Request for Review of Skipped Solutions – CF Global Round 29 (Div. 1 + 2)

Dear Codeforces Team,

I am writing to request your kind attention regarding an issue I faced in Codeforces Global Round 29 (Div. 1 + 2). Unfortunately, my solutions from this contest were marked as “skipped” due to suspected similarity.

After investigating the matter, I contacted the other participant whose code was flagged as similar to mine. We discovered that the overlap occurred only in Problem 2 (Multiple Construction). I would like to clarify that this particular problem had essentially one possible approach, which naturally led to similar logic and structure in many participants’ solutions. Additionally, we both used a common snippet, which is publicly available and could have been adopted by multiple users independently.

I want to emphasize that I did not engage in any form of misconduct. The similarity arose purely from the nature of the problem and the widely used snippet. This was an unfortunate coincidence, not plagiarism.

Since this is my official Codeforces account (linked with my college ID), such a flag is very concerning for my academic and professional integrity. I kindly request you to review my case and consider removing the “skipped” status from my submission.

I sincerely respect Codeforces’ efforts in maintaining fairness and integrity in competitions and hope you will look into this matter with understanding.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

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