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Invitation to CodeChef September Mega Cook-Off 2018!
By DOlaBMOon, history, 6 years ago, In English

Hello CodeForces Community! We are excited to invite you to the September Mega Cook-Off 2018 sponsored by ShareChat. This time there are additional incentives to participate in the contest. Top 50 Indian students in the Cook-Off who are participating in the ACM-ICPC 2018 will be eligible for ACM ICPC travel reimbursement. Not just this! There are more reasons to be excited as ShareChat, our sponsor of September Mega Cook-Off is offering full-time job opportunities for programmers across the globe. More details can be found on the September Cook-Off contest page.

Joining me this time on the problem setting panel are:

  • Problem Setter: Odin- (Jafar A Badour), DOlaBMOon (Max Hsia)

  • Problem Tester: Pepe.Chess (Hussain Kara Fallah)

  • Problem Editorialist: taran_1407 (Taranpreet Singh)

  • Statement Verifier: Xellos (Jakub Safin)

  • Russian Translator: Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinikov)

  • Mandarin Translator: huzecong (Hu Zecong)

  • Vietnamese Translator: (VNOI Team)

  • Hindi Translator: Srijan Dubey

  • Bengali Translator:solaimanope (Mohammad Solaiman)

Contest Details:

Time: 23rd September 2018 (2130 hrs) to 24th September 2018 (0000 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone

Contest link: https://www.codechef.com/COOK98

Registration: You just need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. For all those, who are interested and do not have a CodeChef handle, are requested to register in order to participate.

Prizes: Top 10 performers in Global and Indian category will get CodeChef laddus, with which the winners can claim cool CodeChef goodies. Know more here: https://discuss.codechef.com/questions/51999/how-do-i-win-a-codechef-goodie
(For those who have not yet got their previous winning, please send an email to winners@codechef.com)

Good Luck!

Hope to see you participating!!

Happy Programming!!

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A little preview of what is going to happen in the ICPC India Qualifier Round. :(

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    Sadly, we will have one more preview before the official event.

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    And then Codechef's CEO will read someone's angry letter at a certain regional explaining how they tried very hard to conduct an online test with 3000 participating teams but their site couldn't handle that much server load.

    I don't understand the fact that Directi (a Billion Dollar Company) owns Codechef but they still can't code up a site that can handle this much traffic.

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Hard to enjoy the round between the Captchas and trying to load pages :(

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Great contest... Too bad you can't submit the problems...

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Site not at all loading, ranklist and problem list not refreshing, too slow

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More times proved than I'm not a robot than submitted solutions.

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Codechef needs some serious work on their site and its scaling.

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How to solve OneTwo ?

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Could someone tell what's wrong in this code for UPDOTR: https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/20313485

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Finally.....

Is the contest rated?

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"Top 50 Indian students in the Cook-Off who are participating in the ACM-ICPC 2018 will be eligible for ACM ICPC travel reimbursement." Why not consider top 50 of div2 also!?

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    Then top coders will make fake id's and win Div.2 .

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Well, today I realized that I am a robot. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z5qR26T_Pk-DXuauOl1vb4HREGzqeJ2l/view?usp=sharing

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    Why is codechef hosting ICPC qualifiers for India regionals? It doesn't deserve it.

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      Unfortunately, it is the best platform among all the options we have.

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      This is a bit harsh. Deserve is a very strong word. They mess up a lot and they shouldn’t because a lot of people depend on their product. Still, they host quality contests with quality editorials.

      Besides what’s the alternative?

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    Considering all the factors, the round must be declared unrated.

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codechef seriously need a break to fix their site insteading of making our worst experience with their site.

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