The inevitable despair of a fallen man, a truly demotivating rezil story Hello CodeForces, tonight we mourn the sad demise of a man who once was a legend, truly an icon in the Turkish CP community. That man is [user:AhmetKaan,2025-09-21] Avcı. Let me tell you the sad, disgusting story of how he became who he is and what has yet to happen to him. Our story begins in 2004, just two days ago in September 19th. Born in Kastamonu/Türkiye to a family of 6 children, a family that posseses one IMO participant (Ömer Avcı), and one older brother who once dominated Turkish Olympiad programming. ([user:farukkastamonuda,2025-09-21] orz) This man was obviously blessed with inspiration from an abundance of role models inside his own home. Even though genetics seemed to be to his advantage, he always lacked the skill to even do simple math. He cried his nights yearning to become like his elite brothers. It just didn't come natural to him, ever. His prayers were answered and his older brother Faruk came back home from his highschool outside Konya, and trained him al...

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Invitation to CodeChef March Cook-Off 2021 We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s [March Cook-Off](https://www.codechef.com/COOK127?utm_source=codeforces_blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=MarCook) on 21st March from [9:30 PM — 12:00 AM IST](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=March+Cook-off+2021&iso=20210321T2130&p1=44&ah=2&am=30). There will be **7 problems in Division 3 and 6 problems in Division 2/1**. The March Cook-Off is going to have Gameskraft, Quadeye Securities, Dialpad, and BetterPlace as the official contest recruiters! Gameskraft is hiring for Javascript and Frontend Developers. Quadeye is on the lookout for brilliant Full Stack Developers in CodeChef’s community. Dialpad is looking to attract top talent from CodeChef for the role of Software Engineer. BetterPlace is looking to hire competent coders from the community for SDE 1 and SDE 2 roles. Joining us on the problem setting panel are: - Admins: Ashish [user:ashishgup,2020-12-19] Gupta - Tester: Rahul [user:amne...

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Addressing the AI Allegations Against AhmetKaan (Sorry for the 3rd Blog, Not an Appeal) Hello Codeforces! As you may have noticed, there are popular blogs about [user:AhmetKaan,2026-03-16] and his ban from Codeforces after recent contests. One of them is a sentimental appeal, and one is an admin response to that appeal. Before even starting the blog, let me clarify, challenging the admin decision absolutely isn't this blog's purpose. Codeforces has its own standards as a community, and admins must enforce them. Admins do not and should not have obligation to prepare something like a legal accusation, nor are they obligated to carefully examine the arguments presented in this blog when making their decisions. That's why I purposely left out defense for older claims, which would make this blog more look like a ban appeal -which it is not-, and debating them here only spark off-topic controversy. The sole purpose here is to provide technical context for his recent contest performances. Therefore, admins are not tagged in this blog, and I kindly request you to not ta...

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Tips for EJOI 2019 Hi, I'm Emre from Turkey junior team. As you know, less time left for EJOI 2019, and as Turkey team we're working hard nowadays. You can share your tips with us for help us to improve ourselves. Maybe that will be usefull for you, too. I hope that will be great sharing. I would be grateful if you help. I'm not sure about how good is my English, but I'm sure about it is not perfect :) ###### Other members of Turkey team - Erkam Uysal : [user:erkam,2019-07-01] - Omer Habip Tokuoglu : [user:pr0mers,2019-06-30] - Ahmet Kaan Avci : [user:A.Kaan42,2019-06-17] - Emre Yazicioglu : [user:emre_,2019-07-06]

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