Congratulations to Geothermal for winning Meta Hacker Cup 2025!
On Saturday, 18 October, the final and only round of Meta Hacker Cup 2025 was held. Geothermal managed to AK the contest in 35 minutes and 35 seconds with a total penalty time of 1:28:26. Not only is an AK of the final round incredibly rare, but Geothermal also achieved it at record speed.
I have heard that next year, submissions will continue to be clarification-based. They will also introduce a new rule not to release Round 1 results before Round 3 is concluded. I wonder how this would change the meta.
THERE WONT BE ROUND 2 AND 3?
mb the joke went over my head
Rumours say that next year they’ll introduce a new submission method: print your code and outputs and mail them to the Meta headquarters. Can you confirm it?
It sounds like a big step toward improving participants' experience; in fact, postal delivery is probably much more reliable and optimized than the current Meta Hacker Cup system.
but i dont have a job so no money to send post RIP
indeed
ma indeed
What will happen first?
can you tell what you did different in 2018 that led to that rapid rating growth
we got FHC results before GTA 6 :O
Maybe because Meta is using AWS.
But am I allowed to use AI for my clarifications!?
That's why you don't participate in this scam :)
I respectfully and confidently claim the top title, as I am completely sure about everybody else above me in the standings getting FST, although We will never know :(
geothermal is goat
Lol i thought jiangly was the next goat but here we have an underdog who comes out of nowhere and destroys the most famous legendary coders easily haha.
Geothermal is not a underdog, he is a well-known LGM
Bruh do you understand how many followers jiangly, tourist etc have. It's more than 40,000. If you believe the codeforces metrics are real then they are the brad pitt and tom cruise of competitive programming.
Geothermal was the only one who could compete with tourist in terms of speed of solving easy problems back when I used to follow the contests closely. Of course there could be others (and there were probably others too), but I was always a fan of Geo especially coz of his solution streams and screencasts. So it is not a surprise at all that Geothermal won this round, which according to many was an easy round. Definitely not an underdog if you've seen his speed in past div2 contests. More like a favorite for these rounds.
I was literally about to win this, thought it was just round 1 so I solved only 3 anyway it doesn’t matter, results will never be published otherwise I’d be the winner.
You need to work on your clarification prompting
Congratulations
Had to check that the date wasn't April 1