If you are an Indian doing CP, it's nearly impossible that you haven't heard of TLE Eliminators. You either know it for their PCDs or for selling free stuff for extremely high prices (such as their courses which just contain basic theory. But their main advert is selling them for "curated problems" which are just a bunch of cf problems made by someone else and the problems being stolen from THIS FREE SHEET and sold at high prices for being "curated".) But if you are someone in touch with the CP Sphere, you would know them for their frequent association with cheaters be it Psychotic_D or chief_27 (reference). The reference I shared had a much direct attack tone exposing TLE Eliminators before but I don't know if they were bribed or threatened to change it and hidden the name.
The main aim of this blog is going to be exposing more Teachers (aka Cheaters) associated with this organisation. We will just be talking about the teachers/mentors because talking of the students will need a book instead of the blog because this is the organisation is the mother of cheating culture in Indian Competitive Programming so students would be countless.
But let's start with an ex student or rather a super successful ex-student who went from newbie to CM in 11 months. He has been a part of TLE since the third batch, the time when I joined it. Back then it was a very small organisation with minimal students so the founder aka Priyansh Aggrawal wanted phenomenal results to advertise his money making model and in order to do so, he openly used to teach tricks to avoid plag in his discord server and one such guy who really mastered that art was Queue.
Now you might say his profile looks quite clean. Well that's because he really mastered the art to change the plagarised codes (and also because he used to get his codes directly from Priyansh back then which weren't public like the ones from telegram). He also uses multiple alts. In his prime days he used notQueue to first submit a problem from it and then change it a little to submit from his main profile to avoid penalties. Now he uses alts to get them to a specialist or expert rating and then sell it to innocent students who think showing a high rated cf profile in their resume will get them a job. Another example of it include LazerRazor — Evidence: Check his PCD Video at 55:23 where profile name is visible. I suppose he isn't new to the platform to not know creating alts is cheating. How hypocritical that in this comment their founder is calling out another of his exposed cheater student-mentor duo for having alt accounts but doesn't have an issue with is own educators making and selling one every other day.
Next person we are going to talk about is another TLE mentor, Candidate Master synthborne. What more can I say about someone whose whole CP career began with cheating? THIS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF..
Next to the list is _CrazyForCode_. There is a lot I need to say about him. His contributions in the cheating industry deserves a seperate blog of its own. But I don't want to extend this blog too long since we also need to expose more cheater mentors so let's just discuss the contests where he cheated and got skipped. Will be making a seperate blog for contests where he escaped getting skipped (which is 80% of the contests he gave so far) with proofs. 1. Codeforces Round 863 (Div. 3) — Proof 2. Educational Codeforces Round 147 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof
Next cheater mentor is sachin_gupta21. Skipped contests- 1. Educational Codeforces Round 157 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof
Next we have _AdiYadav_. Contests skipped- 1. Codeforces Round 849 (Div. 4) — Proof 2. Codeforces Round 937 (Div. 4) — Proof
Next is jsi. Skipped contests- 1. Codeforces Round 860 (Div. 2) — Proof 2. Harbour.Space Scholarship Contest 2023-2024 (Div. 1 + Div. 2) — Proof 3. Codeforces Round 994 (Div. 2) — Proof. Special mention — act of very recent cheating after the start of their current batch. This is so recent that rating change hasn't been updated yet. 4. Codeforces Round 973 (Div. 2) — Proof (PS — He got hired even after knowing his account is on the verge of getting banned the next time he is caught cheating). Also deserves a seperate blog. But atleast he is honest in changing his color by magic because that he would be if he stops cheating.
Next we have sanmai_reddy123. Skips- 1. Educational Codeforces Round 136 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof
Next on the list is Betelgeuse. Skips- 1. Codeforces Round 827 (Div. 4) — Proof
Next we have akkafakka. Also deserves a special seperate blog. Notice that he has 1 or 0 problems solved in most of div 3s and div 4s he gave after becoming an expert (which is his true level because an expert or for that matter even a pupil can't fluke so often that he can't solve a single problem in a div 3 or 4). Skips - Educational Codeforces Round 166 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof
Next in our list is Koushik. Another seperate blog deserver because even he has 0 to 1 solves in div 3s and div 4s he gave after becoming an expert (I wonder how they do doubt support lol). Skips- EPIC Institute of Technology Round Summer 2024 (Div. 1 + Div. 2) — Proof
Next we got bhavyatyagi (also many 1-2 solves in div 3s and 4s after becoming expert). Skips- Codeforces Round 884 (Div. 1 + Div. 2) — Proof
Next Abhi6645 (also has 1 solve in a recent div 3 after being Expert). Skips- Educational Codeforces Round 161 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof
Next is chiranjivikeshav (1700+ coder who couldn't solve even problem A of a Div 3 in codeforces round 974. Also a dumb serial cheater not good at changing code who can be banned anytime now). Skips- 1. Codeforces Round 881 (Div. 3) — Proof 2. Codeforces Round 895 (Div. 3) — Proof 3. Educational Codeforces Round 155 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof 4. Codeforces Round 906 (Div. 2) — Proof 5. Codeforces Round 980 (Div. 2) — Proof
Next we have khnhcodingkarlo who also teaches in TLE level 1 and 2. Skips- 1. Educational Codeforces Round 129 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof
Next we got harshit7650. Also he got 0 to 3 solves in Div 3s after becoming expert (3 is too low even for specialists) 1. Codeforces Round 833 (Div. 2) — Proof
Next in the list is Aniket19o7 (He too started getting 0 to 1 solves in Div 3s and Div 4s after becoming expert). Skips- 1. Codeforces Round 863 (Div. 3) — Proof 2. Codeforces Round 866 (Div. 2) — Proof 3. Codeforces Round 911 (Div. 2) — Proof
Next we got Punpun018. Skips- Codeforces Round 883 (Div. 3) — Proof
If we exclude Queue (though his case atleast was having too many alts), all the people I mentioned were the ones too obvious proven record of cheating that could be found with practically 0 research. There are countless more cases of people who escaped the skip process by changing their codes and this can be found by looking at the problems that solved in contests unrated for them like Div 3 and 4 if they are Expert. A more deeper research by comparing leaked codes with submissions of these mentors will lead to even more such cases coming out of people who are pro at cheating and also cheat in contests unrated for them (I don't know why). The information and codeforces profiles have been taken from the official website of TLE Eliminators and at the moment of writing this blog, it is accessible for public view.
Excluding Queue, the "too obvious" cheaters count is 16. Total number of people working for TLE Eliminators as educators/mentors/pcd heads is 42. So, 38% of the people working in TLE are too obvious cheaters with a proven record of cheating where you don't even need to collect proofs. This number will easily double up if we start collecting proofs such as their performance in unrated rounds or the number of times their submission idea for a problem matched a leaked code.
Priyansh31dec often posts on linkedin that getting high ratings in contests by cheating won't get you a job. Ironically, he is the one employing most of the people who cheated their way to expert or candidate master. The official site of TLE Eliminators says they have an awesome doubt support with most of the mentors Candidate Master or Experts. What it doesn't tell you is most of those "mentors" people cheated their way up to those ranks and can't even solve problem A of Div 3 on their own.
To the general audience — what do you think would happen to some beginner into cp who gets mentored by a cheater? Will he end up being honest or a cheater like them? That's TLE Eliminators for you in one blog. More detailed blogs will be released where I expose the mentors who didn't get skipped but have extremely poor performances in contests unrated for them (an expert not being able to solve Problem C of a Div 3 multiple times is a clear case of fakeness) or of people whose solutions in a contest got similar to the leaked solution too many times. I like data science so I will be exposing every cheater tle mentor not exposed in this blog with proper data and its results. If this blog gets deleted I will post it again. Priyansh is a very powerful guy who even forced the previous blog written here against is cheater mentor student duo to change the name of the organisation so he will definitely try it here too.
Let's expose this cheater making factory for good so that other innocent students aren't trapped by it. He might ask for fake comments in his support or to downvote this blog so if you genuinely were a student in some of his batches before and experienced some of these things, do write about your experiences and upvote this blog so that it doesn't get hidden.
I have a lot to say. I’ve been doing competitive programming (CP) for about a year. I used to be a complete newbie until last July when I came across TLE after watching his PCD videos on YouTube. I joined Level 3 of TLE, and at first, everything seemed easy. But I quickly realized that not everything is a walk in the park.
I know there are a lot of free resources available online, but it’s really hard to digest those topics and apply them to problems. I’ve tried the CP Handbook and the USACO Guide — both are excellent resources, but it’s difficult to learn them on your own. You really need someone to support you and help you understand. That’s when I started attending the lectures they offer and solving the daily problems, which have been incredibly helpful. A couple of months ago, I reached a rating of 1700.
Now, I understand you have a lot to say about this, but accusing people of cheating isn’t the right focus. It feels like a waste of energy, honestly. I don’t think people make a lot of money through this program. Priyansh, for example, has a job at Google. He doesn’t need to go through all of this just to get “exposed” by some anonymous person. He earns well and doesn’t have to work extra hard for some additional income.
He’s actually trying to build an ecosystem where everyone benefits, and paying 4k for the program is a small amount compared to other courses available online. When you consider the potential results, it’s worth it. If you think it’s too expensive, I’d suggest diving into the CP Handbook, checking out the USACO Guide, and joining Errichto’s Discord server for extra help.
Lastly, you might want to focus on building a career yourself. You’re probably in your early 20s, and it’s easy to blame and accuse others. But if you channeled your energy into something productive, you wouldn’t need to make these blogs your life. Waiting for you to expose me.. Please do it
How much free time do you have?
Bruh, false asf, my doubt support mentor solves till D in div2s
Bro, 3 of your 4 submissions are skipped and you are the one talking about cheating. Shameful. Queue is completely legitimate and a great instructor. I am pretty certain he is not a cheater. chief_27 is a cheater and Priyansh sir took appropriate against him. As for LazerRazor, I see no evidence he/she created an alt. The submission in the video seems to be from his original account 294550984 Aniket19o7 seems to have a lot of skipped submissions, but his rating graph looks decent so he/she may or may not be a cheater. Overall, many mentors have skipped submissions but also have decent rating graphs, so some might be cheating. But this doesn't justify you cheating yourself and then blaming others. Even though there might be some cheater mentors, Tle Eliminators is still a pretty good course which helped me improve my skills.
Look at the link, the PCD is being taken by Gaurish, a.k.a, Queue but when he shows his submission, the id is of LazerRazor, here: 294550984
I too like Gaurish's PCDs and admire his CP journey, but that in no way should stop us from holding him or others accountable. If he has cheated, he is in no position to be teaching others.
I hope this is all explained by some coincidence, but reluctance to hold people accountable only normalizes a culture of cheating, which harms CP culture in the country at large.
In this case doing the contest from an alt is not cheating as the contest was rated for all his alts and he decided to use only one of them and did not give a contest which was below his real level and ruining for other participants, I believe its totally legitimate and you are wasting your time making false allegations
The registration confirms that you:
It is surprising you have reached specialist without being aware of the terms of agreement.
I'm pretty sure giving a contest with only one account is legal, the reason the rule was created was to prevent the users from submitting similar solutions from multiple ids to get +ve delta on all the alts and spoiling contests for the other participants, in this case, Queue did no such things. Some people in TLE were cheating, however this shouldn't ruin the image of others who have done so much for the community.
Btw, speaking of alts, you registered 26 hours ago, solved watermelon and then immediately saw this blog and commented under it a huge message about TLE scams, the first thing you did after registering on codeforces, I think you being an alt yourself of tle_eliminators_cheats is 99% likelier than Gaurish sir cheating.
Please focus on grinding harder instead of these stupid allegations. I have already wasted a lot of time on these blogs, not gonna reply anymore to any comments.
I cannot help you if you have such little reading comprehension to somehow refute a direct quote from the the terms of agreement.
I created an alt account to maintain anonymity while posting this as I know the people mentioned here. I solved watermelon because solving a problem is a pre-requisite for posting comments/blogs. I am not using alt in a contest like Gaurish.
The last 9 comments on your profile reference TLE while the last 7 are busy defending them. If they were clean, they would need no defense. A simple clarification would suffice. I don't know if you are just a riled up seventh grader or paid by someone to fight for them but it is not going to help.
Priyansh31dec, I admire what you have set out to create, the kind of culture you want to bring to India. As someone who has recommended TLE to friends, these accusations are concerning.
The previous blogs by this person did not have concrete evidence but this is quite strong. So many mentors of TLE having skipped submissions is unacceptable and an insult to the students who pay a decent chunk of money to learn from them. It is also concerning to me that the selection criteria for mentors was so weak that their skipped submissions were never looked upon by someone before hiring them? I also never expected Queue of violating contest rules.
If there are mentors in the organisation who cheat and/or help cheat, then it tells the students that it is okay to cheat or that cheating is not a big deal in CP. Maybe they don't even think of it as cheating because they see their mentors doing it. If this is not resolved, then TLE would not only not benefit students and the culture, but instead would actively end up harming both.
If TLE were an online free resource, it would be less damning. But if students pay for your courses, they should get to see professionalism and good ethical conduct, instead of this.
I am confident that you never cheated Priyansh31dec, but since TLE is your creation, all of this also reflects on you too. At the very least it tells people you are okay with letting cheaters into your organisation.
My view of TLE and my recommendation to friends will completely depend upon how the organisations proceeds from this. Some structural changes and establishment of stricter checks is necessary. The students deserve better.