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Reply Code Challenge 2023 — Teen & Standard Edition
By ReplyChallenges, history, 21 month(s) ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!

We're glad to invite you to the upcoming Reply Code Challenge, on 9 March 2023!

Reply Code Challenge 2023

The Reply Code Challenge is a free online team-based coding competition and you can choose between two different edition:

  • Standard Edition: a challenge that consist in a optimization problem, designed for university students and professionals.
  • Teen Edition: a challenge that consists of five algorithm-based problems, designed for students aged 14 to 19

Great prizes are waiting for the winning teams:

  • Standard Edition: Each member of the first-placed team wins a Mac Book Pro™ 16. The second-placed team members each win an Oculus Quest 2™, the team members placed third in the ranking each win Apple Air-pods Pro™
  • Teen Edition: 5000€ for the first team in the leader board, 2000€ for the second and 1000€ for the third place team.

When&Where?

Online at challenges.reply.com on March 9th 2023 from 4.30pm to 8.30pm CET. To play you must form a team by March 8th.

Need a team?

Join the official Reply Code Challenge Discord Server, train, discuss and form a team.

The Reply Code Master team!

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Reply challenges are usually of very bad quality. Even worse then codechef long challengess.

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5.000€ for the first team

Waht? Five euros? I can barely buy a Mcdonalds with this prize money. Is this a joke? Are we beggars or something?

edit: notation differences

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    But why did they print three zero in the decimal form.
    I guess they did cout << setpricision(3) << 5 ;

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    Hi NaOH_Frog! Money prizes are 5000€, 2000€ and 1000€ respectively (5, 2 and 1 thousands of euros)

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      Whoops, funny typo then

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        In Italy, for numbers, we use "." instead of "," and viceversa

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          Oh no till now I thought that you guys are Indian lol

          Anyway sorry for the misreadings. Contest looks fun though.

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It seems like a lot of people were stymied by "The solution file is not correctly formatted" errors. I was able to finally fix mine after a few hours of banging my head by forbidding snakes from going through more than one wormhole. Any insight into what the issue was? I see on discord that some people were actually able to submit valid solutions with more than 1 wormhole/snake.

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    Same here, spent almost the whole contest getting that error. For the wormholes, I think it has something to do with the snake's length after going through them. That was the issue for me.

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