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Round #68 (Div. 2)
By csacademy, 7 years ago, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

We are going to host a new contest at csacademy.com. Round #68 will take place on Wednesday, February/07/2018 15:05 (UTC). This round will be a Div. 2, affecting users with a rating below 1800.

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Recently, Facebook has reintroduced the possibility of recurring events. If you choose "Interested" here, you will be notified before each round we organise from now on.

Contest format:

  • You will have to solve 5 tasks in 2 hours.
  • There will be full feedback throughout the entire contest.
  • Tasks will not have partial scoring, so you need to pass all test cases for a solution to count (ACM-ICPC-style).
  • Tasks will have dynamic scores. According to the number of users that solve a problem the score will vary between 100 and 1000.
  • Besides the score, each user will also get a penalty that is going to be used as a tie breaker.

About the penalty system:

  • Computed using the following formula: the minute of the last accepted solution + the penalty for each solved task. The penalty for a solved task is equal to log2 (no_of_submissions) * 5.
  • Solutions that don't compile or don't pass the example test cases are ignored.
  • Once you solve a task you can still resubmit. All the following solutions will be ignored for both the score and the penalty.

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CSA Round#68 is partially overlapping with CF round#461. I like contests on both the platforms. But this time I can participate in only one :(

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    As far as I know, the round of CS was declared earlier. :/

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We would appreciate it if Codeforces would respect our established time and day, Wednesday at 15:05 UTC. Thank you.

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    I have moved today's round 40 minutes later. Though it would be helpful if you can schedule the contests beforehand if you want some specific time, because I can't keep in mind established time for every platform. I check clist.by each time before scheduling contests, and make sure it is not occupied yet.

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@csacademy, How about it, there are so many people who wants to take part in both the contest,,,

Usual timings for contest are between (14:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC), but timings on CSA are bit inconvenient for other platforms,

How about changing timings for CSA USUAL contests on Wednesday to 14:00 UTC ?

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    Allow me to disagree.

    There are not nearly as many platforms so that the contests are held every single day of the week. There's always a free day for each platform.

    CSAcademy already surrenders the best days (Saturday and Sunday) to other platforms, I don't see why it's necessary to also surrender the best time slot (this slot was decided to be the most convenient to most participants by public polls on CSA).

    Also, as a side note, I understand that 14:00 may be better for you and some other people. But there's a nice example we have, topcoder, that tries to hold contests in different time slots. While commendable, it just doesn't seem to work (take a look especially at contests held at 1am UTC, it's just a waste of problems at this point, literally 0 people participate).

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Is it really good to turn the programming contest into math course ? problem Sliding Product Sum

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