I am so glad there is no leaderboard this year. Making it a competition really is against the spirit of advent calendars in general. It’s also not a fair competition by default simply due to the issue of time zones and people’s life schedules not revolving around it.

There are plenty of programming competitions and hackathons out there. Let this one simply be a celebration of learning and the enjoyment of problem solving.

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amitav1 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I agree with the first point but the second point feels irrelevant. Yeah, people's life schedules don't revolve around it, but that doesn't mean shouldn't make iy a competition. Most people who play on chess.com don't have lives that revolve around it, but that doesn't mean that chess.com should abolish Elo rankings.

	▲	poulpy123 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		afai your elo score don't depend of your timezone
	▲	acedTrex 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The global leaderboard encouraged bad behavior against the entire project. Including criminal things like attempting to ddos the site.

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zwnow 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yea fully agree. The leaderboards always made me feel bad.