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!!
A little preview of what is going to happen in the ICPC India Qualifier Round. :(
Sadly, we will have one more preview before the official event.
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.
Hard to enjoy the round between the Captchas and trying to load pages :(
You sure you're not a robot?
Great contest... Too bad you can't submit the problems...
Site not at all loading, ranklist and problem list not refreshing, too slow
More times proved than I'm not a robot than submitted solutions.
Codechef needs some serious work on their site and its scaling.
How to solve OneTwo ?
On prefix and suffix array, calculate maximum odd/even elements.
Can you elaborate a bit more please ?
If a subarray sum x is possible to obtain then x-2, x-4 and so on are also posssible to obtain since the array has only 1s and 2s. So we find the maximum odd number and even number possible.
Soln: https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/20319085
Thanks :)
Could someone tell what's wrong in this code for UPDOTR: https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/20313485
Finally.....
Is the contest rated?
"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!?
Then top coders will make fake id's and win Div.2 .
Well, today I realized that I am a robot. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z5qR26T_Pk-DXuauOl1vb4HREGzqeJ2l/view?usp=sharing
Why is codechef hosting ICPC qualifiers for India regionals? It doesn't deserve it.
Unfortunately, it is the best platform among all the options we have.
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?
codeforces itself
Considering all the factors, the round must be declared unrated.
codechef seriously need a break to fix their site insteading of making our worst experience with their site.
dafaq is insteading?