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Who determines the contest start time?
By number1729, history, 5 hours ago, In English

Who determines the contest start time ? The writer(s) or Mike Mirzayanov?

if you take a look at upcoming contests, You will notice that 3 unusual start times are there.

this unusual start time happened in some of recent contests too. I am familiar with 14:35 UTC start time ( I think 54 out of 56 contests I participated, started at that time, and that 2 contests started at 10:35 UTC I think, which both were on Friday ).

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Probably the contest setters, since they are the ones who have to be online during the contest to answer clarifications and also to fix anything, if anything goes wrong.

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that's normal, i think it'll be fixed soon when the announcement posted

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It's determined by setters and might be based on on-site rounds.

Why not be an intended move so that number of participants isn't too high? Causing server errors and potential unrated rounds. update: Based on COMPFEST finals

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