UEMCO question copied !

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I just found that the second question of UEMCO
CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone is copied directly from a hackerearth past contest Last Ant On Road | Practice Problems .

Not sure if any other question is also copied. But this acts are really demotivating and takes away the fun of contests. :frowning:

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Not only this. The problems were poorly formatted, the I/O format wasn’t available and also they weren’t replying to the comments. My submission pretty much sums it up: CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone

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I was doubting this throughout the contest when i saw the level of questions. A point might not sound good but that made me to doubt was that their college has a maximum of 4* rating profile. And the level of questions spoke something else at-least. By far the worst contest i took part in. :slight_smile: , Might be the other questions are copied also , but tough to find out the questions as they changed the names and all.

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link one more haha , tried acting smart by changing stories but could not.

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In total 4 questions are copied.

Among the rest 3, 1 question didn’t have good Sample Test Case Explanation.

While The other 2 are pattern Finding Questions.

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Now a days it’s common on codechef, in the past 2-3 months the contests organised by institutions had most of the questions copied from other platforms.

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omg!!! was the prize a joke. Completely unexpected. I don’t know about Plagiarism of questions but i can very surely say that the questions were very wrongly formulated(wrong language and many other errors). It was more of a mathematical patterns represented in form of questions to be coded rather than use of DS and algorithms. Proper error correction should be done before organizing a contest :frowning:

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This is very sad :frowning: Codechef must take strict action to avoid such kind of fake events.

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Reporting Plagiarism in CodeRoyale Contest Page | CodeChef
Questions are copied from other sites on the ongoing event
Contest Page | CodeChef

Question : CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone
Copied from : Programming Problems and Competitions :: HackerRank

Question : Link : CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone
Copied from : Luck Balance | HackerRank

Question :Link : CodeChef: Practical coding for everyone
Copied : Synchronous Shopping | HackerRank

Entire problem is same only the the names of characters have been changed.
This is unfair. We were not able to put this as a new question due to lack of enough karma.

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Yes! The problem statements were not very clear. Even if the problems lacked explanations of the test cases, the doubts in the comment sections were unanswered. These things are very sad. :confused:

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awful I/O format , this is what i can say!

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I wonder how did u searched it :stuck_out_tongue:

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Copying codechef’s question in codechef itself XD. Pro level :P.

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Are you sure that the rest 3 are not copied ? XD

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2 are Pattern Finding. And I don’t if the other problem is copied.

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oh, and the 50k prize was a joke too, one of my friends at uem told me! (after i wasted my time in that contest)

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actually that is a SPOJ question. (question was posted in SPOJ before codechef)

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for pattern finding, there are sources too.

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prize money is a joke! That too on such an international online platform like CodeChef is really something quite unexpected. @admin please have a look into such matters. :confused: