Final standing is accessible from our official page. Congratulations to our winners:

1. peter50216
2. cerealguy
3. Egor

We hope all the participants have enjoyed the contest.

A short clip of overview of the contest is available here.

Our special thanks goes to MikeMirzayanov for perfectly hosting our elimination round on Codeforces. We'd also like to thank ivanromanov for his great coverage of the event.

We'll do our best to put the problem-set in the gym as soon as possible.

Since the final round has finished, we'll start shipping the T-shirts of elimination round winners in 10 days.

Have fun

So you were in the top 100 of Bayan 2012/13 elimination round? Congratulations! We're just about to start shipping the T-shirts. Unfortunately, some of the users had not provided the required information in their profile. If you are one of them, please send your detailed contact information and T-shirt size to contest (at) bayan (dot) co (dot) ir in the next 48 hours.

Have a nice time!

Elimination round is over!

Thank you all for participating in the elimination round of Bayan Contest. The final results are available. We had more than three thousand registered users for the contest on Codeforces and one third of them were able to solve at least one problem. In the meantime 1100 Iranian contestants participated in our local contest and half of them solved a problem.

We tried hard to prepare a challenging-yet-fun problemset.
The problem "241G - Challenging Balloons" was inspired from a real story! The problem described in the story was used in CEOI 2011 (Task Balloons), and the provided algorithm was the author's solution during that contest — which got the full mark indeed.
According to statistics, "241D - Numbers" was the hardest problem. A tricky approach to the solution is to ignore large inputs and solve the problem for small values of n. You may observe that it is possible to find the demanded subset within a small part of input. During the contest, no one solved all the problems but there was at least one successful attempt for each of them.
We hope you enjoyed it all!

As stated before, Top 100 contestants will be receiving T-shirts. So, update your contact information and T-Shirt size in your Codeforces profile. We'll start sending the prizes as soon as possible.

And the winners...

The winners will receive invitation letters — to the on-site event — soon. If you are one of them make sure your contact information is up-to-date.

Congratulations to all the participants, specially the winners. See you in Tehran!

Good Luck

Hi everybody!

Time for Bayan Programming Contest 2012/13 — Elimination Round.

The problemset has been prepared by Bayan employees. We've tried our best to make it interesting, competitive and a little-bit different! We'd like to thank Mike Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) and Gerald Agapov (Gerald) who helped us during problemset arrangement process.

The contest is individual and will be held with ACM-ICPC rules. It will be having English statements only. Also, it will be rated for Div-1 contestants, but we expect Div-2 participants to enjoy it as well.

This round will be a 3hr round with 7 problems to solve. Just like most of ACM-ICPC contests, problems are not supposed to be sorted in order of difficulty. Also, the registration will be open until the end of contest, so be sure to double-check the timing.

Top 20 participants will be invited to the onsite event — Tehran, and Top 100 will be receiving T-Shirts. More details about the prizes is explained in our previous blog post.

Just to emphasize some rules, avoid participating with more than one usernames. Also, you should not collaborate or contact anyone about the problems.

Good Luck!

UPD: The contest is over. Congratulations to all the winners, specially:
1. tourist
2. cerealguy
3. rng_58
4. peter50216
5. Egor
6. PavelKunyavskiy

Because of unusual calculation of rating for this contest. The rating will be updated with delay.

Overview

Bayan is a software development company working on large-scale web applications. Currently working on a Search Engine, we face serious algorithmic challenges every now and then, and we try to provide solutions using state-of-art techniques, including Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, etc. Salam, being one of its subprojects, is a Meta Search Engine focusing on retrieving relevant results for Persian queries.

We also hold an annual programming event in which talented programmers compete. Problems of the contest are prepared by Bayan employees who have experience of IOI and ACM/ICPC. The previous contest had a wide range of audiences. About 2000 contestants participated in the last year's opening contest.

This year, we have planned to invite participants from other countries as well. The elimination round will be held on Codeforces with ACM/ICPC rules. Top participants are invited to attend the on-site event in Tehran.

Eligibility

• No age restriction is proposed for the elimination round. However, only participants older than 16 are eligible to take part in the onsite event.
• No Bayan employee nor their families may take part in the contest.
• Iranian contestants will advance to the final event in a different process, and thus they are NOT allowed to participate in the Codeforces round.

Elimination Round

• will be held November 1st,
• is an individual event,
• takes 3 hours, with ACM/ICPC rules,
• cheaters are banned forever!
• Top 20 participants will be invited to on-site contest in Tehran, All accommodation expenses are covered by Bayan. Flight expenses for top 10 participants are paid as well.
• Top 100 contestants will receive the contest's T-shirt.

Elimination Round results

• Results will be posted here.

Onsite Contest

• Overall workflow of advancing to the onsite event is illustrated below:
• We will be having lots of interesting side-activies. Detailed schedule will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

Prizes

1. 1st prize: Gold Medal + 3 Gold Coins (24 gr total) + $1000 Iranian Handicrafts
2. 2nd prize: Silver Medal + 2 Gold Coins (16 gr total) + $1000 Iranian Handicrafts
3. 3rd prize: Bronze Medal + Gold Coin (8 gr) + $1000 Iranian Handicrafts