Invitation to D'code [Rated for Division 2]

akshay125 · October 29, 2019, 6:18pm

Greetings CodeChef Community!

I would like to invite you all to participate in D’code by Amalthea, IIT Gandhinagar. The contest will be 3 hours long and will contain 7 problems.

The contest is rated for Division 2.

All users from Division 1 and Division 2 are eligible for cash prizes of INR 15000.

The problems are prepared by Sachin Yadav.

I would also like to thank Arjun Arul, Taranpreet Singh, Smit Mandavia, Swetanjal Datta and the rest of the CodeChef team for helping with testing and reviewing the problems.

Contest Details:-

Start Date and Time:

1st November 2019 (21:00 hrs) to 2nd November 2019 (00:00 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone

Registration:

Please register on the Amalthea website here.

You just need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. All those who are interested and do not have a CodeChef handle are requested to register in order to participate.

Prizes:

Winner - INR 9000/-
1^st Runner up - INR 4000/-
2^nd Runner up - INR 2000/-

Good Luck!

Hope you enjoy solving the problems!

devshiv · October 30, 2019, 9:25am

AC will mostly not turn into 15k.

aryanc403 · October 30, 2019, 9:27am

Thats local variable.
Its value outside scope…

devshiv · October 30, 2019, 9:29am

haha, on point!

akshay125 · October 30, 2019, 1:35pm

Yeah. Most of the “AC” won’t turn into 15k.
Not even the winner’s ACs would fetch him 15k (it’s 9k)
I guess others might have to be satisfied with the thrill of getting more and more ACs and seeing their CodeChef ratings go up.
We forgot to add a line here

if(position > 3) { CashPrize-=15000; satisfaction+=15000; }

Now I think the program should give the correct output.

Do participate in the contest @devshiv. Hope you enjoy the contest, more than we enjoyed preparing it.

akshay125 · October 30, 2019, 1:55pm

I am relieved that at least someone didn’t point out that the “15000/-” is invalid for an integer value.

Let’s initialise CashPrize=0, as if someone doesn’t get any “AC”, most probably ( PS: I mean definitely here) he won’t be getting the prize.

Looking forward to seeing you in the contest @aryanc403 and giving tough competition to all the participants for prize money.

devshiv · October 30, 2019, 2:25pm

you are going really deep.

nagpaljatin141 · October 30, 2019, 3:10pm

I think you should try to provide us with live ranklist(Div. 1+ Div. 2) during the contest, so that atleast we know who we have to compete with and how much better we need to perform for prizes

devshiv · October 30, 2019, 4:27pm

what!?
they don’t provide ranklist?

akshay125 · October 30, 2019, 5:09pm

Yes, we also believe it to be helpful for the participants. We will try to provide the live ranklist (Div 1 and Div2) in the contest (but cannot assure as of now). We have asked CodeChef team regarding it. Will post when I get updates from them.

nishant403 · October 30, 2019, 5:21pm

The contest is rated for Division 2 , But Both Div.1 and Div.2 are supposed to take part in it.

So will there be some extra questions which are hard meant for div1 contestants ??

or will you fill the gap by heavy constraints with partial marking… ??

or it will be speedtyping contest ??

ajraj27 · October 30, 2019, 5:41pm

Hey, this contest is coinciding with the timing of Codefoces round.Can you please look into it.

akshay125 · October 30, 2019, 5:43pm

The questions are well-balanced, so there is something for everyone to learn from it.

As mentioned there will 7 problems, there are no separate questions for Div 1 users.

l_returns · October 30, 2019, 5:46pm

What can be done now. 8 to 10 is very bad timing. One can’t manage another contest on same day without clash.
If would have been better if codefores round was from 7 to 9 or 10 to 12.

akshay125 · October 31, 2019, 8:05am

We had requested this from the CodeChef admins, but currently they are unable to do so because they are working on some upgrade to the rank list.

In short, live rank list for combined Div.1 and Div.2 won’t be possible for this contest.

ssrivastava990 · November 1, 2019, 2:30am

As the long challenge also starting but how rating will be calculated , after long challenge or on 2 Nov.?

anon70990627 · November 1, 2019, 3:57am

After Long Challege. The same happened before.

akshay125 · November 1, 2019, 9:34am

l_returns · November 1, 2019, 11:41am

As of now you can check both ranklist individually.
I think you can estimate your rank for prizes.

akshay125 · November 1, 2019, 1:40pm

Thanks to the CodeChef admins, now Div 1 users can also get live rank list during the contest.

There would be two individual live rank list for Div 1 and Div 2.
So Div 1 users would get to know their rank among other Div 1 users and people can keep track of both the rank lists for a good idea of their combined ranks.