Two days ago I wrote the following comment:

Mike doesn't care about cheaters, that's why nothing happened to pinkierabbit. Now cheaters are authoring rounds.

Then I went to eat breakfast and came back to see this:

What's going on here MikeMirzayanov? I don't see how this comment breaks the rules. Cheating is condoned with zero response while mods instasmack me for writing this? Reminds me of stefdasca's blog getting randomly deleted for no reason.

In addition to deciding to host the world finals in tents in the middle of the sweltering desert, in the home country of the most corrupt guy in the organization, now ICPC is preventing Ukrainian teams from flying the flag, despite the fact that this is nowhere stated in the rules:

41:34

(or https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxkueT7kGZpL0EXzrK-k4WJSyF1lFts5by to view the direct moment)

Guys, what the fuck is wrong with you?

It just says Invalid date when you hover the comment time. Previously it used to give the exact time the comment was posted.

Can devs do something? Thanks! MikeMirzayanov geranazavr555

Pros:

• Better acronym

Cons:

• None

Recently twitter has invented a new meme: shape rotators vs. wordcels. The gist is that some people are able to conjure and manipulate mental images (shape rotators) and others can't and must think in words (wordcels). Being a shape rotator is supposedly associated with success in STEM fields and high net worth. (Even Vitalik Buterin, IOI bronze, has tweeted about this.)

Of course, the rational question is: are shape rotators better at competitive programming?

There are a variety of tasks to determine if you are a shape rotator or not. Notably, the twitter meme began taking off with this image:

(Some individuals are unable to do this.)

There are a ton of other tasks associated with shape rotation. My favorite is zigzag (NOTE: if not working, use firefox), a rotation game where you attempt to last for as long as possible:

(If you can pass 1 minute in this game, you are most definitely a shape rotator.)

Two additional tasks are cubescore and apple, spoilered for brevity:

So, what's the relationship between shape rotation and CF rating? Let's find out.

Form link

Results will be available soon!

https://codeforces.net/contest/1237/submission/62742100

Looks N^3, but seems to be N^2 after constructing many cases. Any proofs/can you hack it?

Where am I supposed to click lol, I tried clicking everywhere but nothing came up

What's up gamers, it's time for my first blog post. Think about this:

Chess except on each turn you can move a piece 1/10 of a square instead of to the current squares. Each piece is limited to the range of motion afforded by their moves in chess 1.0 (which we now refer to as "Lame chess"). Like if you had a horse then you could move it in the direction represented by the <2, 1> vector but instead of being <2, 1> it's scaled down so the magnitude is 1/10. This way not everything is a straight line.

Pieces are represented as coordinate points, which start in the center of the cells that they start in for lame chess. When a piece enters another cell, if there is an enemy piece or pieces in that cell, then all enemy pieces in the cell will be deleted. Note: you can stack your own soldiers in a cell, that's what bunk beds are all about.

Truly this is the most intellectual game of all games. In fact, it's so intellectual that no computer has ever beaten a human in a game of chess 2.0. (That's because no computer has ever played a human in chess 2.0, but we'll leave that fact aside for now.) Compared to pathetic games like chess, go, and arimaa, chess 2.0 is objectively superior. Like, the game tree complexity is through the roof. (Probably. I haven't actually tested it. But if it's not through the roof, just change 1/10 to 1/100 or something; then I can promise you it will be through the roof.) What can I say except intellectual? In other words: big brain gamers only.

Sounds dope huh? As the world champion of chess 2.0 and the player with the most hours logged in game, I'm fully qualified to tell you that this game is absolutely, certifiably awesome. I'm releasing this as an open source (source = this post) donation to the community (I am truly generous, I know).

Chess 2.0. Impress your friends with your intellectual prowess (if you have any). Best game in the universe. Play now, in my codeforces dm's. TwentyOneHundredOrBust out