We (UC San Diego) were also at the contest and got stuck on Problem F (the first problem we attempted), and spent most of the contest trying to figure out why what looked like a correct solution (according to the spec in the problem) wasn't working. Overall the contest would have been a lot different without problem F.
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We (UC San Diego) were also at the contest and got stuck on Problem F (the first problem we attempted), and spent most of the contest trying to figure out why what looked like a correct solution (according to the spec in the problem) wasn't working. Overall the contest would have been a lot different without problem F.