Ranking
When there is a board, what it covers, and what a frozen column means.
Whether there is one at all
The Ranking entry follows one setting — who may see scores.
| Setting | What you get |
|---|---|
| everyone | the whole board, with places |
| participants only | your own row, and no place |
| managers only | no ranking entry at all |
The middle case is the one worth stating. If you may not see other people's scores you still get the screen, showing what you have — but no place, because a standing among people whose scores you cannot see is not a standing.
What the board covers
A picker across the top offers Combined plus every round that has started. A round nobody has opened has no standing, so it is not offered: listing it would promise a table that cannot exist yet.
The combined board is where you look for the whole contest, and it carries the problems as well as the totals.
When it may be read
Each round has its own window — an organiser publishes the first round's board while the second is still being fought. Outside it the entry stays in the navigation and the page says when:
- The ranking opens on …
- The ranking was available until …
- The ranking is not available.
A vanished entry would look like a fault; being told the board opens at six is being told something.
Two shapes
Which one you get is the activity's setting, and they are different tables rather than different sorts of one table.
Points
Columns: Place, Contestant, Solved, Sum, then a column per round. Clicking a round's header expands it into a column per problem; the most recent round is expanded when you arrive.
Neither submission time nor execution time is considered.
ICPC
Columns: Place, Contestant, Solved, Penalty, then a column per problem.
A solved cell shows the time of the accepted submission as a clock — 1:58
rather than 118 minutes — with +2 beneath it for the rejections that came
before. An unsolved cell with attempts shows a dash and the count. Penalty is a
clock too, and past a day it keeps counting hours rather than starting a day
component, because these numbers are compared against each other.
Penalty is the minute the problem was solved in, plus twenty minutes for each rejection before that. The minute counted is the one begun: twenty minutes and thirty seconds into the round is the twentieth. Nothing after the accepted submission counts, so sending one more out of habit costs nothing — and neither does a problem you never solved.
A submission the judge did not answer costs nothing
A rejection is a verdict. Where an evaluation failed or a manager cancelled
it, nobody ruled on your solution, so no twenty minutes are charged and the cell
shows a ? rather than counting against you. A compilation error is a verdict
like any other and does count.
Two contestants level on solves and penalty share a place. There is no further tiebreak: the board will show two firsts and then a third rather than choosing between them. The points board shares a place the same way, on an equal total.
A frozen board
Frozen means the numbers stopped, not that they are zero
While a round is frozen, a blue banner says Ranking is frozen and either
Results are hidden until … or Results are hidden until the organisers unfreeze
the ranking. Its columns carry an asterisk, and a cell whose outcome is withheld
shows ? rather than a nought.
That distinction is the whole point: a ? is tried, and you may not know yet,
which is a different thing from did not try. A total that is still moving must
not read as a settled one.
A freeze is not the only reason for one. Hover a ? and it says which of three
it is: Submitted during the freeze, Not judged yet, or No verdict was
returned — withheld, waiting, and never answered are three different things to
be told, and only the first has a time when it ends.
Find me
Find me scrolls to your own row and highlights it. It is disabled where you have no row on the board being shown.
A board wider than the screen scrolls sideways. The place and the contestant stay put while the rest slides under them, so a row never loses its name.
Groups on the board
A row is a contestant: a person competing as themselves, or a group. A group's row carries its name and its short description, and — where the activity says to print it — who is in it, under the name.
Members never get rows of their own. See Competing in a group.
An empty board
No results yet is a normal state: an activity that has not started, or one where nothing has been solved. It is not an error.