You win 300 laddus on winning a contest and a duck costs 1250. FML!
Edit: You can find the details here: The duck, the cube and the ball. | CodeChef
We have taken great care and effort to make these goodies for you. We had received multiple complaints from the community of using the same goodies again and again. People were tired of our t-shirts! Pen drives were too mainstream. And being the geeks that we are, we were having a hard time in coming up with good ideas of doing something different.
So though we we knew we would like to change the goodies, we did not quite know what to bring in. After a lot of pondering, brainstorming and thinking, we decided on these. And making them was not easy at all. It took us a lot of time and effort to get exactly what we wanted this time. Trust us. You will not regret getting them. Try out a few.
Regarding new goodies, certainly we will keep adding them. But then we know now that it is not an easy job. It takes us time. These should suffice for some time to come in future. We believe we have done a good job. We hope you will like them too. Let us know how do you feel about them. And do keep sending us your feedback. We are driven by it.
Seriously, its so demotivating that you canāt get anything after getting into top 20 of LC at least it should have been taken care that something costed less than 300 ladoos as we get only 300 ladoos after getting in top 20 in LC and its not very easy for an average contestant to achieve this frequently
And Removing T-shirt was seriously wrong decision because in my opinion t-shirt is most honored prize for a competitive programmer.
Also before this ladoo system goodies were sent to top 20 and now top 20 canāt get any thing (from ladoos of a single contest) it seems codechef is doing some serious cost cutting as 1 gets 2 smiley balls after getting into top 20 of 2 LCs .
Its better to have no prizes than this like CF rounds.
In my opinion, CodeChef should at least add one T-shirt for around 250 laddus. People who got bored of t-shirts could redeem something else but removing T-shirt is not a solution as many of us have never won any T-shirt and would like to get that so called boring t-shirt anyway.
I donāt really understand the āswagā in stress ball and rubikās cube . The āswagā part about tshirts was that you could wear them and brag about your achievement . Who is going to know you achieved a rank in long challenge when all you got was a lame rubikās cube and stress ball . Stress balls are like 5 bucks a piece xD .
Maybe the people getting āboredā of tshirts were the ones who entered top 20 on a frequent basis .For someone who did it for the first time , this is a huge dissapointment , after all the months of delay they could have come up with something much much better than this .
Please add T-shirt,pen-drives,diaries etc. at some reasonable laddus. If other top programmers are complaining that these things are too mainstream,then its better to provide everyone with more options(like the 3 ones) but what is the point in removing the mainstream goods.
What about people who have earned goodies before this new system was introduced? will they receive a t-shirt? or just some points?
Here is my bug report (One year ago):
Here is the response from team Codechef:
I didnāt receive anything.
Iāve never received a T-Shirt from a competitive programming website before, and this really means a lot to me.
Again, thanks for everything.
We want those T-Shirts back! And soon too!
Time to leave planet earthā¦
Atleast add T-shirts. As my fellow programmers have already mentioned, I feel it is the best goody to recieve and show-off your achievement by wearing it in publicā¦
I have been waiting for a few months for this system to begin but now I am disappointedā¦
The Rubiks Cube doesnāt seem to have any form of Codechef logo, itās just like a normal Rubikās cube, and it costs 2000 laddus (~7 contests -_-).
Why are there no T-shirts :ā(
Okay I have no laddus but still here is my opinion.
- As others said, every goodie is too pricy.
- Seriously why no t-shirts? Maybe top programmers are tired of getting too many t-shirts but many people still want it.
Goodies recommendations
- T-shirts, Hoodies, Caps with customizability like adding your handle or a quote.
- Pen drives, Mousepad
- Notepad, pen, bag, stickers, paper weight
- Cup, Key chains
LOL! xD
Epic Troll by CodeChef. I was really a bit dejected to see those goodies LOL.
Why canāt I click on the Add to Cart button for the T-shirt. (for others it seems to work fine) Is it a bug?
I miss that duckā¦ It was sooo cute
jokes apart, the same tshirt was given to winners from ā1 contestā earlier, now I need to win atleast 3
New goodies, ducks and stress balls removed.
T- Shirts are back.
This is not fair. Earliar we got shirt for ever contest. Now, to earn a t-shirt you need to win in 3 contests or more.
Not happy with the laddu system.
If you are in top 20 ,i mean u reached so far for a shirt?? oh no being in top20 is more rewarding than a shirt.man>>
but t-shirts must be there we want them soon
if iām in top 20 seriously speaking i donāt want any of these.i am working to be better itās good if they are encouraging us to participate.codechef wants more and more participants (firstly there were prizes for 1st abd 2nd) thatās why they added these things.
tshirts should be there but shirts .you are here for shirts