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Hacker Cup Shirts 2023
By SecondThread, history, 7 months ago, In English

Meta Hacker Cup Shirts

Hacker Cup prizes are back this year, and the shirts are back in black! The top 2000 participants in Round 2 will win a shirt. If you qualify for Round 3 and finish in the top 200, you'll win a shirt with a top-200 badge on the sleeve instead of the normal shirt.

Just like last year, T-Shirts will be able to be claimed in your Hacker Cup Profile after we have finished plagiarism checks for the Round 3. (or after we have finished plagiarism checks for Round 2 if you didn't qualify for Round 3 and have no chance of winning a top-200 shirt)

You must claim your shirt by December 15th. We will not be shipping shirts after the 15th.

Due to regulations, Meta is also not able to support prize shipments to the following countries at this time:

Country List

Shirts shipped to addresses in the United States should be delivered within 1 week of being claimed. Shirts delivered to addresses outside the United States may take up to 3 weeks to be delivered.

Links to track your shipment can be found on your profile page once your shirt is shipped. Please note that you must have to claim your shirt from our vendor's website using the code in your profile. Their website looks like this:

Update: We'll release codes on your profile to all winners at the same time after we finish plagiarism checks for Round 3 on Monday, November 6th.

Update 2: Codes have been created and can be viewed on your profile.

Update 3: (November 22) Our stock for the following sizes is low. If you select one of these sizes, you will still get your shirt, but it won't be shipped until late December: XL, 3XL, Top-200 XL.

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is it cheap-material?

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    It is high quality. I wore last year's T-shirt very often and it is still just like the day first I wore it.

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    We both know that you do not deserve this. I hope the plagiarism test is good and I wont need to create an "exposing scammers" blog for you.

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    (Aliyyiakbar) People should have basic common sense to ask this question.

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    how does it feel? you're probably out of like 50 bucks buying the solution and you get disqualified, literally paid for nothing and got put on the hall of shame

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      And trying very hard to obfuscate the code.

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    is it cheap-solution?

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Really like a T-shirt, but it is so sad the contest time is not friendly to me.

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dmraykhan

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I was hoping for a lighter color but black is cool too!

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Do we have to provide any info related to shipping before the contest? Also I'm from Syria, will I be contacted? (I will provide shipping info for a relative abroad)

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    You don’t need to provide anything before the contest. After rounds 2 or 3 (as described above) you’ll have the prize added to your profile and you can view it there.

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Having the name or username at the back would be great (if possible)

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Good luck to everyone, my first time participating in Meta Hacker Cup though I have heard of it for a long time. A shirt would be very nice!

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sdaf

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Claiming a shirt will work even if there isn't an email linked to my profile, right? The issue here hasn't been fixed yet, and a few years ago I missed out on a Hacker Cup shirt I had won because my FB account was registered to my phone number but the shirt distribution depended on having a linked email.

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    Did it get resolved?

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    You don't need an email linked to your profile this year to claim a shirt. It'll just be available on your Hacker Cup profile.

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Why am i unregistered, I placed 1045 place in first round?

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I just achieved rank of 1836. How can I claim my t-shirt?

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    SecondThread already answered your question in the blog

    "Just like last year, T-Shirts will be able to be claimed in your Hacker Cup Profile after we have finished plagiarism checks for the Round 3 (or after we have finished plagiarism checks for Round 2 if you didn't qualify for Round 3 and have no chance of winning a top-200 shirt)."

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cannot wait

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When are we going to receive the prizes emails ? Thanks.

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Finally I m getting the T shirt!

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SecondThread Where could you find the first picture of the Available Prizes for 2023?

I opened the Profile Link but there was just Public Info, Private Contact Info and My Competition History.

Thanks a lot

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    We're not done with plagiarism detection yet.

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      Can you give any expected date of finishing plagiarism detection ?

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      You doing it manually?

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        respect

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        It's semi-manual. We've built internal tools which help us and flag people, but we still have to go through and looked at all the flagged instances. Also if someone obfuscates their code we have to check for that too.

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          Do you see the original file extensions of the submitted source code on your side? These extensions give a hint about the used programming language, unless they are stripped by the system. How do you generally handle the less popular exotic programming languages? The FAQ only says:

          What programming languages can I use? You can use any language that has a free compiler/interpreter available.

          Do you expect the contestants to supply more detailed information about the used compilers in such cases?

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      Do you guys also check for the wrong source code submissions? Like one of my Meta friends submitted a code that will print nothing, and there's one who submitted the code which will give compilation error, for problem A2 and B(same code for both). I think somehow they got the correct output file (maybe they got the code from somewhere), and to avoid plagiarism they submitted random codes.

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        Yeah, we've definitely DQ'd some people for doing this. There's a chance you would get through if you pass our hueristics, but at the very least you are far from safe.

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          Sir will there be an issue if I dont have an e-mail attached to my profile? ...

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by SecondThread (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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Still can't find any tab of "Available Prizes" as your screenshot on my profile page. I got 1690 rank in round 2 so pretty sure I am eligible for T-shirt. Can anybody help me if I'm missing something?

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    Read the update, it will be available on Monday, november 6.

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Anybody got notified with their t-shirt?

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    No

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    Not yet.

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    It should be available on your profile now if you check again.

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      Thanks. Ordered mine.

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      When claiming my t-shirt, the dropdown list of "Delivery Country" doesn't contain "China", which isn't included in the unsupported country list as stated in the topic of this post. SecondThread, please help ensure China is available to deliver, thanks!

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tshirt

Again, Uzbekistan is not on the list of countries at the third-party vendor site. I believe this is just a mistake, as in your blog, you did not mention Uzbekistan as impossible to ship.

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    Our vendor says they have added it, but please let me know if you still don't see it.

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      Also, Turkey is still not on the list of countries at the vendor's site. I think there is a mistake because Turkey is not mentioned as impossible to ship.

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      They didn't. I still can't see Uzbekistan on countries list.

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Hi, is it possible to have the size chart ? SecondThread

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How are we supposed to contact support SecondThread?

The "Contact us" tab mentions [email protected] and subject heading "Hacker Cup 2021 — Shirt Order Confirmation #XXXXX" which is clearly outdated.

On the other hand, after submitting an order, it mentioned [email protected] and subject heading "Hacker Cup 2023 — Shirt Order Confirmation" but that mail does not seem to work at all?

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    Thanks for letting me know. I've relayed this to our vendor and they said they have updated it.

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Is it free shipping ?

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Hi, The delivery to my country is 75 dollars?!? Who should I contact about this?

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    Thanks for letting me know. Who is asking you to pay the $75? I'm meeting with our vendor tomorrow to learn more, and I'll definitely ask about this. Some countries have import tariffs that need to be paid by the recipient of items, but I believe the shipping is paid for by Meta (this import tariff might not be though).

    You can reach our vendor directly by emailing [email protected].

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      When i put my address info the only option for delivery is express dhk for 75 euros, cant continue without choosing it

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        Can you send me a screenshot (or google drive link) of what this looks like? You can DM me and/or cover up your address info, I just want to see the UI that's telling you to pay money.

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          Same in China. I have 2 options, $25 or $78. The later one is faster delivered.

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When vendor will start shipping?(It's already 6 days since I ordered, but I still don't have tracking link)

SecondThread

Upd: Got message from vendor, that my T-shirt in process and they will send link tomorrow:)

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    SecondThread

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    I ordered a week ago and I got it yesterday. I got the tracking link right I after I ordered it.

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      where did you get the tracking link? In my profile there haven't any tracking code.

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        it should be sent to your email address, though i have not got one

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        The link was sent to my email. According to another email, I think people should get the link once the order ships.
        I'm super surprised to see mine is so fast. Maybe I just did it the right moment, though.

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          My order has been shipped. Today, they called and asked me for the tracking id but I haven't any (:

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The shirt arrived in less than a week (5 days after being shipped to be more precise), which was very fast.

Thanks for the quick delivery, it's much appreciated.

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    For me it arrived the day after I ordered it but shipping might be faster in the US.

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Recieved it. Thanks a lot <3

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Received it today

Thanks to SecondThread and meta team for the competition

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Sadly my rank was 2001 :'(

Missed top 2000 because of 15 seconds and a silly mistake in problem B

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    Sometimes, the luck is not on our side.

    I hope you get ur dream rank the next year❤️

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Hello SecondThread,

As of now, I haven't received my T-shirt. Some of my friends in the same city have already received theirs. Unfortunately, I don't have the tracking code. How can I obtain the tracking code for my order?

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I ordered L-Size T-Shirt but unfortunately it is very loose. I usually wear L size T-shirts only, infact last year's L size Tshirt fits perfectly.

Is it possible to replace this T-Shirt for a Medium size?? (since it was written they can attempt to deliver this twice)

Thanks!!

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    No, the attempt to deliver it twice means the delivery driver will attempt to give you your package twice. You can only win one shirt and can't exchange it after ordering it.

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It's been a month since I claimed my shirt but it still shows "Tracking Code: Not available yet" in my profile page. Please look into it SecondThread

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    Please read update 3 in the post. For certain sizes, we'll ship your shirt shortly after the window to claim them ends, because we'll have to print a second batch.

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      I didn't receive any mail to claim the prize, back in 2021 I got a mail to claim prize, but not this year and when I came to know about the option on profile the deadline had passed, can you please help me to get the shirt.

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        We will not be shipping shirts after the 15th.

        You missed your chance to order the shirt. Unfortunate, but you'll have to get over it. Hopefully you can get a shirt next year :)

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Hello SecondThread, is there any update on "update 3"? December is over and my tracking code is still not available. Thanks!

UPDATE: T-shirt has arrived, YAY! :-)

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Finally got mine, thanks! Although it costed about 35$, but nvm.

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