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By Everule, history, 4 years ago, In English

There is a codeforces round X coming up. Is this a new thing in CF, or have similar rounds already taken place on CF?

Does anyone know what it is about?

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4 years ago, # |
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My guess is that the "X" stands for a round whose number hasn't been decided yet — problems and a date have been proposed but coordinators don't know if anyone would want to hold a round before it.

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    That may be true, but I have seen round numbers being changed recently. I remember a div 1s number being increased by 1 after a div2 round was conducted in the middle.

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      It's roughly one entire month in the future, so probably many things aren't decided about this particular contest. Maybe they didn't even decide the division (1,2,3,4) so they just wrote a placeholder?

      However previously what I've seen was just "Codeforces Round" and not "Codeforces Round X", so I guess I'm just patiently waiting about more information.

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Maybe it is a next Global Round, as it is 2:30 hour long and Global Round 9 was also same 2:30 hour long