It’s that time of year again — the Hacker Cup team is excited to announce the schedule for our 2021 season, kicking off on August 27th!
- Qualification Round: Fri. Aug. 27th, 10am PDT — Mon. Aug. 30th, 10am PDT (72 hours)
- Round 1: Sat. Sept. 11th, 10am PDT — Sun. Sept. 12th, 10am PDT (24 hours)
- Round 2: Sat. Sept. 25th, 10am — 1pm PDT (3 hours)
- Round 3: Sat. Oct. 9th, 10am — 1pm PDT (3 hours)
To compete, you can register here at any time between now and the end of the qualification round on Aug. 30th.
As in 2020, we will host this year's Final Round virtually rather than in-person at a Facebook office, given the current global situation. The finals will take place towards the end of 2021, and details regarding the schedule and live stream will be announced later on.
Stay tuned for more announcements as we get closer to the start of the season in August. Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you on the Qualification Round’s scoreboard!
The Facebook post announcing the schedule can be found here.
registration done! . first time participation in Facebook hacker cup.
Congrats tourist!
Where is last year's T-shirt ???
My first email on the topic since last year edition is an email received today asking me to register the 2021 edition...
Please reach out to [email protected] with your details if you have inquiries about a t-shirt — thanks!
I created a Facebook account about a month ago to register for Hacker Cup. But Facebook has disabled it twice. When it disabled it the first time, it asked me to verify my phone number which I did. Now it is again disabled and Facebook asked for a photo which I have sent but I haven't received a reply. Now I am scared if my account remains disabled, I won't be able to participate. Someone, please suggest what I should do. LoneFox please tell me something.
Apologies for the inconvenience, we'll ensure your account is re-enabled before the Qualification Round! Please feel free to send me a message with your account name.
Thanks, I have sent you my details in a message.
Thanks a lot LoneFox. My account is enabled again.
I'm getting error while signing up.
Thanks for pointing that out, and apologies for the issue — it's being looked into. In the meantime, I believe you should find that your registration had gone through and is reflected properly once you reload the page — please let me know if that's not the case.
Refresh the page and this error will automatically resolve.
I can't submit problems for practice, it says an error has occurred at FB's end.
Thanks for flagging! I believe we've found the issue and it should be resolved within a few hours.
I will be worried about round-2 (If I get that far) because round-2 is only 3 hours and early submission matters a lot.I am not very much used to this submission system of FHC.Can anyone share how did you guys get habituated with it when you first faced this type of submission system?
IMO the more important thing than submission time is being able to prove your algorithms works, and that nothing will go wrong when you run your code on a larger dataset.
For me, I usually set up this kind of template.
Then just quickly download the file, run and upload (I don't use the zip file). Takes barely 20 seconds.
Then again, you only get one shot at this, so it's always important to know what you're doing (edge cases, stack size, etc.) before hitting that download button.
LoneFox I got mail and it says this — "Round 1 will begin on Saturday, September 11th at 10am PST and will last for 3 hours." but on website it says it will last for 24 hrs. Which one is wrong?
Edit- Corrected. It's 24 hrs.
Usually what rating are people that get t-shirts? Like what rating are they usually on Codeforces?
Sometimes not knowing the truth is very useful because then you will at least try to do the Impossible... and who knows, in this try you may create history.
I got an email about Facebook Hacker Cup:
Hi,
Thank you for participating in the Qualification Round. You've advanced to Round 1!
You can view full results from the Qualification Round, read solutions to the problems, and make practice submissions to them here.
Round 1 will begin on Saturday, September 11th at 10am PST and will last for 24 hours. The contest can be found here.
Good luck! The Hacker Cup Team
Time has been corrected.
I received an email today, regarding ordering a t-shirt. The email contains a link to collect details, which doesn't have the same domain as Facebook. I also got a warning that "the message seems dangerous", here is the link to screenshot. The sender is "[email protected]".
Can anyone please tell if this is an email from Facebook or a phishing email?
Thanks
Same as last year
https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/82017?#comment-719737
Thanks, DragonCoderZ
Hi, yes it's legit. I know it looks sketchy.
It would be great if you could include the size chart of the T-shirt.
The last WF in the US, I got a North American XL which looks like a skirt :(
I (5' 10", ~135 pounds) got an adult small and it fits about the same size as other small shirts. I wouldn't use ICPC WF shirt sizes as a metric. They are notorious for giving you shirts that are way too big. This shirts are actually the normal "Adult [whatever]" size that I expected anyway.