national?
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What were you competing for?
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Wdym Competition?
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In Croatia, there are three levels in each competition: school, province and national.
At the school level you compete against other schools in your province (as an individual) and after itās concluded thereās a threshold to move on. Out of ~1000 contestants usually 1/5th moves on. I ranked 2nd (out of 1041) national-wide and 1st in my province with 23,17 points out of total 25.
At the province level you represent your province (as an individual) but itās basically a free-for-all. The top 8 contestants country-wide will advance. I ranked 3rd (out of 244) national-wide and 2nd in my province with 19,56 points out of total 25, missing 2nd place by 0.2 points and 1st place by 0.9 points. I think I underperformed because I made some dumb mistakes but itās okay since the next contestant was left behind by 2 whole points so I had a lot of wiggle room.
And the national level: The 8 best contestants will compete against each other in a 100 points test, which will be the hardest so far. Ranking 1st will make you national champion, a title I claimed last year and Iām looking to reclaim it, although the competition is tough.
And for software development, Itās relatively simple. You (and optionally a team), create a piece of software, documentation and a screencast (a recording explaining the usage of your program/website or such). On the school level, the bar for entry is very low. A comission comprised of your school staff (ex. teachers, principal etc.) will watch you present your project. The only requirement to move on to the next stage is to participate and present.
During the province stage, you must also submit the above mentioned docs, screencast and also your source code. You will then present your project to a province comission that will write notes and analyze your presentation. After all of the teams (or individuals) presented their projects, they will rank the top 3 projects in the province. This wasnāt concerning as there were only 4 in my province. Then the national comission will look at top 3 projects in every province. They will then use criteria to choose the 10 best projects to move on to the national stage. During the break between the province stage and national stage, you can add new features and improve the project in general. Unfortunately our project wasnāt invited (out of about 25 other projects that made top 3 in their provice) so we wonāt be moving on, but Iāll be going to the national stage anyway.
The national stage is usually hosted somewhere on the coast, by the sea. So moving on will sort of grant you a mini-vacation (since it lasts for 4 days).
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I did two categories: software development and CS theory. I passed theory since itās point based but the projects in SD were handpicked by a national comission so mine unfortunately didnāt pass 
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Wow, all of this sounds so cool, I wish they had this where I live! Amazing job getting so so far!
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Also, sorry for the wall of text!
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Wait youāre National before?
R u famous?
Haha, not really. Itās an achievement for sure, but thereās just so many categories. Even the contestants of the international computer science olympics are hardly know by the public, let alone a person competing in a national competition in one of very many championships
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Too late. Iāve already bragged I beat āThe best coder in the entirety of Croatiaā XD
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UFO
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Hahaha yeah, I guess you did. Well, it was 7th grade at the time, and it wasnāt really a coding competition but if it makes you happy, brag all you want!
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Iāve gotten better at making music soā¦Cybershift Might be coming back? I donāt know.
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Croatia is best
Iām not sure how thatās relevant but youāre super right! 
Btw, happy anniversary @Taser!
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Iām working on a redLINE level for this so it not dead
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RED LINE!!!
wait. wonāt that be spoling your game in a way?
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After the game comes out Iāll post it
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY omg 
YOUVE BEEN AMAZING!!!1
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Croatian coder was the first to beat edge and last light (verified it at least)
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