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the maroonrk interview — Competitive Programming Podcast
By MladenP, history, 38 hours ago, In English

As promised, here is the second interview from Japan — with one and only Riku maroonrk Kawasaki. You might know him from often being in the top 10, but he's also writing and coordinating some of the best contests in the world — the AtCoder Grand Contests and World Tour Finals. Apart from this, he is also an IOI and ICPC WF gold medalist!

We talked about about his criteria for great problems, being part of Japan's golden IOI generation and working at AtCoder. If you want to see these interviews before I post them here on Codeforces, make sure to subscribe!

I hope you'll enjoy it!

Our previous podcasts in case you missed them:

PS. I recorded the next episode a few weeks ago. Wanna guess the guest? Here are some hints:

  • He's a past ICPC World Champion — but not in the last 10 years!
  • On IOI he won a silver medal.
  • He's participating in the 2025 Universal Cup Finals.

Winner gets to see the interview a bit before it's released next month :)

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37 hours ago, # |
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I am enjoying this.

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37 hours ago, # |
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The next guest is surely pashka

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33 hours ago, # |
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next interview is tourist

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Definitely pashka

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The next guest looks very much like pashka

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Watched it, top interview and top content Mladen.

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