks going well.

Xu Bin's fingers danced on the computer keyboard at such a fast speed that he could write program code based on what was in his mind without looking at anything with his eyes open.

In Xu Bin's view, solving this question is like having a fixed formula, but there may be some confusion on the way to complete the formula.

But Xu Bin judged these confusion phenomena very accurately, and there were two people around him, Chen Jun and Ouyang Chen, who analyzed this [Question A] in an all-round way.

Therefore, Xu Bin's answer to the question must be completely fine.

Besides.

This [Question A] is the easiest of all the questions in this ACM competition, and if you can't answer it or answer it incorrectly, it's a bit funny.

About ten minutes passed.

Xu Bin is still in the final stage of answering questions.

At this time, in the arena, the competition committee has not yet announced the success of a university, and everyone is busy answering questions.

Backbite!

Suddenly, a voice rang out in the middle of the arena.

Immediately afterwards, in the stadium broadcast, the competition committee announced the first university to answer [Question A].

"Congratulations to St. Petersburg State University for successfully solving [Question A] in 10 minutes and 47 seconds, becoming the first team to solve [Question A], congratulations!"

Accompanied by the announcement of the competition committee, a balloon with the sign "FIRST-PROBLEM-SOLVED" suddenly rose at the place where the St. Petersburg State University team was located.

It took 10 minutes and 47 seconds to solve [Question A], which can be said to have put enough pressure on the participating teams from other universities.

However, Xu Bin was not flustered at all.

He knew very well that if he panicked, he would waste his time solving this [Question A].

[Question A] The time given by the competition committee is to solve it as quickly as possible within 30 minutes, after all, the whole game will take 5 hours and a minimum of 7 questions, which means that each question has its own time limit.

If you can't solve this program problem within the allotted 30 minutes, then you won't get the result of the first question, and you will basically be declared out of chance.

Other words.

If you want to win the ACM competition, not only do you need to answer every question correctly, but you also need to use as little time as possible to be efficient.

The team that answers all the questions in the end and takes the least time will win the overall championship.

When St. Petersburg State University was the first to solve [Question A] in 10 minutes and 47 seconds, some of the participating teams were as calm as Xu Bin.

There are also some participating teams from colleges and universities who panicked.

"Even, so fast?"

"This ......"

"St. Petersburg State University is really good, and it deserves to be the champion university that has won many ACMs!"

"Oh my God, 10 minutes and 47 seconds, it's horrible. ”

These college teams that have begun to panic are already a little desperate.

Because it is really difficult for them to compete with St. Petersburg State University.

He was ahead of the curve in the first question, and it was not so easy to catch up with each of the following questions.

About two minutes later, the committee announced that the second university had submitted the answer, and it was judged to be AC, which means pass.

"The second university to pass [Question A] was: California Polytechnic University, with a time of 13 minutes and 03 seconds. ”

The strength of the California Polytechnic University from the Eagle Sauce Country is undoubted, and it has become the second university team to solve [Question A].

"Director Xu, how long do we need to be?"

Chen Jun looked at Director Xu Bin, who was seriously writing code to answer questions, and asked curiously.

"It's fast, it's the first time to participate in the competition, there may be some hands, and the speed can't keep up for the time being, just get familiar with it. ”

Xu Bin replied.

The reason why he didn't solve [Question A] quickly was not because [Question A] was difficult, but because Xu Bin came to the stage of this ACM competition for the first time, and he would be more or less unfamiliar, and his mentality and environment would cause Xu Bin's problem solving speed to be slower.

But as long as you get used to it quickly, after entering the state, this kind of problem will be solved.

Backbite!

"Haicheng Jiaotong University passed [Question A] in 14 minutes and 51 seconds!"

Backbite!

"Moscow State University passed [Question A] in 14 minutes and 53 seconds!"

Hiss!

This couldn't help but make the audience gasp, they didn't expect that there was only a 2-second difference between Haicheng Jiaotong University in Xia and Moscow State University in Mao Xiong.

Both universities are also well-known universities that have won the overall championship in the ACM competition.

Xu Bin basically does not pay attention to the information of the outside world, and immerses himself in the process of answering [Question A].

Gradually, Xu Bin found that feeling of indulgence in silkiness.

"Submit!"

From the moment Xu Bin clicks submit, it means that the time for Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences to answer [Question A] is suspended, and if the jury of the competition committee passes, the time of submission is the time taken by Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences to answer the question.

If you answer the question incorrectly, you will be sent back by the judges, and you will have a chance to continue answering the question, and this time will continue to pick up the answer time just now.

Soon, Xu Bin's computer received feedback from the judging panel of the competition committee - AC!

That is, the meaning of passing!

"Fog City University of Arts and Sciences passed [Question A] in 15 minutes and 14 seconds!"

With the radio in the center of the arena sounding, Ding Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this result.

Because Xu Bin is taking ACM for the first time, nervousness and other factors may cause the answering speed to be a little slower.

But it is not as slow as imagined, compared with the ace-level university teams such as Haicheng Jiaotong University and Moscow State University, it is about 20 seconds slower.

Compared to St. Petersburg State University, which was the first to solve [Question A], it was less than five minutes short.

These are all things that have a chance to be chased back later, so Ding Yue will not be so pessimistic.

For his good brother Xu Bin, Ding Yue must treat it with an optimistic and confident attitude, otherwise, the more nervous he is, the more likely he is to be disappointed.

"Principal Ding, what level is our time score of 15 minutes and 14 seconds?"

Wen Ruohan, the secretary on the side, didn't know much about the rules and results of the competition, and when he saw that he had passed the first [Question A] of Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences, and the results had also come out, he asked President Ding curiously.

"Upper-middle. Ding Yue glanced at Wen Ruohan and replied with a smile.

"In other words, with the latter questions, there is a chance to catch up with the time, right?" After Huang Youjie heard this, he was still full of expectations for the final results.

At least he was not completely thrown off on the first question, so he missed the championship.

"Well, yes, generally speaking, if it exceeds 20 minutes, it will be a little difficult to catch up later, and if it is more than 25 minutes, then there is basically no drama, after all, the time for a question is basically about 30 minutes, and the difficult one may be an hour. ”

Ding Yue nodded and briefly explained to Lao Huang and Wen Ruohan.

"The University of Cape Town answers [Question A] – WA!"

Suddenly, a notice from the judging team of the competition committee came from the center of the venue, and the first university that answered [Question A] incorrectly appeared.

"The University of Cape Town, the one in Africa?" Ding Yuechu felt a little familiar when he heard the name of this university.

At this time, Huang Youjie nodded and said: "That university in South Africa seems to be quite powerful, and it is still a member of the World University Alliance." ”

"How could I get the first question [A] wrong? Wen Ruohan muttered curiously.

For the majority of on-site audiences, as well as those watching the competition through other online channels, the first question of the ACM competition, that is, [Question A], is obviously the least difficult, so it is not impossible to solve such a question, right?

Most of the participating university teams solved this problem in about 20 minutes.

Only the University of Cape Town from South Africa actually answered this question incorrectly, and the final time exceeded 30 minutes.

This also means that the University of Cape Town in South Africa has almost become the first university to be eliminated.

Because they didn't get any results on the first question, even if they wanted to catch it back, it would be relatively difficult.

However, even if the team from the University of Cape Town answers [Question A] incorrectly, they can continue to participate in the competition and solve each of the following questions.

There are no rules such as elimination in the ACM competition system, that is, timing, correct and incorrect answers, or other special circumstances, etc., and each university has the right to participate in the whole competition process to answer all questions.

Of course, in fact, there is another option for colleges and universities that have not solved [Question A] at this time, and that is to leave the market directly.

But the University of Cape Town obviously won't choose to do this, and instead of leaving, it is better to continue to answer every question that follows, although at this moment it is basically out of the championship.

Because if you leave the scene directly, it's really a bit embarrassing.

"The computer science major at the University of Cape Town doesn't seem to be a trump card major, right?" Huang Youjie muttered.

"But even so, the other 33 university teams [Question A] all answered correctly, but only the University of Cape Town answered the question incorrectly, which is outrageous, and I feel that the University of Cape Town may be here to be funny. ”

Ding Yue couldn't help but joke.

Isn't it outrageous enough to go straight to [Question A]?

Half an hour has passed since the start of the competition, and the time given by the competition committee for the first question has ended.

Next, it means that [Question B] is about to appear.

The difficulty will be taken to the next level.

"From now on, the competition committee will provide [Question B] for the participating teams of all universities, and the participating teams will complete the answer within 30 minutes at most!"

With the announcement of the competition committee, [Question B] has officially appeared.

Obviously, [Question B] is not difficult at all for the top and well-known university teams, and they will naturally have to challenge the last two or three questions.

Ding Yue saw through observation that whether it was a few participating universities in the Mao Bear Country, a few universities in the Eagle Sauce Country, and several universities in Europe, when facing [Question B], they basically showed no pressure.

Of course.

For Xia Guo's team, Haicheng Jiaotong University is also stress-free, and [Question B] is indeed relatively simple for them.

Ding Yue didn't know what was going on at Northwestern University of Science and Technology, because Ding Yue saw the three members of their Northwestern University of Science and Technology team, his expression was always very frozen, and he looked a little nervous.

In the end, Ding Yue still set his eyes on the competition area of his Wucheng University of Arts and Sciences, looking at Xu Bin, Chen Jun, and Ouyang Chen, the three of them looked relaxed, not nervous at all, and had already begun to skillfully solve this problem [Question B].

Chen Jun will analyze [Question B], Ouyang Chen will assist Chen Jun, and then Xu Bin will write the solution program according to the [Question] analyzed by Chen Jun.

The whole process is very smooth, and Xu Bin is also gradually entering the state because of the first question.

Therefore.

Now Xu Bin has almost mastered the number of ways to solve problems by typing code programs, and it is time to fight with other colleges and universities when he is proficient.

"University of Cape Town Submits [Question B] Problem Solving Program, WA!"

Suddenly, about eight or nine minutes later, the sound of the competition committee's announcement sounded in the middle of the arena.

The University of Cape Town submitted the solution to [Question B] in less than 10 minutes, and the result was still WA!

"Hahahaha!"

"What is the University of Cape Town doing?"

"Wrong again?"

"I see, the University of Cape Town is here to join in the fun!"

"What's wrong with the Cape Town University team?"

"It's a shame that the University of Cape Town didn't have a chance to win this year's ACM competition. ”

Netizens who are following the ACM competition at home and abroad feel a little "funny" about the performance of the University of Cape Town in [Question A] and [Question B].

"Brother Yue, it's confirmed, this Cape Town University is here to be funny, hahahaha!" Huang Youjie couldn't help laughing.

Ding Yuezhi was a little more careful, and took a look at the three players of the University of Cape Town team.

The three contestants were very frustrated and annoyed when they learned that the solution to the question submitted was wrong.

It was clear that they weren't here to have fun.

It's really......

Strength is not good!

"Lao Huang, maybe it's really because of the limited strength, as far as I know, the computer science major of the University of Cape Town is really not very good, they can get the qualification for this ACM competition, I think it should be the reputation of the University of Cape Town in Africa, there is really no better recommendation." ”

Ding Yue's rational Lao Huang said.

"Brother Yue, when you say this, it seems to make a little sense, from [Question A] to [Question B], it can indeed be seen that their strength is very average, I still hope that Ah Bin and they can solve this [Question B] quickly. ”

Backbite!

"Congratulations ......"

Just when Huang Youjie's words fell, [Question B] was the first college team to solve it.