Not only this. The problems were poorly formatted, the I/O format wasn’t available and also they weren’t replying to the comments. My submission pretty much sums it up: CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone
I was doubting this throughout the contest when i saw the level of questions. A point might not sound good but that made me to doubt was that their college has a maximum of 4* rating profile. And the level of questions spoke something else at-least. By far the worst contest i took part in. , Might be the other questions are copied also , but tough to find out the questions as they changed the names and all.
Now a days it’s common on codechef, in the past 2-3 months the contests organised by institutions had most of the questions copied from other platforms.
omg!!! was the prize a joke. Completely unexpected. I don’t know about Plagiarism of questions but i can very surely say that the questions were very wrongly formulated(wrong language and many other errors). It was more of a mathematical patterns represented in form of questions to be coded rather than use of DS and algorithms. Proper error correction should be done before organizing a contest
Entire problem is same only the the names of characters have been changed.
This is unfair. We were not able to put this as a new question due to lack of enough karma.
Yes! The problem statements were not very clear. Even if the problems lacked explanations of the test cases, the doubts in the comment sections were unanswered. These things are very sad.
prize money is a joke! That too on such an international online platform like CodeChef is really something quite unexpected. @admin please have a look into such matters.