Saturday, August 23, 2025

A byte week

There was no contest that I wanted to mention last week. Since I am getting such empty weeks quite often now, I've decided to check unfiltered clist in case I have missed something. And indeed, there seems to be an onsite round of a competition called Wincent DragonByte coming up in September which I only discovered today, and therefore missed my chance to qualify for the onsite finals in Bratislava :) It is a pity but in the grand scheme of things there are of course so many contests I already took part in and hopefully even more that I will take part in.

Nevertheless, this raises a logical question: what would be a good strategy to avoid missing such nice competitions? Reading all Codeforces posts does not seem to work, and neither does checking clist regularly enough. Is there a way to get notified when new contest websites are added to clist maybe (for example, maybe one can achieve that by excluding less relevant resources via "hide" rules in the filters, as opposed to choosing the relevant resources as "show", which I am doing now)? Or should I create an AI bot that checks unfiltered clist or unfiltered Codeforces and decides if I should be notified? What is your strategy? And of course, what other cool contests am I already missing? :)

Thanks for reading, and check back for this week's summary!

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