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By General_Relativity, history, 2 years ago, In English

Why doesn't Codeforces force the contest authors to submit both the problems and editorials when accepting a contest? It would be really helpful to be able to access the editorials right after the contest. There are cases where the authors would want to target specific mistakes done by the participants (during contest) in the editorial. But I've rarely seen such detailed editorials. Most of the time, the editorials are straightforward solutions to the problem. If that is the case, then I don't see any harm in forcing the authors to be prepared with the editorial before the contest itself.

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By General_Relativity, history, 2 years ago, In English

I am new to competitive programming. I thoroughly enjoy watching top coders solve contest problems live / in a virtual contest. In fact, it was the tourist stream that inspired me to start competitive programming. Unfortunately, both tourist and Errichto have stopped streaming (the last youtube video was uploaded 6 months ago). I would've loved to watch their streams after the contest (in which, even I participated). Does anyone know the reason? Was it covid (lockdown) that made them do the stream but they eventually stopped?

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