Good evening everyone. Today I wrote another round, solved problems from A to D. Then I decided to look into the standings) What I see: oreg0na1 takes second place in the official results)
I've been following this person for almost two months now and I'm writing this blog not because I'm angry at some random cheaters and because after their ban I'm ranked 97th on educational instead of ~150 and get +20 to my rating after rollbacks)
But because this guy is the organizer of the second club on sports programming at my university (we have two clubs on sports programming from different institutes, I clearly do not study in his club) ), in which students receive additional points for passing the session better, through internal competitions, (the section of my institute is more popular, and at the same time does not give out such points. It seems that his club was created precisely for the purpose of giving out additional points, because from what is also written below, he does not care about the quality of its own contests).
So far he has managed to make one competition, in which all the tasks are stolen from the CF rounds, without even changing the statements. The editorial of this contest contains just a copy-pasted solution code) And now he is already preparing to hold the second competition, which will be at the end of April. (https://mirror.codeforces.com/group/x9SwbpjD4G — link to his group) Apparently he receives a monetary reward for managing the circle, idk.
And since I don't want to see cheaters in my university (and especially those cheaters who also prepare competitions), I feel a little angry at what I'm seeing)
Why is he a cheater?
Firstly, if you look at the results of his participations, you can see 3 skipped contests.
Secondly, if you look at the dynamics of his submissions, you can see funny patterns in them)
Thirdly, we tried to write him a PM in Telegram, he admitted that he uses AI in online contests. (I have no proof of this point)
Why does he use it? For the sake of optimizing solutions and because these contests are held online... (no comments)
Fourthly, we have never seen him or his friends at icpc or similar offline competitions, although he is a second-year student. (as I understood, what he did before writing his first contest was creating websites and applications, then he suddenly upped his rating in four months to Candidate Master and took top 2 in div 2)
Also, what I don’t like is that it’s possible that in the next ICPC quals (it's held online), he and his club will take part and cheat, which means that honest people from my university won’t get into the quarterfinals.
Therefore, I ask MikeMirzayanov and the cf community to somehow take a closer look at this case, because I really don’t like it.
(I apologize for my bad english)
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why Tier_3_failure was banned? He is one of the good coders in 2025 from Canada. What was the reason behind disabling his account?
Also, oreg0na1 seems to be clearly involved in cheating.
maybe because he got ABCDF skipped in previous contest :)
No , nothing skipped in previous contest .
He is a Master-level coder. In the previous contest, Neowise Labs Contest 1 (Codeforces Round 1018, Div. 1 + Div. 2), he chose not to submit any solutions in order to avoid affecting his rating, as he wanted to focus on practicing 2400+ rated problems instead.
However, in today's contest, his submissions were disabled and skipped without any explanation. At the very least, a Master-level participant should receive a proper notice or message before facing such actions. Immediate bans or submission skips without clarification don't seem fair in such cases.
Lmao, he is still a cheater though. It's very fair. Like who tf solves a Div2F in 3 minutes, I don't think even tourist can do that. What more explanation is needed, lmao?
And recent contest blogs say you will be banned, no-questions-asked, if your found clearly cheating. Good to see they are following through with it.
Sorry but I think you need to see clearly there is 20 minutes gap between C and F just look into it
Look at the time of sending your solutions. You solve 5 tasks in 20 minutes. And then in every blog you accuse me of cheating. How many people have already written an angry comment about me, who either have a cheating solution from the Internet, or have already skipped solutions
oreg0na1 it's quite funny you are a Master yet you can't author a problem on your own and resort to stealing it from existing Codeforces problems when preparing a contest for your own club.
And it literally took me no time to identify that you cheat during contests..
We can see in the standings of Codeforces Round 1014 that you had two Accepted submissions for problem E, submitted 6 minutes apart.
Here are the two submissions:
first one (Skipped): 312995338
second one (Accepted): 312999128
with a standard attempt to change variable names and changing memory access techniques, a very typical cheating method used by most cheaters to bypass Codeforces' Plagiarism Detection System..
Are you also thinking to cheat in ICPC and train your club members to do the same, just so you can earn more monetary rewards?
I have nothing to answer you, I have already written a lot in the comments above about competitions and monetary rewards. Good luck