I always want to get some “real” achievements in the competitions of ACM/ICPC. We get two fourth place and a runner-up this year. This is a great success for our team. What frustrated me, is that we haven’t do any training together for almost one year and a half. In the first year of our university life, we spend almost all the time to prepare for this competition, we do virtual contests, we find and solve problems on the internet from days to days. But, the best award we got in the first year was just 8th place in the Beijing site. Comparing the great success this year and the lose in the first year, I deeply doubt that practice make things perfect, or even worse?
Practice makes worse?
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