If you are an Indian doing CP, it's nearly impossible that you haven't heard of TLE Eliminators. You either know it for their PCDs or for selling free stuff for extremely high prices (such as their courses which just contain basic theory. But their main advert is selling them for "curated problems" which are just a bunch of cf problems made by someone else and the problems being stolen from THIS FREE SHEET and sold at high prices for being "curated".) But if you are someone in touch with the CP Sphere, you would know them for their frequent association with cheaters be it Psychotic_D or chief_27 (reference). The reference I shared had a much direct attack tone exposing TLE Eliminators before but I don't know if they were bribed or threatened to change it and hidden the name.

The main aim of this blog is going to be exposing more Teachers (aka Cheaters) associated with this organisation. We will just be talking about the teachers/mentors because talking of the students will need a book instead of the blog because this is the organisation is the mother of cheating culture in Indian Competitive Programming so students would be countless.

But let's start with an ex student or rather a super successful ex-student who went from newbie to CM in 11 months. He has been a part of TLE since the third batch, the time when I joined it. Back then it was a very small organisation with minimal students so the founder aka Priyansh Aggrawal wanted phenomenal results to advertise his money making model and in order to do so, he openly used to teach tricks to avoid plag in his discord server and one such guy who really mastered that art was Queue.

Now you might say his profile looks quite clean. Well that's because he really mastered the art to change the plagarised codes (and also because he used to get his codes directly from Priyansh back then which weren't public like the ones from telegram). He also uses multiple alts. In his prime days he used notQueue to first submit a problem from it and then change it a little to submit from his main profile to avoid penalties. Now he uses alts to get them to a specialist or expert rating and then sell it to innocent students who think showing a high rated cf profile in their resume will get them a job. Another example of it include LazerRazor — Evidence: Check his PCD Video at 55:23 where profile name is visible. I suppose he isn't new to the platform to not know creating alts is cheating. How hypocritical that in this comment their founder is calling out another of his exposed cheater student-mentor duo for having alt accounts but doesn't have an issue with is own educators making and selling one every other day.

Next person we are going to talk about is another TLE mentor, Candidate Master synthborne. What more can I say about someone whose whole CP career began with cheating? THIS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF..

Next to the list is _CrazyForCode_. There is a lot I need to say about him. His contributions in the cheating industry deserves a seperate blog of its own. But I don't want to extend this blog too long since we also need to expose more cheater mentors so let's just discuss the contests where he cheated and got skipped. Will be making a seperate blog for contests where he escaped getting skipped (which is 80% of the contests he gave so far) with proofs. 1. Codeforces Round 863 (Div. 3) — Proof 2. Educational Codeforces Round 147 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof

Next cheater mentor is sachin_gupta21. Skipped contests- 1. Educational Codeforces Round 157 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof

Next we have adiydvv. Contests skipped- 1. Codeforces Round 849 (Div. 4) — Proof 2. Codeforces Round 937 (Div. 4) — Proof

Next is jsi. Skipped contests- 1. Codeforces Round 860 (Div. 2) — Proof 2. Harbour.Space Scholarship Contest 2023-2024 (Div. 1 + Div. 2) — Proof 3. Codeforces Round 994 (Div. 2) — Proof. Special mention — act of very recent cheating after the start of their current batch. This is so recent that rating change hasn't been updated yet. 4. Codeforces Round 973 (Div. 2) — Proof (PS — He got hired even after knowing his account is on the verge of getting banned the next time he is caught cheating). Also deserves a seperate blog. But atleast he is honest in changing his color by magic because that he would be if he stops cheating.

Next we have sanmai_reddy123. Skips- 1. Educational Codeforces Round 136 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof

Next on the list is Betelgeuse. Skips- 1. Codeforces Round 827 (Div. 4) — Proof

Next we have akkafakka. Also deserves a special seperate blog. Notice that he has 1 or 0 problems solved in most of div 3s and div 4s he gave after becoming an expert (which is his true level because an expert or for that matter even a pupil can't fluke so often that he can't solve a single problem in a div 3 or 4). Skips - Educational Codeforces Round 166 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof

Next in our list is Koushik. Another seperate blog deserver because even he has 0 to 1 solves in div 3s and div 4s he gave after becoming an expert (I wonder how they do doubt support lol). Skips- EPIC Institute of Technology Round Summer 2024 (Div. 1 + Div. 2) — Proof

Next we got bhavyatyagi (also many 1-2 solves in div 3s and 4s after becoming expert). Skips- Codeforces Round 884 (Div. 1 + Div. 2) — Proof

Next Abhi6645 (also has 1 solve in a recent div 3 after being Expert). Skips- Educational Codeforces Round 161 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof

Next is chiranjivikeshav (1700+ coder who couldn't solve even problem A of a Div 3 in codeforces round 974. Also a dumb serial cheater not good at changing code who can be banned anytime now). Skips- 1. Codeforces Round 881 (Div. 3) — Proof 2. Codeforces Round 895 (Div. 3) — Proof 3. Educational Codeforces Round 155 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof 4. Codeforces Round 906 (Div. 2) — Proof 5. Codeforces Round 980 (Div. 2) — Proof

Next we have khnhcodingkarlo who also teaches in TLE level 1 and 2. Skips- 1. Educational Codeforces Round 129 (Rated for Div. 2) — Proof

Next we got harshit7650. Also he got 0 to 3 solves in Div 3s after becoming expert (3 is too low even for specialists) 1. Codeforces Round 833 (Div. 2) — Proof

Next in the list is Aniket19o7 (He too started getting 0 to 1 solves in Div 3s and Div 4s after becoming expert). Skips- 1. Codeforces Round 863 (Div. 3) — Proof 2. Codeforces Round 866 (Div. 2) — Proof 3. Codeforces Round 911 (Div. 2) — Proof

Next we got Punpun018. Skips- Codeforces Round 883 (Div. 3) — Proof

If we exclude Queue (though his case atleast was having too many alts), all the people I mentioned were the ones too obvious proven record of cheating that could be found with practically 0 research. There are countless more cases of people who escaped the skip process by changing their codes and this can be found by looking at the problems that solved in contests unrated for them like Div 3 and 4 if they are Expert. A more deeper research by comparing leaked codes with submissions of these mentors will lead to even more such cases coming out of people who are pro at cheating and also cheat in contests unrated for them (I don't know why). The information and codeforces profiles have been taken from the official website of TLE Eliminators and at the moment of writing this blog, it is accessible for public view.

Excluding Queue, the "too obvious" cheaters count is 16. Total number of people working for TLE Eliminators as educators/mentors/pcd heads is 42. So, 38% of the people working in TLE are too obvious cheaters with a proven record of cheating where you don't even need to collect proofs. This number will easily double up if we start collecting proofs such as their performance in unrated rounds or the number of times their submission idea for a problem matched a leaked code.

Priyansh31dec often posts on linkedin that getting high ratings in contests by cheating won't get you a job. Ironically, he is the one employing most of the people who cheated their way to expert or candidate master. The official site of TLE Eliminators says they have an awesome doubt support with most of the mentors Candidate Master or Experts. What it doesn't tell you is most of those "mentors" people cheated their way up to those ranks and can't even solve problem A of Div 3 on their own.

To the general audience — what do you think would happen to some beginner into cp who gets mentored by a cheater? Will he end up being honest or a cheater like them? That's TLE Eliminators for you in one blog. More detailed blogs will be released where I expose the mentors who didn't get skipped but have extremely poor performances in contests unrated for them (an expert not being able to solve Problem C of a Div 3 multiple times is a clear case of fakeness) or of people whose solutions in a contest got similar to the leaked solution too many times. I like data science so I will be exposing every cheater tle mentor not exposed in this blog with proper data and its results. If this blog gets deleted I will post it again. Priyansh is a very powerful guy who even forced the previous blog written here against is cheater mentor student duo to change the name of the organisation so he will definitely try it here too.

Let's expose this cheater making factory for good so that other innocent students aren't trapped by it. He might ask for fake comments in his support or to downvote this blog so if you genuinely were a student in some of his batches before and experienced some of these things, do write about your experiences and upvote this blog so that it doesn't get hidden.