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Does cp t-shirts really exist?

By riela, history, 8 years ago, In English

I've seen some cp sites that ussually offers t-shirts as a prize.

If I'm not mistaken even cf has an official T-shirt (btw, how many of you have one?)

However it seems is just a myth because none of the t-shirts I won has arrived. In particular, neither topcoder open, facebook cup, yandex, ...

Does cp t-shirts really exist?

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Yes, they exist. This years Facebook Hacker Cup shirt arrived two days ago, the one from Yandex about a month ago. I overslept the important Topcoder round, so no idea if they shipped or not.

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I've won two T-shirts (TCO and Hacker Cup), and I know the companies shipped them because I received customs notifications. But, I live in Argentina... so, usual scenario, the customs staff stole them. The excuse I got was that "Textile items cannot be imported". Well, the thing is as of today, I have no CP T-shirt in my closet.

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Do non-CP t-shirts exist? ;_;

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I've got a t-shirt from TCO 2017 and it took about a year to arrive. If you have patience, I recommend sending e-mails asking for the t-shirt status (Have they sent it yet? Can they share a tracking number or some prevision on when will they send it?) and hopefully they will answer you (because sometimes they won't and you probably won't be able to do anything) — btw, I've never had problems with topcoder t-shirts (I have 3 of them).

After they send it, depending on where you live, comes the real challenge — I live in Brazil, for instance, and for delivering a single t-shirt it is asked you to pay taxes that can get about 4x the value of the t-shirt — once I was asked to pay 120BRL ~ 40 dollars (at the time, now it is 30 dollars T T) for a 10 dollars evaluated t-shirt.

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The real question is what to do with all these tees. I literally don't have enough space to keep them.

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I have a t-shirt from yandex algorithm 2017

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I received three (3) T-shirts this week.

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Some people have more t-shirts than they can use :)

Source: https://petr-mitrichev.blogspot.com/2014/01/this-week-in-competitive-programming.html

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I didn't recieve none of my Hackerrank t-shirts so far. I don't know about other sites.

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I received notification from Facebook but I didn't recevie a notification from TopCoder. Does somebody have similar problem?

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