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Codeforces Quest Rounds!
By existenence, history, 4 years ago, In English

Hello Coders!

Recently I've been thinking about CodeForces rounds and I came up with an idea...

Let's have Quest Rounds which would have following characteristics:

  • You UNLOCK problems by solving previous ones. So the next problem is only unlocked once you solve the current one.

  • Upon acceptance, every problem gives some clue/hint for the solution to the next problem.

  • There is a single narrative for the entire problemset with a character going through an adventure and the problem statements and solutions describe the adventures.(like having our protagonist Mr. Square in Flatland!)

  • At the end of the adventure, every participant gains wisdom(along with ratings) in the form of XP. They can use this XP as currency for various purposes on the platform. (I would love suggestions and/or constructive criticism on this!)

  • The Quests can be for Div 1, 2, 3 or common ones.

Comment and give ideas/suggestions/criticism about this and let the showrunners know about this...peace :)

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4 years ago, # |
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I wish I could downvote this more than once.

Seriously, why complicate stuff so much?

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Idea is interesting. But there are some troubles with hints, really hard to find a hints which will be equal for all problems. I mean hint for A can be 90 % solution, but for B like 15%.

Also I guess big part of participants solves problems in quest format in standard rounds. I mean you read only 2 next problems after last accepted problem. So there is no huge difference between common round and Quest

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4 years ago, # |
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You are welcome to organize this in mash-up to show how is it fits on codeforces

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    I do think that the idea can be more refined and streamlined before materialising it.

    Also, adding the XP property and other cool stuff would require changes to the platform so maybe MikeMirzayanov's opinion about this would be cool!

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Go and create you own platform named Questforces !

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