Hello all! I have another contest to share with you all.
Abakoda was an initiative by NOI.PH (the Philippines' olympiad) to run a series of beginner-friendly weekly contests, which ultimately culminated in a long contest. Contestants were given a little under 10 days to solve 13 problems. We have decided to share these problems with the general Codeforces community.
I feel very strongly that good beginner contests are required in order to lower the barrier to competitive programming. And I'm quite proud of the set that I ended up writing! The problems should be approachable for beginners... but that said, I think there are a handful of problems that more experienced contestants might find interesting anyway :)
The contest link is here: https://codeforces.net/gym/104146
Enjoy!
Thanks to verngutz for helping me set one of the problems, and thanks to ongyiumark and lyreloi and cerebi for helping me with testing! Art, as usual, is by my amazing friend Saji Tan.
How do I register for the contest?
Go to this page, as of writing it should be one of the first contests. Click the red box that says Register.
So true bestie! The problems are cool and accessible, recommend joining.
This year is 2023
This contest ran from Dec 25 to Jan 2 (I think). I decided to wait a bit until after it was over before I would release it to the public :))
External storage error The external storage was offline or malfunctioned during the last contest update. Please wait for some time, then go to the contest edit page and click "Save changes" to synchronize data
I have this sign while doing the contest. Could anyone please help me deal with it? My score is now not placed on the scoreboard.
Where can I get the tutorial for the contest? We cannot even see others' submissions also.