The TopCoder taste

One year has passed, one year on TopCoder!! The best year of my life… One year for me to discover that programming is not science, it's not math and it's not experience… It's an art! A noble art!! I really want to feel it… Please let me feel it… let me feel being a TopCoder, a real TopCoder.

I am Russian, yes I am Russian, I never miss an algorithm competition, I always submit the 3 problems in time, I always score at least 1 or 2 successful challenges, I never wait for the system test, I know it! Problems definitely will pass, I'll win this match!! No, No!! I am not Russian, I am polish, I've just finished my high school, I was accepted this year at Warsaw thanks to my solid results in TCHS and IOI, I am always a winner, I am a TopCoder!! Oh no, I am not polish! I am not Russian either… I am Chinese, I always win algorithm matches, NO, I am not interested in algorithms, I am a Chinese developer, I am an American designer, NO, I am a Canadian designer, NO, I am French, I am only interested in marathons… Oh I'm tired!! I am none of these :( it just tastes good; yes it's a taste, the taste of being a TopCoder, a real TopCoder.

In Orlando, I will make people feel this taste; I'll give you a spoon from each type of competition :) I'll tell you what Petr do in his spare time, what ACRush thinks of before the competition, what are marek.cygan and Eryx saying 5 minutes before the match, how is AleaActaEst thinking of what to write in his appeals, how is lyt looking at PE, how are people thinking in the marathons, how they win, and how they lose, and how they never lose hope… And how they come back, back for being real TopCoders.