Then it depends on what the purpose of the competition is. I had a similar issue when it was found that a UK singing competition was using pitch correction on all participants, and many people were unhappy about this. I pointed out that it's probably a job audition more than a pure "who can sing the best at a particular moment" competition, and in the real world of doing stage productions, they're going to be pitch corrected. It's just not possible to be 100% on your game every day, sometimes multiple times a day, and for a production they value consistency over purity. This may be much the same, where they don't actually care about "best coder" in isolation but rather "best code producer" which means using all the tools they'll have in the real world. If you polled all the people running the contest, I don't think you'd find agreement which of the two goals is paramount, and only one can be. I don't think they should even run the contest until they're able to clarify this (and let the people on the other side disconnect).