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Customized Contests
By ankitsablok19091989, 13 years ago, In English

Albeit, Codeforces is a great coding platform but I have always felt the need for something called a customized contest which aim at some specific topics in programming and algorithms which besides involving more participation will also encourage new coders who don't participate in regular DIV1 and DIV2 contests because of the fear of drop in the ratings to enter the contests and give them some time prior to the contests to prepare those topics and then try hands on in the contest and judge the level of skill or the grip they hold in the topic asked in the contests. The topics can be released to the participants a week prior to the contest so that the students get time to prepare such kind of questions. This will also lead to Codeforces being a much better learning platform besides being a gr8 coding platform already :).

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That of course is a great thing but "fearing to participate just because of  a rating loss" is just stupid. If you, for example, turned red, would you leave your account so it would just stay that way? Of course no, there is no point in doing so. Only by taking part in competitions you can gain a needed experience and proving yourself to be red is much cooler that just "changing your color".

What I think can be done is next: since most of the problems in archive are already tagged (dp,graph etc.), it would be great to write a virtual contest with a customized set of problems. That doesn't require adding any new problems and its still handy since most people would like to solve problem in the contest-like environment. Also it would be interesting to be able to pick a custom selection based on difficulty. Since, for example, violet-colored people rarely do problem 5 (or/and 4), it would be cool to swap them with problem 3 from some other contest and write it that way. This probably would be a better training.
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