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By kristevalex, history, 21 month(s) ago, In English

Many problem in problemset have tags that don't have anything to do with the problem, this is rather annoying, especially if you are trying to find problems for a specific topic. As far as I know anyone who solve a problem can edit the tag, which basicly means that anyone can copy someone submission, and edit the tags. For the problem 1713D - Tournament Countdown form the most recent div2 round induk_v_tsiane has been repeatedly deleting tag 2-sat, and someone adding it back.

Also it seems that solution for this issue is not that hard to implement: either a minimum rating to be able to edit the tag, or leave it just for problemsetters.

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By kristevalex, history, 6 years ago, In English
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By kristevalex, 6 years ago, translation, In English

I would like to invite you to participate in the rated Codeforces Round #518. Date and time of the round: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 18:05. The round was postponed from October 23 to October 24 because of the ICPC Indian Online Qualifier.

This is the first competition I proposed. I hope you will enjoy it.

The round will have 6 tasks for the second division and 5 tasks for first (3 problems are common). The contest will last for 2 hours.

Tasks for you were prepared by Alexey kristevalex Kristev and Alexey Um_nik Danilyuk. Also thanks for:

Nikolay KAN Kalinin and Ildar 300iq Gainullin for help in preparing the problems; Ivan isaf27 Safonov и Oleg Merkurev Merkurev for testing the round; Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

I would like to express a special gratitude to Um_nik for the help throughout the process of preparing the round and also for patience for my stupid questions.

slight lyrical digression

This round is a thanks-round for support from Mail.Ru during the 8-year campaign!

Scoring distribution will be announced later. I wish you a high rating and looking forward to see you at the competition!

I'll be on the community Discord server shortly after the contest to discuss the problems.

UPD: scoring distribution div1: 500 1000 1750 2250 2500 div2: 500 1250 1500 2250 2750 3500

UPD2: edtorial.

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