We hope you participated and enjoyed the changes made to monthly Long Contests.

From now on, we will be having the problem statements available in Mandarin Chinese and Russian as well

As always, the long contests will start on first Friday of every month and last for 10 days. This ensures that two weekends are covered.

Continuing from there, we bring you the CodeChef February 2014 Long Challenge. The February 2014 Algorithm Challenge is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/FEB14.

Here are the details:
Date: 6th February 2014 to 16th February 2014
Duration: 10 days
Problems: 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels + 1 challenge problem.

Problem Setters:

• Lalit Kundu (darkshadows?),
• Ivan Zdomsky (ballon),
• Sergey Nagin (sereja),
• Dmytro Berezin (berezin),
• Minako Kojima (xiaodao),
• Shiplu Hawlader (msh_shiplu)
• Roman Furko Furko),
• Vitaliy Herasymiv (witua) and
• Surya Kiran (adurysk?)

Problem Testers:

• Hiroto Sekido(laycurse)
• Gerald (Gerald)

Editorialist:

• Ajay Kumar Verma (djdolls)

Mandarin Translator:

• Kojima Minako (xiaodao)

Russian Translator:

• Gerald (Gerald)

It promises to deliver on an interesting set of algorithmic problems with prizes up for grabs.

The contest is open for all and those, who are interested, are requested to register in order to participate.

Check out the local time in your City/Time Zone here. Do share your feedback on what you feel about the new long contest format at [email protected]

Good Luck! Hope to see you participating.