How To "Lose" a Programming Contest

Step 1: Choose the wrong problem to start.

Step 2: When you realize everyone is solving an easy one, copy-paste code from the other problem such that the combination of two bugs makes you think it's right. Hand in, get 20 minute penalty.

Step 3: Get scared by all of the special cases present in all the other problems and do nothing but bang your head against the brute force method for a couple of them.