ACM ICPC 2009

ICPC criterion for selection to onsite rounds was modified at Amritapuri this yr. Since ICPC aims at increasing the number of universities participating.. the selection criterion was something like the selection was confirmed for the top team of each university provided they have at least a code accepted.. In case there were less than 50 such teams, best performers would be chosen. Since most of the teams participating managed to solve at least one question.. almost at least one team from all participating colleges gets in. Even though our team "missingDigit" wasn't affected by it, but i feel that the criterion is unfair to be maintained because even teams who got three questions correct but ranked 2nd or 3rd in their institute are likely to be left out. But does this criterion actually make ICPC a "battle of brains" ??