MIDORIYA_ A name that has become almost as well known for cheating discussions as for competitive programming.
For anyone who missed it:
- Five skipped contests.
- A spot on the Codeforces cheating database since last October.
- A jump to Master after solving five problems in roughly two minutes.
- Eventually, his own blog admitting he'd cheated before.
After weeks of demanding proof before anyone could accuse him, and insisting his recent results were 100% clean, he announced a plan to end the debate once and for all:
Record his screen during Educational Round 191. Upload it. Silence everyone forever.
Bold.
Confident.
Almost inspiring.
Then the contest happened.
He solved A.Then he took over twenty minutes on B. And then...
Nothing. No recording. No upload. No explanation.
To be fair, solving only A and B proves nothing on its own.
But combine it with everything else the admission, the grand promise, the unrated registration, the underwhelming result, and the recording that simply never showed up and it starts to look like a pattern.
If you tell everybody, "I'll prove it," people expect the proof to actually happen. Instead, what happened was the opposite. The blog where he admitted cheating and promised the recording quietly disappeared. Apparently deleting a blog was easier than uploading a video. Except the internet remembers. Deleting a blog doesn't delete screenshots. And it doesn't make a recording appear.
So instead of the recording, we got Upsolve It heavily promoted as a community contribution, until people noticed how closely it resembles ThemeCP. Apparently building a website was easier than uploading a video too.
And through all of this the admission, the broken promise, the deleted blog one thing never changed:
MIDORIYA_ is still listed in the Codeforces cheater database.
Still there for everyone to see.
One more thing
MIDORIYA_ is a leading figure in his university's ICPC community, publicly listed here:
codeforces.com/ratings/organization/41766
Take a look through that list.
Multiple accounts already banned for cheating. And just yesterday, one more account from that same community went from Newbie to Specialist by solving 7 problems in a single Div. 3 round.
Maybe it's a miracle. Or maybe a community that keeps producing bans, suspicious jumps, and rating miracles eventually runs out of people willing to call them miracles.
I'm not claiming this proves anything on its own. But given the timing, the history, and the company involved, it's a pattern worth a closer look.
Given the public history, the admission, the deleted blog, the missing recording, the promise that quietly evaporated, and a cheater-list entry that is still there for everyone to see this deserves a proper look from MikeMirzayanov and KAN.
Because if someone publicly promises evidence to clear their name, the least we can expect is for that evidence to actually exist.








