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Thinking about a contest
By jjang36524, history, 4 years ago, In English

Today, in lots of contests, hacks are unrespected. There are no hacks in 90% of div1 round. However, find someone's mistake is a nice skill. I suggest a hacker contest. 1. There is no score for the problem, only for hacks. 2. You are allowed to copy someone's codes into local. 3. 2 hour solving and 12-hour hacking, like educational codeforces. 3.5. You could hack the problem only if you solved it. 4. No pretests except samples, and no systest either. The only real test would be from hacks. 5. Score is 100*successful hack-50*unsuccessful hack. Of course, the contest should be unrated, because it is hackforces, not codeforces.

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4 years ago, # |
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One small problem: If there's no score for problems then there would be no incentive to solve problems.

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    I think you should allowed to attempt hack only when you have solved that question.

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Topcoder is almost similar to what you are asking for.

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    But it is coding+small hacking, I want pure hacking contest, with minimal solving.

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I think a contest of hacking should be made up of several solutions of problems,and you should give a test case to hack them to get the score.There is no need of solving but hacking.

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