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Round numbering system
By peltorator, 15 months ago, In English

The last two Div. 1 + Div. 2 rounds were not numbered:

In total, in 2023 there were already 7 such "unnumbered" rounds out of 21 rated for Div. 1. Honestly, it completely messes up the folder names on my computer. And I don't really understand why it should be so. There are numbered rounds. There is a separate numbering system for educational rounds. This is ok — two different numbering systems is no problem (like ABC, ARC, and AGC on AtCoder). Then we have Global Rounds. Then we have things like Hello, Good Bye, and April 1st rounds. Already quite a lot of instances but it is still ok, these are understandable regular things. But nowadays we have all these company-sponsored rounds that previously were just normally named rounds (and maybe had the company name added but they still were numbered as normal rounds). Why are they now also separate instances every time? Sometimes I can't even easily understand whether a round is rated or not by just looking at its name. For example, "Harbour.Space Scholarship Contest 2023-2024" does not look rated to me. And if Pinely Round 2 at least makes sense (even though I don't like the fact that we have so many small separate instances), this round name does not make sense to me at all. What is going to happen next year if there is going to be a similar contest? "Harbour.Space Scholarship Contest 2024-2025"? It becomes too messy! Why not just "Harbour.Space Scholarship Codeforces Round 895" or something like that?

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virgin round number system vs chad contest id system

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    Every round that is div. 1 and separately div. 2 sadly has two different contest ids :(

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      but you don't participate in div2s lol so no need any folders for those

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      15 months ago, # ^ |
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      My practice is to use the Div. 2 ID only for problems that are exclusive to Div. 2 (and to use Div. 1 for all other problems).

      I’m not opposed to including round numbers for the sponsored rounds you describe, but I don’t find using IDs any harder.

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Well, I faced the same problem too and moved to naming folders using contest ids right after these contests.

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Related: https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/110232

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