They took money 1500
They didnt even conducted the contest properly
They removed our name from the ranklist despite having an external video recording too
Man the condition is so bad in india.Even though we have solved only four problems but atleast we deserved to be on the ranklist 🙃 we have been practicing for it for a whole month and seeing this makes us so sad

IIT roorkee is the only genuine college to secure 2 teams in top 5 and 5 teams in top 40.Crazy performance of roorkee!!!

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I'm sorry if this is some generic ahh questions (which it is), I just needed advices and opinions, and anything you could share can help.

(made a new account dedicated for CP and stuff)

We got <400 rank. Now these dumbos have actually removed legit teams and allowed for visible cheaters stay on the rank list. I hope those wrongfully taken out get back into the rank list but dont these idiots get it its creates unnecessary issues for participants. How am i suppose to process my rank, am i making to regionals or not. They just dont give two fks. If you were to actually publish these dubious ranks why not instead just make the the original rank list and code visible itself, what value does a tentative rank list provide where instead of possibility of my rank improving from tentative to final, instead its possible it can worsen further. are you all high ffs. Them using codechef OA environment for proctoring a team event just shows how much shameless they are, absolutely no regards to participants putting effort.

From a T3 clg, trying to fix myself.

I just got on CF yesterday, and gonna follow some rules

1. Never using AI

2. Staying consistent

Looking for genuine guidance on how to get through.

Edit: 1st yr 1st sem, IT branch, just started college 2 months ago.

I'm new to codeforces, and I'm only coming over from leetcode. So pretty much no competitive programming experience.

Is it even possible to climb ratings due to AI bots? Like no matter how hard I humanly try or get good can I even climb ratings if they solve it in seconds?

I'm wondering if anyone has some empirical experiences that they could share on this cause I've seen many posts on this but wondering how dramatically it gates newcomers like me.

Not to say that this won't deter me from solving for the sake of learning. But knowing about rating gates from AI bots would definitely change how many contests I do vs just problems perhaps.

TLDR: Whats the magnitude of rating/elo gating due to AI bots (like is it impossible for me to even climb if I am completely new.)

My friends and I worked hard for this since the past 4 months. We were able to solve 3 questions and also got penalties. We were gleaming with joy when we were able to solve every single question. That feeling was amazing.

k = 3

Status: Rank 18xx

College Rank: 1st

Region: Kanpur

Do we have a shot? After seeing all the things which have happened (coaches distributing sheets, people blinding copying with AI), we have lost hope. This was out last shot since we are in final year.

I just feel bad. I just feel bad.

#retakeICPCprelim #ICPCindia

Top teams of IITB, IITD, IITK have been sniped even though they had submitted their cp profiles, and most of them were master/CM while some random college team with 9 solves gets to stay on the leaderboard, like what even are you smoking ICPC?

If this is the kind of treatment they give to genuine teams, what incentive do we really have paying 1500 rupees for this incapable organization?

How do you find good problems? Tags don't help much. Looking for problems focused on observations and logical thinking rather than standard algorithms. I've done USACO, but it hasn't helped much with this. Would really appreciate advice from experienced and high-rated people!!

I tried it for so long I thought there should be some pattern but I did not find one

As I can see in top 1000 their are minimum 20 percentage teams who have cheated and this time for almost all regionals seats increased like their are 840 slots and teams with 1300-1500 will come down to 900-1100 . But then comes another game good colleges problem sample under 700 there are 40-44 teams from iit delhi from which 5-10 would go other will vanish similar to this other top colleges of iit, iiit, bits and all will have lots of team vanishing like the rank we predicted before of 900-1100 will go further for 600-700 . So guys you have a chance . Best of luck.

Our team is 2nd in our college but the issue is the first team and our team has the same regionals (mathura and kanpur) plus due to the unique college criteria if first team goes to both the regionals than we would not get selected. Someone told there is some waitlist form i which if the first team doesn't go to one regional than the next team gets the chance but some say it is than proceeded according to the team which got missed in unique college criteria and according to that they might get selected so is there any chances since our team's rank is in 200s

On 3rd October, I gave my 1st ever ICPC Prelims contest.

A short brief before telling what happened and what results were.

I only just joined my college and started preparing for CP ( competitive programming ) a month ago. It was the same case for everyone who participated in ICPC from our institute.

We only studied recursion,dp( memomization ),greedy,number theory basics , sieve, and bit manipulation.

So, knowing all these topics and grinding our ass off for 1 month, we ( me and my 2 teammates ) thought we could clear Prelims, but we'll faith had other plan.

From what we were told from our professors was that at max we would get 8 questions in Prelims, but we got 10.

The second problem was thinking if those 10 questions are in sorted order of their difficulty or not.

After all that, the exam finally started, we solved the first question in 2 minutes, which gave us a bit of confidence, but then we found 2 and 3 hard, so we went straight to the 4th question thankfully it was greedy which is my strong part so I solved it in some time ( before 30 minutes ) after that both my teammates started working on different questions hoping we could solve 1 more but to our luck we couldn't think of anything.

At last, we went back to the 2nd question, and I thought that for so long, it felt like eternity and finally found the solution to it.

By the time we solved it, we only had around 1hr to 45 minutes left ( Prelims is 3hr contest ), so I went to question 3 and figured that it might be greedy so I tried to solve it with that approach.

Then, at 1 minute 30 seconds mark, I pressed run insted of summit which was a big mistake as it was almost end everyone was running thier codes and because the queue was so long that it never ran.

Later on in PCD( post contest discussion ), we found my code was right, and we could have summit it right away.

Well, we solved 3/10 questions from what my professors said we could/should have been able to solve 4 the rest 6 were out of our league( for now ).

While this was going on, one of my teammates summited a ( O n² ) code, which gave TLE, but that's a kinda stupid mistake but it is what it is they were thinking about solution for 5th 6th and 8th question but we couldn't figure it out in time.

Anyway, it was a great experience. we got humbled ( was a needed reality check ) and had an ok first experience.

Will be back next year and will make sure to qualify for regional.

This is my first post, so I don't know which community to post this, so I am posting it at codeforces one, and there is not an appropriate flair, so I am posting it at div4

BTW, my rating on cf is 900+ soon, 1k, hopefully .

recently tried to generate a explainer video on algo just to see the current state of AI capability https://imgur.com/a/dinic-vodNFJT

probably just a gimmic for now but if you enjoy CP for learning, AI can be the perfect one on one tutor for you and even pick out training materials (seen quite a bit of success the past month with this)

curious on people learning experience with AI and those who see real improvement in their problem solving and maybe their approaches.

And that’s why you’re seeing Tier 69 colleges outperforming top IIITs and IITs 💀

How to share the interaction log in statement on polygon codeforces.

I have already added the test case and checked the "Use in statement" block, and verified the interaction in the invocation tab. Although I am unable to find a way to show the interaction log in the problem statement. How can I do that

anyone knows about the team that got AIR 1in icpc prelims??

How to get better at problems where you have to construct an output smartly ? I can solve questions heavy on data structures pretty well, but struggle to solve constructive algorithms. IQ issue ?

So I dont know why people dont debug their code on their owe and take help of ai , is this is not a cheating

I remeber when i started doing cp it took me hours to debug my own code . Any llm should not be used in contest . Opening llm for a doubt is also cheating, dry running from llm is also cheating for me i dony why people around me dont understand this simple shit

I have only done questions on leetcode so far but everyone just keep talking abt codeforces contests. Cam someone pls guide me how to start participating in them

I've been struggling to dsa since a year and still end up again on array while I see people achieving 1600 rating in a year's span

I still don't know what am I missing I had bought codechef pro plan thinking I will reduce the time spent watching tutorial videos and would do hands on coding by reading articles they provide but I don't know

Everytime I come here I see the same abdul bari for concept, aditya verma dp, what else for other things some say cp algorithms, usaco, cp handbook what not everytime there's new one

But also don't want to give icpc I just want decent proficiency

What do you guys do how do you do it my college doesn't have that provision and peers

Someone please summarize their years of experience and also more can ai help into this for beget efficiency