Hello!
We are starting to test the long-awaited feature of non-rated registration for rounds. Here’s the plan: we will first test this feature in Testing Round 19 (Div. 3). Then, we will apply this innovation for ICPC-like rounds (Div. 4 Rounds, Div. 3 Rounds, Educational Rounds). After we have tested the feature in ICPC-like rounds, we will start using it in other types of rounds as well.
Here’s how the feature works:
- When you register for a round (if it is rated for you), you can choose non-rated registration if you do not expect to perform at your best (for example, if you might be interrupted during the round).
- You can change your registration type (rated or non-rated) BEFORE THE ROUND STARTS. Once the round starts, you cannot change your registration type.
- If you register for a round after it has started, you will automatically be registered as rated (if the round is rated for you). In other words, you will not be given the option to register as non-rated.
- After the round, the rating will be updated only for those who participated in the round and had a rated (regular) registration.
During the round, you will not be able to see whether another participant is registered as rated or non-rated. You will be able to find out later by checking if their rating has changed.
We urge you not to abuse this feature in the future and to try to participate in rated mode. Use this option only if you have a valid reason.
Let's test the new feature together: participate in Testing Round 19! We advise you to randomly choose your registration type so that we have both rated and non-rated registrations.
After the round, we will temporarily recalculate ratings to ensure everything works correctly. After that, of course, the rating changes from Testing Round 19 will be removed.
Thank you for participating!
UPD: Thank you all for testing! Share your feedback in the comments. The ratings for this round will be rolled back within a few hours.
hoping positive delta
does choosing rated in testing will change my rating. ?
Mike said:"the rating changes from Testing Round 19 will be removed."
Is it ok that I can't register in unrated mode?
In the upcoming div.3, I registered as a rated participant. If I become expert in tomorrow's div.2 will my participation in the div.3 be automatically changed to unrated, or will it still remain rated for me?
I cannot register?
"Rating should be between 0 and 1,599 in order to register for the contest"
Please, try again. Thanks for testing!
Works as expected now
Is it rated? xD
the rating changes from Testing Round 19 will be removed.
it's a meme 1331A - Is it rated? 1505A - Is it rated - 2 1663D - Is it rated - 3
maybe a prior announcement would've resulted in more participation.
Will the rating change be calculated based only on rated partecipetion or will unrated users also count?
only who choose it to be rated* . Otherwise what is there to test, it would be same as a normal div 3
ohh my god... I didn't know about this... can someone please tell me, if contest will be rated for me or not :| . How do I check whether I registered rated or unrated !
I wasn't aware of this. First time in my life, I have chance to reach close to CM, looks like I messed up due to change in registration process :| . :(
hooray! >.<
Good initiative, this will definitely reduce alt participations
Wow, amazing!
Truly the comment of all time.
Great. You won't be waiting till the end of a contest to practice virtually :)
Это супер! Мой блог отчасти пророческим оказался) Теперь будет меньше тех же твинков, созданных ради неполного написания раундов (такое могло быть, если знаешь, что нужно будет уйти, но хочется порешать сейчас и т.п.), которые портили систему рейтинга :)
Также, мне кажется, что было бы неплохо сделать, что если ты зарегистрирован на раунд рейтингово, но не делаешь ни одной посылки, рейтинг все равно меняется. Из-за того, что сейчас это не так, есть люди, которые заходят на раунд, смотрят задачи и в зависимости от этого решают, будут они его писать или нет.
Я был зареган на предпоследний контест, но, из-за технических неполадок, не мог начать решать задачи в течение 15 минут. Очевидно, я не стал его писать, а вот если бы стал, отрицательная дельта гарантирована. И я уверен, есть множество других причин, чтобы зареганные юзеры не писали контест.
Еще можно зарегистрироваться и забыть про раунд) Наверное не стоит за такое -100 давать
Да, правда, бывает) Тогда как решение можно снимать рейтинг только если зарегистрирован + открывал раунд/задачи во время проведения, вроде такая схема неплохо работать должна.
are there original problems lol
Is it possible to change back to unrated after going from unrated to rated?
Yes, you can do it by going to this link
Thanks!
Right now, if one registers for a round and does not make a single submission, their rating does not change. Will this rule change? If I register for a rated participation and forget about it later, will I lose rating?
Right now this rule still works.
Similar to AtCoder, I guess (which is a welcome change)
Update: nvm T_T
In atcoder though, when you register late you are automatically unrated.
Here, you are automatically rated if you register late.
if I participate as a rated participant but didn't submit any code, will I get negative delta ?
Thats a great idea!!!
On registration page there is "Read the details in this post.", but post is inaccesible
wait
Shouldn't this be the opposite? Like if you start late there is all the more reason that you might have assessed that you will do well in this round by seeing the questions. It's also not too far fetched to say one might also solve questions in those 10 mins of late registration wait, making it essentially the same as rated registration from the start, so really it's just rated registration with an advantage of assessment and disadvantage of not being able to do AC in the first 10 mins.
I personally don't see any reason why both options can't be allowed during the round.
What if someone spends first 1h of the round cracking D1D-D1E solution, and if they are suceeding, right before submitting it, change participation to rated.
let's do some speedrun
Just curious, who are the writers of this round?
no way!
If this feature is applied to div1, due to the limited number of rooms in div1 (only about thirty to forty), some groups might collectively become unrated and write incorrect codes. If rated and unrated participants are placed in different rooms, it would contradict the rule: "During the round, you will not be able to see whether another participant is registered as rated or non-rated." So why should participants be prohibited from knowing whether others are rated?
Indeed. This would also break rating predicting tools like carrot, specially because people participating unrated are expected to perform worse on average. Unrated users could show as "out of competition" just like Div1 participants show on Div3 or EDU standings.
Rated trying to hack unrated and viceversa doesn't makes any sense. Totally agree with you.
Also
I think the AtCoder version (i.e., you will automatically be registered as unrated if you are late, and rated participants will have rating changes regardless they submit or not) is more reasonable. As that's exactly AtCoder want to do with those dudes checking AGC F first and if solvable then submit and gain positive delta, otherwise skip the round.
Right now the participants can register as rated, and leave the contest without making any submission after reading the problems. So I don't think it's any worse than the current situation.
I would have thought that Mike will adopt the whole AtCoder solution, as I expected here.
Just atcoder thing, well nice initiative.
Giving Random Div-3 in the middle off night — Check
In C2, there is $$$O(N^2)$$$ solution: 278565894
Can anyone try to hack that?
UPD: Hacked
the fact that u can still register for a round after it has started makes this feature useless the main thing i see in this feature is that it should not allow users that only participate if they like the problems and know their solutions , i suggest removing registration mid round
thats exactly what i said ?? you shouldnt be rated if u register mid contest because u know the problem statements and u have the option to either participate if u like them or leave it if u feel like u are gonne drop rating this whole idea should be handled
print("Rated") Output: Unrated
my rating decreases by 120 :(
What'd happen to CF Predictor, Carrot, etc. when this feature would be implemented?
https://codeforces.me/contest/2010/submission/278562743
This is my submission for C1
Can someone please explain why my answer for test case 114 is wrong?? Cause it seems correct to me..
You need to change the condition from while (j > i) to while (ind >= 0) to ensure it checks all characters in both strings
I did not understand. My submission:278637289. I checked the output my code gives for the testcase, and I think it should be correct? Can you please explain why it isn't?
Input axqucrgfdshcpqjcqaxquczgfdshcpqjcqaxquczgfdshcpqjcqaxquczgfdshcpqjcqaxquczgfdshcpqjcqaxquc
Participant's output YES axqucrgfdshcpqjcqaxquczgfdshcpqjcqaxquczgfdshcpqjcqaxquc
Jury's answer NO
In the first while loop, it won't check all characters because
j2should continue beyondiso we need to check onlyj1to avoid going down to zero so it can be:while (j1 >= 0)And in the condition after the loop, the characters don't always align at the end, as seen in test cases like
abcabcabcabcthe answer will beabcabcabcthey don't meet at
j2 == i-1Instead, you should check if the first character of the second string falls within the range of the first string. The
j2value should be in the range0 < j2 < i, but becausej2is decremented before exiting the while loop, the condition should be:if (match && j2 >= 0 && j2 < i-1)You can check this submission after making those updates: 278643526
We both ( in the red circle ) are newbies, we both solved two problems, I solved both faster than Hasan22_1 but he got +111 and I got +25 MikeMirzayanov
it's nice feature btw and I guess it will save time to test all submitted solutions.. Thanks for adding this
Refer to how rating system work on codeforces link
ohh aight, thank you
Can I ask why? It looks very weird to me that someone decided to participate as non-rated, but they still have a place in the standings table. Furthermore, this makes "essentially grandmaster" participants to fill the entire top standings table over and over again even without making an alt, if they decided to enjoy that instead of pursuing high ratings. So far, at least they had to deliberately ruin a few rounds to do that again, but now it's entirely free to spam this behavior every round, and even the "do not have a point of $$$x$$$ or higher in the rating" rule for trusted participants does not work. You also said:
but it is already too dangerous if you have to urge people not to use a specific feature without reasons. The system has to trust users minimally to prevent abuses as much as possible. I don't see why they shouldn't be treated just same as unrated unofficial participants, which solves all these issues.
I wonder if you have a plan to add "rated registration = rated even if they don't submit at all" rule in the future. If so, then mid-participation should force non-rated instead of rated to prevent abuses. If not, I don't see the point in forcing this at all.
Also, as stated in this blog, it further ruins rating prediction, which is already inaccurate due to the inability to get true rating through API. Is this API decided never to be supported now?
Will unrated participants be able to hack rated participants? If so, I can imagine some people registering for a round only for hacking.
Codeforces not shutting down?
This is a good feature in my opinion. It is more like virtual contest but in real scenario.
this might reduce the use of alt acc
Finally!
I've been waiting this feature for over 2 years.LOL.
this is great news for pst time zoners.
Great! This may reduce having multiple accounts on cf
Great feature!Waited for long
This will also reduce alt accounts in contests. This is a good initiative
Yooo !!
codeforces finally have unrated registration!
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If the same accepted solution is submitted from both accounts, then it might be plagiarized. Besides that, people are still doing it, because they don't worry about the rating of alt accounts.
Things you should know before you discuss cheating refer to the "Vocabulary" part
@ShahidulMiraj vai serah!! vai er jonno sob contest rated
in C2 why doesn't this hashing solution work? Link
I saw that if the string is overlapping then what we already have from the second string(length of it) will be present right before that. I personally don't know why the string I ouptutted on test case 86 is wrong.
enjoyed the problems
is there a rough estimate of when this feature will be integrated into official contests?
When registering for the educational round, why do I have a choice between rated or unrated participation? I think the round is rated only for participants with a rating of less than 2100.
What happens if I choose rated participation?
WOW testing 20 came.. ig new feature is coming