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[feature request] Blind hour in virtuals
By TripleM5da, history, 21 month(s) ago, In English

Why can't we have blind hour option in gym virtuals. I think it would make stuff more exciting.

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21 month(s) ago, # |
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Whoah! Great idea!

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Do you mean like frozen standings? Virtuals are fairly undeveloped, I guess there are way more essential features, than freezing the standings.

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    Which features are you referring to? (please list them)

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      21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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      I would love virtuals for basic codeforces rounds to be way closer to real rounds (or even better customizable), with scores per problem, pretests, etc

      Gym virtuals are a little different
      I guess most of my complaints are more about the all-around experience. We used to write a virtual almost every week with my team, so here is a list of my main concerns:

      • It's always a hassle to find a contest. We wrote some contests onsite, so we don't want to write them again. We have some upsolved problems (as a team) and there is no clear indication of that when you register. The filters to find the contest are just buggy (you can't search both with difficulty and name of the contest). And so on. We had to reschedule our training a few times because of this.
      • All the submissions are hidden. Idk any rational reason for this. Lack of editorials for gym contests is also fueling the fire. Just why?
      • In addition to OP it would be nice to see First-to-solve submissions in the leaderboard. And probably hide other participants verdicts while in a virtual. Get as close to the ICPC format as possible.
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        21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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        All the submissions are hidden

        You probably can read them with coach mode enabled.

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      21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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      One feature I don't particularly like about virtual on cf is ICPC styling scoring by default. Even if the contest is a regular cf contest which uses decaying points scoring, the virtual would be conducted in ICPC timed styled scoring.

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    If you think about it from a BE/FE perspective it's not that difficult they'll just add a new status which is hidden or pending and upon request from user they just need to do some timestamp checks.

    From my expertise it looks like a week's worth work and some sites like qoj and kattis already has it + there's already some kind of blind hour but it's just for the initial run not virtuals.

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      21 month(s) ago, # ^ |
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      it's not that difficult

      Of course
      A lot of things are
      It's just a matter of priorities
      But I suppose codeforces team is more focused on fixing the stability of the website these days

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What actually is a blind hour?

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    on the standings, you see that the team submitted on a problem but you don't know the verdict, only the team who submitted knows

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I think you can have it the following way. Copy the contest into a mashup, set a fixed start time for it, set the freezing duration and the unfreezing time.

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    Yeah that works and all but you know that's not same as the normal blind hour no pendings and all also it kind of sucks :P.

    Qoj one is really amazing thou it's the same as official contests one.

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