Coding world is happy to have you @mugurelionut. 
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@admin: I think reducing the submission limit to 200 is a good idea. At least it’s one more step towards less over-fitting of the solutions to the test data.
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@dzlla: I think it’s possible to have similar ideas (particularly if one discusses the problem with others), but not that similar. Moreover, I was also mentioning that they had identical parameters used for tuning their solutions, which they tried hard to hide (by encoding these parameters in different ways in the 2 submissions). I can explain to you why these parameters were very important in obtaining high scores for this problem, but there is not enough space in a single comment. I will try to write a separate answer about this or maybe write about it on the editorial page.
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yea dzlla, you created this account just to comment on this thread? fishy much??
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One thing is for sure, if you want to beat mugurel in Code chef Long, you better beat him fairly, else HE WILL FIND YOU & HE WILL KILL YOU (humor intended).
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Their rating has been increased not dropped.
Why is codechef being so biased with them?
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+1 for @kislaya’s comment. I also don’t understand why this happened. I am hoping that the Codechef team is still considering their cheating case, but they updated the ratings in order to avoid further delays. Maybe they’re waiting on some reply from @msm1993 and @kutengine before deciding on this cheating case… I don’t know.
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