TCO Marathon Online Round #2

TCO Marathon OR2 finished. I got 65/445 rank, 11331.73 score, and advance to round 3 successfully. My friend, FinalLaugh, got rank 191, while he has got 200 rank when the submission parse finished, just by a finger's breadth. The path to Las Vegas is becoming more and more narrow, next time , we will fight for 50 contestants position.

The top 2 players' program scares me a lot...... So many codes that looks like "AA>s;oI2A". As we, FinalLaugh and I, discussed, it's a technology of compress.

I dislike this problem, two reasons: 1st, it's a gambling game; 2nd, it's solution is not so hard, but with a lot of work. My solution is so easy to implement ， somewhat like saarixx (rank 7) did.

First of all, list all card combinations: {4,4} {3,3} ... 15 cases from high to low. Then, provide a simple solution to newcard(), round1(), draw() then take them into an array, each owns 15 elements, just like this:

 private int[] newc = { 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
 private int[] rd1 = { 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
 private int[] draw = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2 };

For these three method, I think, a fixed strategy will be ok. As to round2(), it's more complexity, but as I'm so lazy.... I realize it like this:

   public int round2(int card1, int card2, int bets1, int bets2, int drew) {
       int idx = getCardIdx(card1, card2);

       // pre solution, like the too little card will return 0 immediately
     
       switch (drew) {
       case 2:
           // some solution
       case 1:
           // some solution
       case 0:
           // some solution           
       }
       return -1;
   }

That's all, so simple but strong enough to advance to the next round. Wish my good luck next round!