Yesterday formidablechief27 posted a blog upon reaching the Candidate Master and tried to dig for fame from the CodeForces Community. I was happy seeing it at first but after going through his last 2 previous contests, I found something unusual in his submissions and somewhat similar to what was being used by the cheaters during the last 2 contests.

Codeforces Round 968 Div 2

(https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/2003/submission/278090340) -> A skipped solution for Problem D2 of a cheater

(https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/2003/submission/278166893) -> formidablechief27 code

You can check its just the same code transformed from C++ to Java

Codeforces Round 967 Div 2

(https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/2001/submission/277363370) -> Another skipped solution of the same cheater and being uphack

[](https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/2001/submission/277400152) -> formidablechief27 code

As the hacking period of this contest was already finished before, I tried the same hack generation on formidablechief27 code in my local system and guess what, it also did TLE, like the most of the cheaters who used the same logic for that problem D. Also the skipped user (a newbie) submitted the same code 1 hour earlier than formidablechief27. So it clearly proves that formidablechief27 got the plagiarized code from somewhere like many of those cheaters in that contest and he submitted it after converting it to Java from C++.

Its quite weird, how did he have the audacity to write a blog on reaching Candidate Master and teaching on YouTube for fame after knowing the truth himself of being cheating in the last 2 contests (who knows maybe many more). Now he has deleted his blog after seeing that many users would identify his cheat activity.

I would request MikeMirzayanov and zltzlt to look upon this and give the cheater the desired punishment that he deserves.