Ended up procrastinating a little too much, so I’ve submitted the Problem Idea P1 (of three) at Problem Idea Submission | CodeChef to light a fire under my @$$
Let’s see if it gets a response!
Edit:
Skipped P2 for now as, despite having a working implementation, the Sketch Approach isn’t fully formalized yet, but submitted problem P3
Ended up submitting P2 last Tuesday, and it’s already been approved by @alex_2oo8 - that’s 2 out of 3 so far, with a very quick turnaround; kudos to the Codechef Team
They got approved on 22nd March and 7th April respectively. I prepared it and sent it, Admin recorded these problems on 28th March and 12th April respectively.
After that I havent got any reply from codechef, I did write a follow up mail 11 days ago. I didnt get any reply. Is there any chance I will get reply or I should use those ideas for another contest ?
Might as well give a quick update while this thread’s bumped
I submitted 3 Problems (P1, P2 and P3) and all were accepted quite quickly.
P3 was CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone
P2 I ended up withdrawing as I found a simple “cheat” approach that beat and couldn’t think of any testcases that would scupper it
P4: (Medium-Hard) : submitted in February 2020; no response.
P5: (Easy-Medium - or maybe plain Medium) : submitted 10th July 2020; no response.
P6: (Medium-Hard; possible plain Hard) : submitted 10th July 2020; no response.
So it looks like I just got lucky with the first three in that I got responses XD