We finished just below midway in the leaderboard of teams that submitted a solution, but it was still a great experience.
Unfortunately this was during a snow storm - we competed remotely and one member could not make it. We finished in the top third of the leaderboard.
Placed well, top 5 in Ireland with work colleagues.
I had a detailed plan written somewhere, but I can't remember where. Roughly it was like this:
- Read the brief separately.
- Discuss it together and formulate ideas.
- Write the dumbest solution possible, just to get on the leaderboard.
- Each try your own best idea, likely this code can be used by others anyway.
- Try to bring the code together into one best solution.
- For the last bit, scramble together to try bump points by parameter searching etc.