tejas10p's blog

By tejas10p, history, 18 months ago, In English

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 58, this Wednesday, 28th September, rated for Div 3 & 4 Coders.

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem setting panel are: - Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Tejas tejas10p Pandey, Abhinav abhi_inav Gupta

The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day as soon as the contest ends, after which they will be available only to Pro users.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

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18 months ago, # |
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I downvoted the blog.

Can anyone guess the reason?

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    I think I know but I am not sure, maybe let's get a different question.

    Question for you: Who asked?

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      18 months ago, # ^ |
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      I am asking to guess the reason.

      Btw where is your "ask me anything blog"?

      Spoiler
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        18 months ago, # ^ |
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        I understand your personal reasons, I just do not want to say them out loud. I have my personal reasons too, don't you see?

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      18 months ago, # ^ |
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      Lol, the person who literally comments on every blog is commenting on this xD.

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        18 months ago, # ^ |
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        I was not trying to be funny, it was the irritation that led me to comment here

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Thanks for telling us (div2 participants) in the automated email to "get ready to raise your rating at lightning speed". However, the contest is not even rated for div2 :)

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Hi

One genuine question (at least for me): Why are you (problem setters and admins) scheduling Starters only for Div 3+4? If you're not having problems of that level, postpone the contest(just like you postponed Cook-off twice) or reduce the number of problems to 5-6. We wait so long for the contests, and you either make it unrated for Div2 or cancel the contest that no one wants.

Thanks

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    I would say that whenever I have the harder problems (last 2-3 problems), I always go for div2 round (remaining problems are relatively easy to find). So not having div3 will not increase the frequency of div2 rounds as such. In the past few months we have been to conduct div2 rounds every week. But now due to some issues like problem reviewing halt for 2 months, we are not able to arrange good hard problems currently. Problem reviewing has started again and we might be again able to hold div2 contests at a decent frequency some time later.

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      18 months ago, # ^ |
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      Please stop doing this :
      days before the contest : STARTERS 58 (RATED FOR DIV 2 & 3 & 4).
      and in the last day : STARTERS 58 (RATED FOR DIV 3 & 4).
      sorry but it looks scammy.
      I think days before you should be able to know if it's a div2 of a div3.
      Thank you for your efforts, and remember I am not talking here about you or your work.
      
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        Hi, sorry I didn't knew about this earlier. Escalating this issue.

        I think we could just mention starters xyz instead of mentioning the rated divisions before it gets fixed