Hi Codeforces!
As announced earlier, we’re holding an individual competition, the Codeforces Blitz Cup 2025, to celebrate 15 years of Codeforces. The tournament features PvP matches in a novel Blitz format, where every second (literally!) counts. In a 40-minute match, the opponents rush to solve each consecutive problem quicker than the rival. One needs to come up with a correct solution, think over the optimal implementation, and code cleanly: only the first one to get a problem correctly claims the points.
We’ve selected 64 strong participants who compete against each other in a single-elimination bracket. The first round has just concluded, and we’ve already seen both head-to-head battles and incredible comebacks. You can see some of the exciting screencasts of Round 1 in the streams section. Complete results (also shown below).
Starting today until Friday, Round 2 matches are held. Here’s the lineup:
- TheScrasse 3 : 30 conqueror_of_tourist Mar/06/2025 02:10 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- Andreasyan 0 : 45 Geothermal Mar/06/2025 15:45 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- StelIawinD 0 : 23 Golovanov399: Mar/06/2025 17:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- lexiyvv 3 : 20 errorgorn: Mar/06/2025 18:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- jonathanirvings 15 : 8 Egor: Mar/06/2025 18:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- budalnik 16 : 17 alireza_kaviani: Mar/06/2025 20:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- golomb 6 : 39 tourist Mar/06/2025 21:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- SendThemToHell 0 : 23 ksun48: Mar/06/2025 23:10 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- heuristica 33 : 0 Nikitosh: Mar/07/2025 00:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- 353cerega 4 : 29 Kuroni: Mar/07/2025 09:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- induk_v_tsiane 17 : 16 ecnerwala Mar/07/2025 10:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- b6e0 20 : 3 244mhq Mar/07/2025 10:30 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- isaf27 27 : 6 EnEm: Mar/07/2025 13:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- paulzrm 0 : 33 turmax: Mar/07/2025 18:45 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- izban 23 : 10 Kapt: Mar/07/2025 21:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
- peltorator 0 : 33 antontrygubO_o Mar/07/2025 21:00 (Moscow time) Scoreboard
We will stream featured matches of Round 2, and we encourage the participants to stream on their own. We’ll update the lineup above with the start time of the matches, so you can come and cheer!
On the weekend, March 8th and 9th, we’ll stream top 15 matches of the Blitz Cup. The streams will feature both opponents coding side by side, as well as commentary and discussion. Find the schedule of the final matches here and stay tuned in the streams section!
Wow, can't wait to see when tourist and conqueror_of_tourist meet one another in a Blitz round.
It's just fun to see those names. We can easily predict the result of the match if that round were to happen. The gap is just too hard not to see.
guess what
The type of game is very interesting. I like it very much.
I would say lockout was more interesting , in this one you are just trying to get AC as fast as possible. But they did a lockout tournament in the past so ig it is ok.
I'd like to see jiangly vs tourist in a Blitz round.That will be a wonderful game!
sorry, there's no jiangly in this cup :-(
Is this a typo for 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 points? I only see 1, 2, 4, ... points on the score tables.
The "score distribution" was changed for round 2 and further. Initial scores were 1,2,4...
Oh, I get it now.
Will the blitz game be released publicly to codeforces users at any time?
I don't think that's possible since the old problems are used. And with the huge amount of low-rated users, there's no way to ensure the fairness (ie: make sure they don't violate the rule).
Justice for oursaco
Justice for golomb
oursaco is on his revenge arc once again
Please make this blitz format a common thing. Would love it if Codeforces became like Lichess
In the competition, either my brain is too fast for my hands, or my hands are too fast for my brain—either way, they refuse to sync up!
Will this concept be available for common use soon or later? or is it already available? I really would like to choose some problems and compete against my friends. If I can already do that can someone explain how to do it.
faker vs Bin
Can`t wait
Where is dominator69
can we know the problem after the contest end?
why no stream for the errorgorn vs lexiyvv match :(
We want Tourist vs conqueror_of_tourist :)
Really want to see that if conqueror_of_tourist can conquer tourist!
Wow, tourist lost a round to golomb due to int overflow, I guess it happens even to the best of us
I'm thinking about the cool feature of this individual competition.
Can it somehow be made as a seperate function in Codeforces where we can compete with random users or chosen ones (Ex: friends, teachers,...)
But I cannot figure out how to ensure the fairness of each contestant (especially with random users)
That sounds great
You don't really need to ensure fairness because you won't really do Blitz with random people
Should there be a lower bracket? It means the 2nd chance for the under-performed times or some unlucky seeding (esp for whom got seed to 1v1 the literally champion).
Will we have a blitz cup this year as well ??
Hey KAN, Is there a way to make CF Blitz style contest in mashup/GYM ?