Hello Codeforces!
After the great success of Alkhwarizm 2024, we are excited to invite you all to the following two flagship coding events of Aparoksha — the annual tech-fest of IIIT Allahabad.
- CodeRed
- Humblefool Cup
Participation is open to all, but the prizes are only for Indian university/school students. We encourage everyone to participate in these contests. All of these contests are unrated and will be held as CodeForces gym contest.
CodeRed
CodeRed is an ICPC-style coding contest for problem-solving enthusiasts. Compete in teams of up to 3 in two rounds — Online Qualifiers and Onsite Finals.
Details:
Online Round (Qualifying round)
- ICPC-style coding contest
- Date & Time : Tuesday April 2 , 2024 at 20:00 IST
- Prizes: INR 6K (1st: INR 3K, 2nd: INR 2K, 3rd: INR 1K)
- Registration Form : click here (Deadline : April 2 , 2024 at 10:30 IST)
- Contest Link : click here
- The Global Top 25 teams in this round along with 15 selected teams from IIITA will proceed to the second round.
Onsite (Final) Round:
- Date & Time : Friday April 12 , 2024 at 9:00 IST
- Prizes: INR 16K (1st: INR 9K, 2nd: INR 4K, 3rd: INR 3K)
- Venue: IIIT Allahabad campus
Humblefool Cup
Humblefool Cup is a prestigious international coding contest honoring the late Harsha Suryanarayana, aka Humblefool, an illustrious IIIT Allahabad alumnus. Join us coding fanatics, as we dive into a fierce competition commemorating one of India's finest coders.
Details:
- Date: Tuesday April 16 , 2024 at 20:00 IST
- Mode: Online
- Prizes: INR 17K (1st: INR 10K, 2nd: INR 5K, 3rd: INR 2K)
- Format: Single-person, no teams allowed.
- Registration Link : click here
- Contest Link : click here
We would like to thank:
- Setters: pvtr, Ishaan_23, shekharh433, pbshayar, agrim07, NirbhayPaliwal, Fremder, simplesheep03
- Testers (CodeRed): Homie_Lander, goats_9, aman_bhatt, bihariforces
- Testers (Humblefool Cup): Homie_Lander, goats_9, aman_bhatt, Abhishek_Srivastava, itzzRaghav, NotRequired
Looking forward to seeing you all in the standings. Make sure you read all the problems carefully. Good luck and have fun!
Note: Ideas for some of the problems have been derived from our proposal for Codechef Starters 122. If you are aware of these problems, kindly refrain from participating.
Happy coding!
UPD1: Registration for CodeRed has started.
UPD2: Editorial for CodeRed is out now .
UPD3: Due to system testing issues, we are postponing the Humblefool Cup to a later date. The new date will be announced soon.
UPD4: You can participate in the CodeRed final mirrors, by the following link
- Date: 11 AM IST, 12th April 2024
- Contest Link (Finals, Mirror): click here
- Reminder: the contest starts in 30 minutes.
UPD5: There will be no further extension to the CodeRed finals. We will consider all the submission from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. IST.
UPD6: Congratulations to the winners of CodeRed Finals! To view the final leaderboard / solve the problems, click the following link.
- OverShadow: Coder_Nayak, Krypto_Ray, sloppy_coder
- Hamse na ho paayega: pk_27, uewbv, Light_KG
- Convex Chull: abhidot, JaySharma1048576, yash_daga
UPD6: Updated contest Date and Time of HumbleFool Cup is Tuesday April 16 , 2024 at 20:00 IST
- Reminder: The Humblefool Cup starts in 5 minutes, self-register yourself here.
UPD7: Congratulations to the winners of HumbleFool Cup! To view the final leaderboard / solve the problems, click the following link.
Global Top 3
Indian Top 3
pvtr orz
pvtr excited.
Humblefool orz!
I'm unable to register for the contest. When I click on 'Register', it asks for the team's name but the dropdown list is empty even though I registered my team through the Google Form.
first you have to create the team in cf. go to your profile then teams and create it with your partners. Then come back to the registration.
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Were you able to register?
No
As Starters 122 tester, I bet problems will be fun.
orz!
approach for B ?
dp with 3 states index, winner and loser
Can anyone tell the solution of I problem. My approach:- If number of indices where a[i]>a[i+1] is greater than equal to 3 then it should be NO and for 1,2 I am just choosing two indices greedily and brute forcing whether my array will be sorted or not but wrong on test2. If count of such indices is 2 then my operation will be on those indices and I am checking for all the combinations in those 4 indices (i,i+1,j,j+1 where a[i]>a[i+1] and a[j]>a[j+1]). Somewhat similar I am doing when count equal to 1 either i will be choosing min(x,y) or max(x,y) for that (i,i+1).
The intended solution is, you can fix at most two "bad" indices. An index $$$i$$$ is bad if $$$i \leq i + 1$$$, now try to make cases for the indices and check if the array can be sorted.
Also we found out in the contest that there are many easier dp solution as well, take states as index and status of the operation applied
Thanks, missed a case while implementing.
Please change the privileges accordingly , so that others solution can be seen
Can you please provide the editorial of this contest? Fremder
We are working on Editorial. It will be uploaded shortly.
when will be editorial uploaded for this contest?
why the delay?
I don't think the queue will be ending within the next 15 mins.
I guess the system testing is gonna take much longer than you are expecting Fremder. I think it will take upto 9 : 30 pm IST.
So much delay now, I'm going!
Just postpone the round to another day,queue is not going to clear in next 5-6 hrs.
Good Decision
Submissions are in queue for about 20 minutes now.
what is the idea for C1, C2. Are they related?
C1 and C2, are mostly unrelated.
If you remove an edge, the optimal answer will always be adjacent to the removed edge.
Try something similar to rerooting dp, calculate answer for all the houses using prefix sums.
thanks a lot!
Nice set of problems,although E was easy for its place.
Most of the problems in this round had pretty much similar difficulty levels, as our more difficult problems were used up in CodeRed Finals :-)
When can we expect the prize money ?
It's so bad nowadays...people devoting their time to a contest all to get ignored when querying about the rightful things Fremder
For Prize money mail will be send to winners , sorry for the delay .
Any update on the prizes Fremder
Working on it , will mail ASAP
NGL cash is much needed right now