It is a kind request to @admin to reduce the length of long contests. 10 days is too much for 8 problems. Either you people should increase the number of problems or reduce the length to 6 or 7 days as most of the problems are solved within 3-4 days and many people keep waiting for the contest to end…
Please look into the matter.
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Agreed!
IMO it’s too long and most times after 5-6 days the difference between the current results and the final results is minimal which means most people have done all the problems they are able to do.
10 days is too much and I believe if the length is reduced it can also reduce cheating.
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If 1st day of challenege is on monday. Then it won’t be
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Long Challenge always starts on a Friday.
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No way this should be implemented. I agree because of 10 day length, there is a lot of plagiarism issues but as @aryanc403 said , many people solve on weekends and for such people two weekends is a must
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You feel 10 days are more than enough because you have time and you’re relatively free. Long is also meant for people who do not have much time. Also as @aryanc403
said 2 weekends are must.
People like me manage to participate even during end sem exams.
I can almost solve all ques (which I can solve in 10 days) in 2 days. That doesn’t mean we can reduce time to 2 days.
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yes the chances of plagiarism will increase because of the 10day long contest and i do feel that most of the people stop doing long after 1 week . I mean some problems are in no way solvable without editorial and sometimes its a waste of time . Moreover , these days there are fully pattern based questions which not only takes a lot of time to solve but also makes no sense in learning new algorithms
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I support @aryanc403, @l_returns as weekend is the most important time for working professionals as well.
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There is a difference between 2 days and 6 days… and if u want 2 weekends i guess Sunday to Sunday is enough…
ok…but don’t you see the plagiarism that happens… Also just see the codeforces contest time…only 2 hrs for 6 problems(which are of same or greater difficulty in comparison to long challenges)…even if you are getting 48 hours that’s enough…
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If professionals can participate in codeforces contest regularly then they can invest 2 hours per day on codechef also…
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Hi @anon95199559 there is difference between codeforces and codechef Long challenge.codeforces are timed contests conducted mostly at nights. Professionals generally will be late to home.so they may miss them. But when it comes to long challenge there is flexible to think of the problem in free time in office as well. So weekends are most important.
The best one(according to my opinion) is to have a long challenge of 4 days. Friday to Monday (SET 1) and second week Friday to Monday (SET 2). Kinda having two long challenges in a month, but with less plagiarism, or actually one with the scoreboard of both the contests merged.
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This is the reason why i hate hackerearth.
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Well… I should have mentioned both(plagiarism and contest solving in 4-5 days) in my concern…Sorry for that…
And regarding ARMYOFME, did you get AC on that problem??
Without AC, how can you be so sure that implementation will take more time…
Let’s leave the ARMYOFME problem, starting 5 problems and DIV-2 problems are comparable to cf short contest.
And if I get AC on ARMYOFME then only I can compare it with cf problem…
Can’t you read ?
See…if u compare previous 3-4 long challenges you will see that there is hardly 1-2 problems in overall which requires time while the motive of long challenge should be to introduce problems of new concepts and each problem should be of at least 1-2 hr…Also I have mentioned that number of problems should be increased…Don’t just randomly point out some problem of 6 months old challenge…Just see the level of Long challenge in 2014-2016 to now…
Why do you even care about plagiarism. Care about your own learning that happens due to long challenge. Is it like you cannot control yourself from doing cheating for 10 days ?
Why don’t you do cf round. We already have those type of contest. Why should they make all contest which suits you. Let long challenge be for others. You can enjoy your CF rounds.
No one is stopping you. You need less time (say x days). Just start looking at problems x days before it ends. Most other people including beginners need 10 days of time. You’re free to use less amount of time.
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Just don’t start contest for first 6 days and you won’t have to wait for anything. Issue resolved.
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That’s is not the case. They don’t do cheating for earlier days because contest is for 10 days.
If it will be of 5 days then they will start cheating early. Even one day is enough for cheating.
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