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[Invitation, Prizes!] CodeRed and Humblefool Cup 2024 by IIIT Allahabad
By Fremder, 5 weeks ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!

After the great success of Alkhwarizm 2024, we are excited to invite you all to the following two flagship coding events of Aparoksha — the annual tech-fest of IIIT Allahabad.

  • CodeRed
  • Humblefool Cup

Participation is open to all, but the prizes are only for Indian university/school students. We encourage everyone to participate in these contests. All of these contests are unrated and will be held as CodeForces gym contest.

CodeRed

CodeRed is an ICPC-style coding contest for problem-solving enthusiasts. Compete in teams of up to 3 in two rounds — Online Qualifiers and Onsite Finals.

Details:

  • Online Round (Qualifying round)

    • ICPC-style coding contest
    • Date & Time : Tuesday April 2 , 2024 at 20:00 IST
    • Prizes: INR 6K (1st: INR 3K, 2nd: INR 2K, 3rd: INR 1K)
    • Registration Form : click here (Deadline : April 2 , 2024 at 10:30 IST)
    • Contest Link : click here
    • The Global Top 25 teams in this round along with 15 selected teams from IIITA will proceed to the second round.

  • Onsite (Final) Round:

Humblefool Cup

Humblefool Cup is a prestigious international coding contest honoring the late Harsha Suryanarayana, aka Humblefool, an illustrious IIIT Allahabad alumnus. Join us coding fanatics, as we dive into a fierce competition commemorating one of India's finest coders.

Details:

We would like to thank:

Looking forward to seeing you all in the standings. Make sure you read all the problems carefully. Good luck and have fun!

Note: Ideas for some of the problems have been derived from our proposal for Codechef Starters 122. If you are aware of these problems, kindly refrain from participating.

Happy coding!

UPD1: Registration for CodeRed has started.

UPD2: Editorial for CodeRed is out now .

UPD3: Due to system testing issues, we are postponing the Humblefool Cup to a later date. The new date will be announced soon.

UPD4: You can participate in the CodeRed final mirrors, by the following link

UPD5: There will be no further extension to the CodeRed finals. We will consider all the submission from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. IST.

UPD6: Congratulations to the winners of CodeRed Finals! To view the final leaderboard / solve the problems, click the following link.

  1. OverShadow: Coder_Nayak, Krypto_Ray, sloppy_coder
  2. Hamse na ho paayega: pk_27, uewbv, Light_KG
  3. Convex Chull: abhidot, JaySharma1048576, yash_daga

UPD6: Updated contest Date and Time of HumbleFool Cup is Tuesday April 16 , 2024 at 20:00 IST

  • Reminder: The Humblefool Cup starts in 5 minutes, self-register yourself here.

UPD7: Congratulations to the winners of HumbleFool Cup! To view the final leaderboard / solve the problems, click the following link.

Global Top 3

  1. thenymphsofdelphi
  2. minhcool
  3. Ra16bit

Indian Top 3

  1. 21cs01033
  2. envariant
  3. vok8
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pvtr orz

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pvtr excited.

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Humblefool orz!

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I'm unable to register for the contest. When I click on 'Register', it asks for the team's name but the dropdown list is empty even though I registered my team through the Google Form.

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As Starters 122 tester, I bet problems will be fun.

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orz!

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approach for B ?

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Can anyone tell the solution of I problem. My approach:- If number of indices where a[i]>a[i+1] is greater than equal to 3 then it should be NO and for 1,2 I am just choosing two indices greedily and brute forcing whether my array will be sorted or not but wrong on test2. If count of such indices is 2 then my operation will be on those indices and I am checking for all the combinations in those 4 indices (i,i+1,j,j+1 where a[i]>a[i+1] and a[j]>a[j+1]). Somewhat similar I am doing when count equal to 1 either i will be choosing min(x,y) or max(x,y) for that (i,i+1).

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    Failed Testcase

    The intended solution is, you can fix at most two "bad" indices. An index $$$i$$$ is bad if $$$i \leq i + 1$$$, now try to make cases for the indices and check if the array can be sorted.

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    Also we found out in the contest that there are many easier dp solution as well, take states as index and status of the operation applied

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Please change the privileges accordingly , so that others solution can be seen

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Can you please provide the editorial of this contest? Fremder

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when will be editorial uploaded for this contest?

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why the delay?

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I don't think the queue will be ending within the next 15 mins.

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I guess the system testing is gonna take much longer than you are expecting Fremder. I think it will take upto 9 : 30 pm IST.

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So much delay now, I'm going!

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Just postpone the round to another day,queue is not going to clear in next 5-6 hrs.

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Good Decision

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Submissions are in queue for about 20 minutes now.

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what is the idea for C1, C2. Are they related?

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    C1 and C2, are mostly unrelated.

    C1 Hint
    C2 Hint
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Nice set of problems,although E was easy for its place.

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    Most of the problems in this round had pretty much similar difficulty levels, as our more difficult problems were used up in CodeRed Finals :-)

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When can we expect the prize money ?

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    It's so bad nowadays...people devoting their time to a contest all to get ignored when querying about the rightful things Fremder

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      For Prize money mail will be send to winners , sorry for the delay .

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        Any update on the prizes Fremder

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          Working on it , will mail ASAP

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NGL cash is much needed right now

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