General
Select a contest and in the menu on the left, open Settings → General.
Name
Displayed in the contest title. You can specify the name in the contest language or English for international contests.
Access to contest
Registration
Participant registration method:
- Open registration: Participants can register using their Yandex accounts.
- Closed registration: The administrator registers participants, specifying their Yandex usernames or internal system usernames.
- Training after the contest: Registration is closed during the contest and opens after the contest ends.
In this case, any participant can register and solve problems independently, but their results are not counted in the final results table. That is, participants can send submissions and receive verdicts, but their results are not included in the final results table.
Team participation
Determines whether participating and getting points for solving problems as a team is permitted. Users can form teams themselves.
Contest times
Participants' start time
The time when participants can start solving contest problems. The time zone is determined using the user's settings.
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Fixed time: All participants must start and finish solving contest problems at the same time.
Select a date in the calendar and set the contest start time. Participants see a countdown timer. When it reaches Participant start time + Time to complete problems, the contest ends for the participants who have already started and becomes unavailable for those who haven't.
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Interval: Participants can start completing contest problems at different times, for example, if users are participating from different time zones or participants are given homework.
Select a date in the calendar and set the time when participants can start solving problems.
Select the Until a set time option to set a specific date and time for the contest to end, or Unlimited if it's not important.
Regardless of when participants start solving contest problems (at the beginning or end of the start interval), they have the time indicated in the Time to complete problems field.
Time to complete problems
Select the Until a set time option to set a specific number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds permitted to solve problems, or Unlimited if it's not important.
The time begins as soon as the contest starts if you selected a fixed start time, or the moment the participant starts solving problems if you selected an interval start time.
Individual start
Determines whether participants can start solving problems on their own. The individual start time is set in the Access and participants section. If this option is enabled, participants who do not have a start time specified see the Start virtual contest button.
Participation outside the contest
Upsolving
Determines whether participants can finish solving contest problems outside the contest:
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Allowed: Participants can submit solutions after the contest ends, but they are not counted in the general statistics.
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Allowed automatically after completion: Participants cannot submit solutions after the time allocated to solve problems expires. Participants can submit solutions after the contest start time, but they aren't counted in the overall statistics.
This setting works best for contests with an interval start.
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Not allowed: Participants cannot submit solutions after the contest ends.