MEET THE TEAMS OF 2020

Team name: Inseop is Korea top

Institution: Yonsei University

Coach: Hyung-Chan An

1. What skills or strengths do you feel your team brings to the World Finals?

We think it is very important for cooperative tasks to exchange opinions between team members smoothly. It can make quick decisions that everyone can agree on, which benefits from unforeseen circumstances. Our team understands exactly the strong points of each team member and always respects each other’s opinions. We have the best ability of any team to read, explain, think, and report on the progress. Also, we expect to display our skills in the competition sufficiently.

2. Are there any obstacles your team has had to overcome?

What our team lacked were confidence and belief. We often underestimated the individual’s abilities and thus failed to meet expectations. On the day of the Seoul Regional, our confidence was tested to counter against difficult problems or other teams. We were able to show better performances than usual. We believe we have overcome this issue although we keep working on it.

3. Is there a contest problem your team is especially proud of solving? What insight helped your team create the solution?

There are two such problems in Seoul Regional, Washer (Problem K) and Island (Problem C). Those problems are not hard to implement but difficult to come up with an idea. Despite these challenging aspects, we solved Washer faster than the other teams. We also solved Island, which only 4 teams solved by the end of the competition, five minutes before the end time with the key ideas we thought for an hour.

4. How did you come up with your team name?

Inseop, one of our team members, is the oldest and has the most experience in ICPC in our team. So we hoped that he would make our team the best in Korea.

5. What type of problem do you think is the hardest, and why?

Regardless of the type, problems that require a lot of implementations are the most difficult, since we frequently make common mistakes in complicated implementations.

6. What’s your team’s secret for all sharing one computer efficiently?

We split the problems into three parts for each team me
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