We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 66 AKA CodeDrift 2022, this Wednesday, 23rd November, rated till 5-stars Coders (i.e. for users with rating < 2200). This contest was organized by the students of BITS Hyderabad.

Time: 8 PM — 11:00 PM IST

Joining us on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Varun Crime_and_Punishment Vaddiraju, Sai Zura_ja_nai Panda, mehrzad_minaei mehrzad_minaei, Jeevan JeevanJyot Jyot Singh, Prakhar Prakhar6969 Agarwal, Gaurav somaigaurav Somai

• Testers: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Hriday the_hyp0cr1t3 G

• Statement Verifier: Hriday the_hyp0cr1t3 G

• Video Editorialists: Sundar K Letscode_sundar, Garvit garvitvirmani0 Virmani, Madhav jhamadhav Jha, Suraj jhasuraj01 Jha, Jwala jwalapc, Rohit ezo_tihor Oze, Adhish ak2006 Kancharla

• Text Editorialists: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh

• Contest Admins: Jeevan JeevanJyot Jyot Singh, Tejas tejas10p Pandey

CodeDrift 2022 was organized by students of BITS Hyderabad and is one of the headliner events of our annual technical fest, ATMOS. After nearly 3 years of waiting, ATMOS is finally open to the outside world as well! You can find further details about the fest HERE.

Cash prizes worth INR 50,000 are up for grabs! You may find the distribution below.

Div 1:

Top three global:

1st — INR 15,000

2nd — INR 10,000

3rd — INR 5,000

Top three Indians:

1st — INR 10,000

2nd — INR 6,000

3rd — INR 4,000

Please fill out this form in order to be considered for cash prizes.

EDIT — Winners:

Global:

1st: Takuki Kurokawa (tabr)

2nd: Jay Leeds (geothermal)

3rd: Kosuke Fukuda (kude)

Indian:

1st: Kaustubh Miglani (kira_1234)

2nd: Aryaman Das (watoac2001)

3rd: Shivang Tiwari (jaimahakal)

Congrats to all the winners, and thank you to everyone who participated!

Prizes will be distributed soon.

Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest.

The video editorials of the problems will be available for all users for 1 day as soon as the contest ends, after which they will be available only to Pro users.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!