Day 3-4

These two days had been quite a hectic one. I was unable to manage some time to post anything yesterday, so I thought let's merge the happenings of both these days in this blog.

Day 3:
Yesterday's morning had been one of the best mornings I ever had in my life! I bet this goes equally with both Dipanjan and Udayan as well. We woke up, freshened ourselves and took to our breakfast, and it was already time to register ourselves and collect the whole lot of goodies that this event had to offer us! We registered ourselves in the event, and as we went to claim our Codechef T-shirts (how I wanted this t-shirt!), we were told that first we have to click ourselves in a specific theme! We proceeded.....

We did a little paperwork, collected the goodies and it was already time for lunch! (Remember the timings? :D) I kept on hoping that the lunch will be a mixed blend of sweet and sour... and I was quite disheartened as it was almost all sour until.....

Payesh! (Can you see it?)

While we were counting hours for the competition to start, we planned to have a practice session that would help in increasing our chances in the event. And there's no better place to think and code than sitting in a quite greenery with peace all around.

After having a good time practicing, we thought to stroll in the fields. The field had some special members as well.....

                                                                                     

                                   

                                        

Baidya and Dipanjan were upto their creative skills again ...

We went on to attend the welcome ceremony in the evening. Again, I must repeat the words. Mesmerizing! Hypnotizing! Don't believe me? Have a look.

And then there were some stellar performances...

                                       
                               Last but not the least...not forgetting the BANQUET

Day 4:

                                           Today was the ultimate showdown.

We had some light breakfast and went on to march towards the event hall. The contest was scheduled to start at 9:00, but anyway, it started from 9:30 and continued till 3 pm!

To be honest here, we could have performed better. We got a great start in the beginning, but slowly our progress got decelerated. We overlooked a simple trick in one problem that kept us bugging for long, and slowly our confidence went down as well. We tried our best, but maybe it just wasn't our day.

We had our lunch after the contest ended and went on towards the discussion arena. There were some discussions over the problems posed in the contest followed up by the awards ceremony.

That's it for today. Although it had been not at all the way I wanted the contest to go for us, but never mind, we all had a good exposure of the real contest scenario. We would take this great experience with us as we leave Coimbatore in a day or two.....and I am sure that would really benefit us in our coming future.

Tomorrow is Excursion day. A lot of teams are going to visit several interesting places of Coimbatore, and we are going as well. The next blog would update the excursion. Stay tuned!