These must have been the most hectic 6 days of my life.
It all started on 19th February, 2010 when we had our BYTES 10: The Online Programming Contest under the aegis of Troika 10 : The annual Technical Fest of IEEE-DCE(now DTU). I was the event head.
The contest was of 6 hour duration from 8PM to 2AM and 41 languages were allowed. 5 problems were given and Imran Khan from IIIT-Allahabad won the contest. The contest went well with unfortunate hiccups due to silly error in the test cases of 2 problems.
While sleeping at 3AM on 19th, had no intention of going to Sankalan at all. But fortunately, I woke up early on 20th morning and luckily decided to go to Sankalan as have been doing from the last three years. In my first year at Sanakalan, I couldnt clear even a single prelim. The performance improved a bit in the secong year when we cleared One prelim(Algorithms) and came second in that event. Just recently, we had gone to Technophilia, a similiar fest organised by JNU. There we cleared two prelims: Algorithm (came first, had topped the prelims as well :) ) and Logic (came second).
With this background, we were expecting a better performance at Sankalan this year. But what turned out was something we hadnt expected even in our wildest dreams.
There were three teams from DCE (Core2Duo@DCE: Akhil and me, DCERockers: Sidharth and Gaurav, Banned: Ujjwal, Uday, Yash, Vinay and Sailesh) which together won 6 first positions, 4 second positions and 2 third positions. 12 awards in total meant one-third of the total prizes in the whole fest. This was just Awesome. Team Banned even won the overall Team Trophy. In total DCEites won almost Rs. 16, ooo in cash prize.
Akhil and me came first in Algorithms, second in Debug and Overnight Programming.
Participating in Overnight Programming was a first one for us. Didnt sleep for 48 hours continuously on 20th and 21st(Sat, Sun). Icing on the cake was that we hadnt slept on 20th due to 8hour Overnight Programming from 11PM to 7Am in the morning and then had Algorithm at 9:30AM on 21st. We were physically completely exhausted but the competitive spirit in us kept us going (:P).
3 prizes and Rs 3400 was a nice reward!
From Monday, 22nd February Troika 10 officially Started. And along with it started Phoenix: The annual Technical fest of CSI-DCE Student Chapter. On the first day, they had Cranium: On-the Spot Programming Competition and luckily unlike last year akhil and me cleard the prelims. The mains were of 1.5 hours and had 8 problems. We solved 6 problems and came second. We wer defeated by the same guys from Jaypee who had defeated us a day before in the overnight programming @ Sankalan. Here, they had also solved 6 problems but did this earlier than us. The night was spent preparing questions for BITS. No wonder Akhil and I had our dinner at 12:30 in the night.
Next Day, We had Ether Avatar: The multimedia-based Quiz. Anoop Sir had come up with a great flash interface for prelims. The improvements in the mains was also comendable. This event totally belonged to him as was last year. Luckily, Akhil and I also won (first prize) Algorithms at Phoenix. Truly speaking, after JNU(Technophilia) and DUCS(Sankalan), we were expectiing this. :)
23rd was one of the most special day for us. I had two of my events on this day: Bits-The On-the spot Programming Competition and BOTS: The AI Game Challenge Competition.
The last night was spent finalising the PHP code for prelims for BITS. The questions for mains were yet to be fully finalised. After seeing the performance of Jaypee guys at Phoenix and Sankalan we decided to increase the number of problems in mains from 6 to 9. The problems were finalised while the second years handled the prelims. Just when the mains were about to start came the news that I had cleared the prelims for Linux Challenge @ Phoenix. there was no way I could leave BITS and had to sacrifice it (Not that I would have surely won if I had taken part :) ). The mains went well and all the 20 teams shortlisted for mains appreciated the questions (:P).
Just before BOTS was about to start, Sachin did something we are never gonna forget. The organising tema was seting-up the big screen for BOTS, when suddenly huge roars started emanating form the mech canteen. Within a second, the whole area was empty. No one could afford to miss the historic moment.
Sachin finally completed his 200 and BOTS took off. Second years won the event!
The day finally ended and I got back my lost laptop (did I mention I had lost it during the prelims of BITS?). My mobile charger though, after 2 days is yet to be found :(.
Still these 6 days were just AWESOME. Have never had so much learning and so much fun at the same time.
Am gonna remember them forever.......
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