The competitions have concluded, the winners announced, but there is one issue. Based on the competition results, my friends — a team of three students — are on the edge of qualifying for the finals (so far, only 12 teams have been confirmed), yet for some reason, one of the slots has gone to a 33-year-old coach who has spent his entire life in competitive programming.
Yes, older students can officially participate in ICPC under special rules (https://icpc.global/regionals/rules). However, there are specific regulations. Firstly, there must be a valid reason for interruption of study. Secondly, the coach must demonstrate that allowing their participation would not give the team an unfair advantage.
I have no complaints about the rules or the organizers. My primary concern is with the coach, who intentionally concealed the participant's background to obtain a participation permit. We are dealing with an individual who has token top places in school and collegiate competitions, has been involved in training and problem preparation, and is a professional lecturer in competitive programming, and many more. The interruption in his studies was due to a trivial issue of poor attendance (he was expelled for academic underperformance). The petition submitted to the ICPC committee essentially stated (I saw it): "Hi. I have a student who has never participated in ICPC contests, but he loves programming very much. He would like a chance to compete. Please allow him to participate." This is a rough paraphrase of the petition, but the essence is clear — do to not mention anything about him and portray him as an ordinary student to easily secure a spot in the finals.
In my opinion, the coach has grossly violated the official ICPC rules and principles of fair play. There have been instances in history where teams deceived the organizers to gain unfair advantages, but they faced consequences. It seems this is yet another such situation.
План, как прийти к успеху:
План, как прийти к успеху:
Переехать в престижный вуз РФ из Казахстана.
Долго и упорно тренироваться, учить алгоритмы.
Хорошо написать четвертьфинал.
Купить билет на метро на полуфинал.
Перед контекстом спрятать суффиксное дерево в какую-то мутную папку.
Быть дисквалифицированным.
Can you share more information? If you wanted to share this with the community, it's worth mentioning specific names... How do we know that you didn't make it up? If this post is only for the ICPC committee, why is it here)
We sent an email to manager@icpc.global a month ago, but there is no reaction. I made a post to help the first not qualified team to have a change to be in WF.
I think you can certainly publish this person's name here. Since this age is close to mine, me or other people from those days can confirm your statements and even help to deliver this message to the right people.
Ok, I used some logic and figured out the person from Ural region who is originally from the same city as this post's author. I quickly found last name associated with successful contestants from Izhevsk back then and found an article in Russian where Vladimir Cherepanov from Ural FU elderman team promotes his CP classes and confirms that he is two times ROI winner.
This one?
Looks like his username is lemelisk
Every person in the world would agree that this guy is definitely not a noob lol
Yes, you are right. Here you can find his results:
2007 standings
2008 standings
The author asked this question a year ago: https://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/123238 but nobody really looked into it, probably because they failed to qualify back then.
BASED. Next step for this guy is to participate in IOI that would be even funnier.
There have been instances in history where teams deceived the organizers to gain unfair advantages, but they faced consequences.
What kind of similar instances there are in ICPC history?