Codeforces orgainises a huge number of short contests every month while codechef organises only cookoff , lunchtime and starter for div3.
shorter contests needed to be increased as long challenge involves mass cheating
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Do they even have enough harder problems to increase the contest count if they wanted to? I’m pretty sure their bottleneck even at this point is Medium+ problems, which is why they at least introduced the Div3 contests where even the last problem can be Easy-Medium.
Frankly the Codeforces model works of “Contests will be held when a good problemset is ready” is probably the best balance between problem quality and contest frequency.
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Yeah, @explodingfrz is correct - there is a lack of Medium+ problems that we have to even consider increasing the frequency of any Div1 contests.
The only possible alternative is to hold more Div3/2 contests, similar to Codeforces (even Codeforces on an average has 2 Div1 contests in a month).
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