Talk:Google Code Jam

The page says:

In 2009, total 8605 people competed.

But at least 10287 people competed. says

8600 people solved at least one problem.

In a post to the google-codejam Google Group, a codejam administrator wrote this:

Right - you can only see people who got points. Counting people who downloaded at least one input, there were 10287 contestants. There may have been more people who showed up and didn't get anywhere, but we don't record them as having participated so I don't know how many there were.

71.124.184.16 (talk) 17:28, 26 September 2009 (UTC)


 * So why don't you just go ahead and correct it? Don't wait until someone else does it. -- X7q (talk) 21:04, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

confusing
I wanted to incooperate the text in the lead into the table because it is redundant information, but then I realized they do not match. 87.79.112.227 (talk) 14:53, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

2017 competitor numbers
It must be at least 26071, based on the number of users that submitted a solution for problem B. MoHaG (talk) 13:40, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The current number seems to originate from the number of users on the scoreboard (Which seems to be the number of users that got at least one problem correct) MoHaG (talk) 13:44, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Notability
I am not very familiar with esoteric rules of Wikipedia community, and I am, actually, have not doubts about notability of Google CodeJam event. However, I believe, that its notability is similar to that of Topcoder Open events. Wikipedia community says Topcoder Open is not notable enough to have a dedicated article, and I see that, judging with the same reasoning, Google CodeJam article, in its current state, does not pass Wikipedia notability criteria either. Thus, these articles should either both left to live, or go down together! Birdofpreyru (talk) 22:13, 9 July 2018 (UTC)