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CF 325 vs SRM 670
By enot110, history, 9 years ago, In English

I just wanna point out the problem, that these two contests (codeforces round 325 and topcoder srm 670) will be at Saturday at the same time.

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Possible duplicate — http://codeforces.net/blog/entry/20813 :)

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Looks like cf is doing a great favor to topcoder reducing a huge load(or vice versa)! Joking aside, let's look at some recent cf contest schedule here:

Sep/28/2015 — #322
Oct/03/2015 — #323
Oct/06/2015 — #324
Oct/10/2015 — #325

on average cf is holding 7.5 contests per month! isn't it a bit too much? average contest gaps should be 7 days in my view, which could attract more contestants :)

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    9 years ago, # ^ |
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    To sum up the above comment, I didn't support this collision and suggested to delay #325 to 1 or 2 days, which is similar to the enot110's post. But I can't understand why people are downvoting the comment and upvoting the blog post at the same time!

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      9 years ago, # ^ |
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      Your first comment sounds like "I want number of contests to be significantly decreased".

      I don't see any connection between this and original "please resolve clash" topic, and also I don't see any reason why I should support this point of view — your main reason is "it will attract more contestants", and for me current number of contestants at CF rounds is sufficient :) Moreover, TopCoder holds contests less often — and still not a lot of people are participating there :)

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      9 years ago, # ^ |
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      Since I want to compete more, and there is someone trying to ask the authority to reduce my chance of competing

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        9 years ago, # ^ |
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        Please read the comment carefully! I am not asking to reduce the contests, I am suggesting about the average gaps between the contests. If they have 4 contests in a row they can schedule each one on each week. If they schedule all on a week you will have to wait long for the next contest.

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          9 years ago, # ^ |
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          I am not asking to reduce the contests, I am suggesting about the average gaps between the contests.

          And what's the difference between decreasing the number of contests and increasing the average gaps between the contests?

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            9 years ago, # ^ |
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            Probably that in one case, there won't be a big gap (or that big of a gap) afterwards.

            I'm fine with any non-nearlyzero frequency of contests, as long as I have Internet connection when they're running.

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How about changing the time for this contest? It was originally set on Sunday. Why would you want to have people missing out on either one of these contests?

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    Moreover, I think, Saturday evening is a time to relax, not for coding. Really, programmers are people too, aren't they?

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      Relaxing and participating are not mutually exclusive :)

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Correct me if I am mistaken, but the contest has been moved to Monday.

Edit: Sorry, wrong time zone. :)

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    and for me also so we will compete together :D what about other contestants :D

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