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The second division is growing and gaining strength
By MikeMirzayanov, 13 years ago, translation, In English
After analyzing the Division 2 rounds results and the difficulty of the problems, we decided to expand it Division 2 and to include the "blue" participants. Thus, the second division will consist of members with a rating from 0 to 1649. 

This is primarily due to the fact that I think the problems from the second division rounds are interesting and useful to the "blue" participants. At these competitions, we often give training problems on common themes of sports programming.  In addition, it is seen that in order to be blue enough to solve 1-2 problems on the first division competitions. This leads to the fact that such members do not increase their skills. 

Note that we are considering the possibility to divide "yellow" the participants into two colors, since this group is very huge and contains members of widely differing skills and abilities. 

UPD. The yellow group was separated into two groups: violet and orange. It is testing period now, some more changes are possible. Rating graphs will be updated tomorrow.

Wish high ratings,
MikeMirzayanov

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13 years ago, # |
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To make everything clear and intuitive you could change the color of the better yellow part to orange. It is something between yellow and red ;)
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    But this will confuse many people, they will think that he is an admin. (kidding)
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Ignore.
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I agree with both idea.(expanding div2, dividing yellow)
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This is a very good idea !
Thank You !
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OK,very nice
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Orange or Pink! :)
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Good Idea ... Really inspiring ... :)
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..my Rating 1652
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How if we use purple color? Color code: R:128, G:0, B:128... I think, it would not be confusing :-)
Plus, another off-topic, how if we have country rank list ?
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Good idea and thank for all the authors thinking the problems in every contest.
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It is very good idea, because Division 1 was too large...
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I love violet!

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Red also contains widely differing skills, so it would be nice if new color is assigned for General / Marshall (2400+). Only one coder have 2400+ rating now, but more coders will get 2400+ in the future (top coders' ratings haven't converged yet).
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    too many colors won't be a very good thing in my opinion, so i think they can keep the old colors, but just change the range of each color. 

    or they can apply these new colors, but handle the issue that Red contains different skills by raising its starting score, as 7 colors would be toooo much :)
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      I wrote it because 2400 in codeforces corresponds to target. "◎Handle" instead of "Handle" may be good.
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There is an out-sync of the "Problemset" and the "School Team Contest". The problems that had solved in the "School Team Contest" didn't show solved in the Problemset. Hope it can fixed soon...
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I don't happen to like the colors, especially violet. Any chance of a change? A poll for example might be good :)
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Weird, I'm starting to get used to it :D
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I think violet should be yellow. It doesn't look good on the graphs.
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    // reply for non-russian colleagues

    what you think about this colouration? =)
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      The right side is better but I still think that yellow instead of violet is the best choice.
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I have translated my ideas to english and post it in both languages at my page.
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Violet doesn't look good at all in the rating graph.
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So if BlueCoders participate in Div-1, will it be rated for them ?
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    Of course YES , that's just like greens participating in Div.1
    And actually , there is no Div.1 contest at Codeforces.They have "Div.2" and "both divisions"
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    Yes, since there is no First Div Only contests.
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Let's pick a nice one from http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes , selection criteria being that colors are distinct and pronounceable ?
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You should bring back some part of yellow. for example instead of violet.
Edit: Don't forget that red, yellow and blue are main colors of ICPC logo.
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Could we at least color them in a reasonable order, no need to repeat the mistakes of TopCoder... 

So one possibility would be: violet - blue - green - yellow - orange - red - (ultraviolet :P)


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I don't like these 2 new DARK colors which are absolutely and very near to red. I think yellow was shining and it's common with everyone so please get yellow back with another shining color.
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I just registered Codeforces Beta Round #61 (Div. 2) and it still shows "out of competition" heading. I think under the new scheme I am considered inside the competition. Am I right?
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    I got a mail. It says "It will be for newcomers or participants from the second division (non-rated users or those having less than 1650 rating points)."
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      What I mean is, the registration page should be changed so that blue coders should be considered inside the competition. It would be confusing if it is inconsistent with the email and this blog entry :-) 
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It is very difficult to discriminate the lvl..    red pink almost close.. also the red orange in some displays.
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