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Clashing ! Why ???
By allllekssssa, history, 9 years ago, In English

Hello,

Today I see two interesting contests — HackerRank 101 Hack and CodeChef Cook-off. Usually I am trying to do both, but now I must decide for one (like all other contestants). We have a lot of conflicts in Coders Calendar, a lot of interesting contests are on the same day and many times like this one they are at the same time! I think that shouldn't happen, month has 30 days and we have at least two times less important contests of big sites.

For me, priority should have the following rounds :

Codeforces: Div 1 and Div 2 rounds — we around 6 rounds per month

HackerRank: 101 Hack, HourRank — 2 contests

TopCoder: SRM matches — 3 per month ( I think we don't have more this rounds, but I don't participe in it ).

Codechef: Cook-off, Lunchtime — 2 contests

HackerEarth: Easy contest — 1 per month

I didn't mention longer contests, because clashing isn't important for them. Everyone has long window for showing its skills.

In total we have 14 short important rounds per month, and we have around 9 free days (weekends : Saturday and Sunday). And we can not forget Fridays afternoon, many rounds can be held then. So why administrators of this sites don't make deal about distributions and dates for all this contest one month before ? I think that is possible and distribution can be very good for everyone. For example :

  • 3 weekend CF rounds

  • 2 HR weekend rounds

  • 2 Topcoder weekend round

  • 1 Codechef weekend round

  • 1 HackerEarth weekend round

Maybe another solution is organizing more contests at the weekends but starting time for some rounds can be good for Eastern countries ( like HourRank 3 or many TC contests).

I would like to hear your opinion about this idea, whether it is possible and acceptably for you?

Especially I glad to hear opinion of administrators of this sites, I talked with many of them before, but we didn't disscuss about this topic.

Regards.

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Please can you explain the problem that you have with giving the contests on days other than Saturday and Sunday ?

Edit: Please ignore I didn't read the blogpost properly

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    Did he say that he has a problem with that, at least what I understood is that even if those are the only dates (including some friday nights), it is still possible to make the contests without clashing :)

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    I don't have any problem with other days, everything is better than clashing! Only I said that possible every of this sites like to organize its rounds for weekend because the most coders are free.

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I posted this on codechef one week ago. I also sent HackerRank mail about this on Wednesday/Thursday but there was no reponse.

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Can't open problems on codechef some technical difficulty. Well that solved the problem of clashing. Now lets get ready for 101hack!

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    Precisely why I don't do Codechef, I have participated twice, I think, and both times the site was quite unstable and most of the time I couldn't see the problems...

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