alt Hacker NewsBecause I'm a ICPC medalist (not this year though) but not a IOI medalist.
Another evidence is that you only have 5 hours to solve 3 problems in IOI, but you need to solve 10+ problems in ICPC. It's impossible to have all 10+ problems to at IOI level in ICPC.
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Are you an ICPC World Finals medalist? Because winning an IOI bronze medal is _way_ easier than even qualifying for the ICPC WF, and less than 10% of the teams at the WF get medals.
I'd go as far as saying that gold at the IOI is probably easier than getting an ICPC medal. (One is individual and the other is in teams, but my point stands).
Medals in both contests depend on your relative ranking (and of course depends on the difficulty of qualifying for them).
Doesn't say anything about the difficulty of the questions themselves though.
> Because I'm a ICPC medalist (not this year though) but not a IOI medalist.
Isn't getting a medal a function of your ranking, not score, in both cases? If so, that does not prove much about the difficulty of either.