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2020 Humblefool Cup — Prelims
By hmehta, history, 5 years ago, In English

Topcoder and the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad are excited to bring back the fourth edition of Humblefool Cup Algorithm Match in fond memory of Harsha Suryanarayana humblefool. Learn More

Harsha is considered to be the best coder India has ever produced. A Topcoder member since 2005, humblefool – as he is known within the coding community – was a TCO Finalist twice. Up until his tragic death in an accident in 2014, Humblefool was at the top of his game in SRMs and personally trained and motivated many other members.

The Humblefool Cup is organized every year to preserve his legacy and contribution to the Community.

2020 Humblefool Cup Prelims is scheduled to start at 12:00 UTC-5 on March 4, 2020.

Registration is now open for the SRM in the Arena or Applet and will close 5 minutes before the match begins, so make sure that you are all ready to go. Click here to what time it starts in your area.

Problem Setters:  misof and timmac

Prizes:

  • The top 30 students located in India will be invited to compete onsite at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad for $500 in prizes.
  • The best-ranked _student_ in the qualifying round (_not located in India_) will be awarded $100 prize money.

Please Note: This round is rated and is open to all. However, only students are eligible for the prizes.

Some Important Links
Match Results (To access match results, rating changes, challenges, failure test cases)
Problem Archive (Top access previous problems with their categories and success rates)
Problem Writing (To access everything related to problem writing at Topcoder)
Algorithm Rankings (To access Algorithm Rankings)
Editorials (To access recent Editorials)

Good luck to everyone!

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Will this be counted for TCO?

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Gentle Reminder: The Round begins in less than 30 mins :)

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    Is it just me or are the topcoder servers really slow the arena window is loading since eternity :( .

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Why is this rated for all? Could you at least mention that you are not expecting div1 participants?

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    My bad! Should have mentioned the difficulty. I will make sure it is mentioned for these type of contests going forward.

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250 passing pretests without sorting the array is so evil :(

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Another notorious coincidence?
Click, click, click, click, click and click.

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    That's disgraceful :(

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    These 3 have been disqualified form the prelims including few others whoever used unfair means during the contest. Thanks for putting this up.

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      Nice to hear. I haven't any gain from that but I always like fair play in such things.

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When will we get further information about the onsite contest?

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    You will receive an email by this Monday. We are doing some strict plagiarism checks,

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      Good to know that you taken that situation seriously.
      Will the ratings be recalculated without affection of the users suspected in plagiarism?

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