The CROC company and the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation invite the schoolchildren of the 9-11th years of education in Moscow and the Moscow region to take part in a school programming championship. The championship is called Coder-Strike 2014. The championship will be held based on Codeforces.

Goals

We aim to support talented high school children, help to form the community of programming enthusiasts, develop future IT professionals. The modern industry offers scientific challenges that cannot be solved without profound knowledge in the field of algorithms and data structures. We want to provide out participants with potential ways of development of with the opportunities that open in front of high qualified professionals.

Participants

You can participate if you study at 9-11th school year of one of a high school of Moscow or Moscow region. You should also be over 14 years old at the moment of registration to the championship. In order to become a participant of the championship, you need to register before you take part in the qualifying round at http://crocok.ru/championship/. You should submit the participant application form to take part in the championship officially.

Schedule

The qualification round will consist of 2-3 easy programming problems, your solutions will be checked during the round. The rounds 1-2 and the finals will be conducted by the traditional Codeforces rules, you can learn more about them by these links:

• rules
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Championship Finals

The championship finals will take place on April, 22 in the CROC company office on 5, Volochayevskaya street. The finalists will have an excursion along the company office an meet the leading specialists of CROC and the Ministry of Defence of Russian Federation. The time of the finals will be specified later.

The award ceremony will be on May, 20-23 on the exhibition by the Ministry of Defense called 'Complex Safety'.

Prizes

All the participants who make it to the finals get souvenirs from the CROC company and the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation.

Participation Out-of-Competition

All the willing users can participate in the championship out of competition. In this case the application form is not required. The sorting rounds and the finals will be Codeforces rating rounds.

Last Friday, on May 17, CROC finishes the All-Russian Open Programming Championship. The CROC company (together with Codeforces) holds a competition for the best coders of our country for the second year in a row.

Informational technologies are a dynamic habitat where the best minds dwell and sometimes innovative ideas come up at a great speed! This time the organizers stated that the championship is all-Russian but they were surprised to see the championship interest extending beyond the national border.

The interest towards the competition was such that we had many participants from Russia, former Sovyet republics and even far away countries. On this championship, coders solve sports programming problems: to win, they need to come up with effective algorithms, code them quickly, consider all non-typical situations. Besides, there is the additional element of looking for mistakes in other participants' codes and suggest the tests that fail their rivals' codes. The special feature of the contest is the "Code Game Challenge" play round, for which we singled out a special day., — says Sergey Strelkov, the head of the CROC company software development department.

Dmitry Matov from Saratov was humble and skeptical about his chances to win, pointing out the high level of the Championship:

It's the second time I've taken part in the CROC championship. There are few such championships in Russia – you can count the companies that support spots programming like that on the fingers of one hand.

The CROC Championship took part in several stages: it started at the qualification round on April, 13 the internet elimination rounds took place on April, 15 and 22 and finally, the Championship Finals took place in the CROC Moscow office on May, 16 and 17.

The finalists included 3 participants from Belarus, 3 from Ukraine, 3 Polish and one Japanese coder:

The participants of the Finals had pleasant surprises ahead of them. They meet the championship organizers in the CROC innovative office, they went for an excursion to the CROC Data Analysis Centre and took part in an exciting play round:

--- The participants had to implement strategies for hockey teams with a goalkeeper and two players. They had quite little time to write a code that coordinates the players and then compete with other teams. It was interesting and it was fun! — says one of the finalists.

Gennady Korotkievich, a student of St. Petersburg National Information Research Institute of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, won the IT hockey, and the Championship:

It was a challenging competition with challenging problems and challenging participants. That's what makes it interesting for the participants and I guess, for the spectators, too.

Besides, Gennady noted that the CROC Championship for young programmers is a great opportunity to compete with the best young programmers and communicate with people from other cities and even countries. Most of all, this provides the personal growth perspective as well as rising interest to sports programming in Russia.

We remind you that the winner was awarded with 100 000 rubles. Egor Kulikov and Evgeny Kapun, the participants who got the second and third prizes, won 70 000 and 50 000 rubles, correspondingly. The full results are available by this link.

The 2013 Open All-Russia CROC Championship is over. We congratulate the winners but we do not say bye! Look out for the CROC IT news to be among the best. And win!

We are growing and spreading! All-Russian Programming Championship CROC-2013 is followed after the Open Moscow Championship and the Championship for the Bauman MSTU Students.

The CROC company, with the help of Codeforces and Saratov State U, sets up a competition for the top talented programmers of the country. If you are a university student or a young specialist over 18 (and the citizen of Russian Federation), we invite you to participate. The first prize in the Championship is 100000 rubles, the second prize is 70000 rubles and the third prize is 50000 rubles.

Championship Schedule

*the championship can be expanded if the number of participants exceeds expectations, all finalists should to confirm invitation until May 2

• Qualification Round – April, 13-14
• Elimination Round 1 – April, 15 (up to 2000 participants)
• Elimination Round 2 – April, 22 (400 participants)
• The championship finals are going to take place on May, 16-17 in Moscow in the CROC office (50 participants)

The rules will be explained in more detail a little later, but no surprises are planned. We will try to involve the "out of competition participants" (that is, those who can't officially participate in the Championship) as much as possible.

Some pleasant surprise awaits for the participants in the dream office and outside it! The CROC company pays for the accommodation in Moscow during the finals. Also for Russian citizens the travel expenses around Russia will be covered (* The transport expenses outside Russia can be covered possibly partially but you need to contact us and clarify it for each particular case). The official event language is Russian, the problems will be in Russian and English.

Registration

To participate in the championship, you need to register on the championship page, website crocok.ru. The registration will be available until the qualification is completed. Compete with the best coders on an Open Programming Championship!

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