Hello Codeforces!

Greetings from Coding Club, IIT Ropar!

With utmost zest, we want to announce that our club is organizing some exciting programming-driven events under our Annual Technical Fest — Advitiya.

The details of the events are as follows:

• CODCOM: An ICPC-styled Team Coding contest.

  

  Participation: Team of 2-3 Members (Can be from different colleges)

  • It consists of two rounds. The top teams from the first round will be invited for round 2, which will be held offline in IIT Ropar Campus
  • Round 1 is scheduled on 11th Feb'24 from 20:05 to 22:05 IST. The contest link will shared directly over E-mail to the registered teams
  • Round 2 is scheduled on 17th Feb'24 from 12:00 to 14:00 IST offline at IIT Ropar

  Registraion Link: Unstop

• AlgoUnlock: A reverse Coding event where the participants need to figure out the code logic used to generate the given output from the sample inputs.

  

  Participation: Individual

  • It consists of two rounds. Selected contestants based on ranking from Round 1 will be invited to the IIT Ropar campus during ADVITIYA
  • Round 1 is scheduled on 13th Feb'24 from 20:05 to 21:35 IST. The contest link will shared directly over E-mail to the contestants
  • Round 2 is scheduled on 17th Feb'24 from 18:00 to 20:00 IST offline at IIT Ropar

  Registraion Link: Unstop

• CodeHunt: A single-stage treasure hunt-based event

  

  Participation: Team of 2-3 Members (At least one of them should know coding)

  • It is a single-round event to be held offline on 16th Feb'24 from 12:00 to 14:00 IST in IIT Ropar Campus

  Registraion Link: Unstop

The problems have been prepared and tested by dhruvgupta822, prashant_370, Inferno_The_God, Muditgupta24, Adityak2507, ananymous507 and Mehul_Gupta

Note

• The top 3 teams/Individuals of each event will receive exciting prizes. All contestants will receive a certificate.
• Further details & rulebooks can be found and downloaded through the registration links or through the official site of Advitiya.

About Advitiya

Advitiya is the annual tech fest of IIT Ropar, scheduled to be organised from 16th to 18th Feb 2024. The fest promises you to give enriching experience with various competitions, exhibitions, workshops and activity zones. The registration & accommodation charges are absolutely free. For further details, visit our site or you can reach us out at +91-9470601668 or +91-8708927947.

Updates

• Unfortunately, We won't be able to deliver prizes outside India. However, every participant will get e-certificate through e-mail.

Good Luck! See you in Campus

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters119, this Wednesday, 31st January, rated for till 6-Stars (ie. for users with rating < 2500). This contest is organised by Coding Club, IIT Ropar, as part of Advitiya 2024.

Time: 8:00 PM — 10:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Aditya Kumar Adityak2507 Sahu, Anany ananymous507 Dhamija, Anuj anjkk01 Gupta, Mehul Mehul_Gupta Gupta, Moksh Inferno_The_God Kandpal, Shreyan Dominater069 Ray
• Tester: Apoorv tyr0Whiz Kumar
• Statement Verifier: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh
• Text Editorialists: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh
• Contest Admin: Shreyan Dominater069 Ray

Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest. The video editorials of the problems 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!

Today's morning I got the following mail:

Attention!

****Your solution 151548513 for the problem 1660C significantly coincides with solutions xabialonso14/151529962, Mukundan314/151534091, harshgoyal185/151546638, skhan_org/151548513, rajeshpenugonda6/151566978, raushnn/151568699, Aksnov/151569233, RishabhVarshney/151570560. Such a coincidence is a clear rules violation. Note that unintentional leakage is also a violation. For example, do not use ideone.com with the default settings (public access to your code). If you have conclusive evidence that a coincidence has occurred due to the use of a common source published before the competition, write a comment to post about the round with all the details. More information can be found at http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/8790. Such violation of the rules may be the reason for blocking your account or other penalties. In case of repeated violations, your account may be blocked.****

However, I checked the solutions and found that only the template is same and the codes are completely different.

When I checked my account, there was no notification about it and the solution was also not skipped. But the strange part was that my rating was changed even though it shouldn't as Div.3 contests aren't rated for me.

If anyone has any idea about it then please comment below.

PS: I am guessing that all the solutions were skipped by the automatic system but after that, they realized that the codes are different. That's why they have taken everyone into the competition without realizing that the contest isn't rated for some people.