About the new contest format (4 hours + 4 weeks)

#1

I just had some questions about the next contest format:
“The Sprint starts on Wednesday the 25th of July at 12 PM EST for 4 hours. The Marathon starts next Friday (27th of July) at 12 PM EST for 4 weeks. Between the two parts, the game is closed.”

The way I understand it, the contest starts wednesday, then is “closed”, then resumes fridays for 4 weeks. I was mostly wondering what would be the state of the contest while “closed”. I guess we cant submit, but I was wondering if we would have access to:

  • The IDE
  • the rules
  • the referee
  • previously created replays
  • last battles

Also, what about the leagues ? Will we know all the rules once the contest is closed ? It’s kind of annoying to think about your algo and have 1 rule destroy all your assumptions, would be nice to know all the rules.

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#2

Some additional questions. How is the leaderboard handled? Are there 2 leaderboards, one for sprint and one for marathon? Is there a leaderboard for overall (spring + marathon)? Similar questions for codinpoints.

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#3
  • no access to the IDE
  • no rules changes between sprint & marathon
  • statement is accessible in your contest report (if you submitted an AI)
  • replays are accessible I guess. Last battles too
  • two leaderboards, codinpoints for both
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#4

Will there be wood leagues with incremental changes to the rules during the sprint?
If so, could we have access to the Referee in the first wood league?
Thank you

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#5

Now we have some parallel discussion to the discord going on.

Illedan - Today at 2:36 PM
They could also make a contribution game with bronze rules, to have a simple arena…
[CG]Thibaud - Today at 2:38 PM
that’s possible

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#6

Hum maybe I’m lacking the context, I don’t get what Illedan means by that.

#7

He means create a separate custom multi game with bronze rules until marathon opens

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#8

As we already discussed on the discord, the issue with a 4 hours sprint with wood league is that wood boss can take 2 hours to finish their own ranking … I really hope that CodinGame will adress this issue before tomorrow or else the 4 hours sprint will be 2 hours of staying idle in front of our code waiting for the next league.

Skip the wood leagues maybe ? :smiley:

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#9
  • kutulu gold release also happens on this day, which might further delay ranking system
#10
  • Wood leagues rules announced briefly at the end of the statement in the “What is in store in the higher leagues?” section
  • referee and advanced details are only available from the Bronze league
  • we’re fixing a bug that made the boss do too many matches
  • Code of Kutulu gold league will be released at another time
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#11

Well, you called it…

#12

2h was far away of the reality :smiley: 2h50 for submit idle time.

#13

More questions: does the sprint contest unlock achievements like “Hundreds are behind me” or “first in a language” ?

It was the first time I was in top 100 :stuck_out_tongue:

#14

The Sprint should unlock achievements

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