New Rating Divisions (Div1/Div2) on Codechef

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I personally think that the border rating of 1800 b/w Div1 and Div2 is a nice Idea as it will pamper and push the contestants with rating just above 1800 to contest with good programmers which will help them refine their skills. There is no point in participating in a contest in which you can easily solve all questions of that division…

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I submitted a solution of div 2 question no 3. According to the rule it should not show my ranking as I belong to div 1, but it is showing rank 974 and score 0. Why is it so and will it affect my overall rating ? @vijju123

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Here is my one suggestion.We can have a system of adding friends in codechef, in the same way as in codeforces.This really helps as you get to learn the important optimization version of different codes of same problem from high rated coders.

This has helped me a lot previously, and I think it will be great help for newbies too.

@vijju123 , @admin, I think it will be a positive move for community!

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hello!
I think it will be very fun if the leader adds the user ranking by continent.
And also the ranking of countries by continent and in the world

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This is a very good step because it motivates users with lower rating. Earlier I used to solve upto two problems but now I solved 6 problem and even attempted the 7th (got 5 points).

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What if some school student in div1 purposely decreases his ratings to become div2 and win?

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Div 2 prizes are reduced to one-third for this reason. If we see such instances, adjustments will be done to decrease prize further/kill that motivation of malpractice. Thats why I would urge the community to do fair play- malpractices will likely just reduce the prize.

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No one will do that. The prizes in div2 are like 50 laddus.

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@mathecodician - We cannot assume that no one will do that. Some people feel they are too smart.

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A small edit: “>=1800” will be div1 whereas it is currently “<=1800”

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Corrected that @ista2000 . What did you edit @mathecodician? :o

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Number of questions per div in long challenge has been reduced to 8 or 2 more questions will be added?

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Reduced to 8 @abdullah768

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u r unrated anyway

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it would be better that admin should give all his charges to some other
codechef me ab wo pehle wali baat nahi rahi

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i am thinking for long but i couldn’t get !! why cc did this !
basically u have to solve the same 10 problem in div1+div2 combined
which we earlier used to solve in whole .
now 1-3* will have to solve 1-8 ques
and 4-7* will solve 3-10 questions
agar combined hi rehta aur 4-7* wale addition 2 easy question bana lete to problem kya thi
@vijju123 @admin
&& math wale bhai tu bhi thora soochne

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Would’ve been better if were 10.

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Yeah!!!

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The thing is, the pro coders complained that first 3-4 questions were boring, to them, because they were too easy. They had to do it because of points anyhow. Then, rookies complained of last few problems being overly tough and wanted easier contest. Pro coders wanted just the opposite.

If we segregate into divisions,then- if need persists, we can give div1 harder problems not shared by div2 and vice versa. Also, problems can change in future, perhaps it can become 10 problems to div 2 and 10 to div1 with minimal/nil shared problems.

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Suggested to @admin. She liked it. Thanks.

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