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 July Challenge 2014 . The July 2014 Algorithm Challenge is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/JULY14.

Here are the details:
Date: 4th July 2014 to 14th July 2014
Duration: 10 days
Problems: 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels + 1 challenge problem.

Problem Setters: - Dmytro Berezin (Berezin), - Gerald Agapov (gerald) - Lalit Kundu (darkshadows), - Sergey Nagin (Sereja), - Vitalij Kozhukhivskij (Witalia), - Vitaliy Herasymiv (witua), - Vivek Hamirwasia (viv001),

Problem Testers: - Gerald Agapov (gerald) - Jingbo Shang(shangjingbo)

Editorialist: - Devendra Agarwal (devuy11243)

Mandarin Translator: - Kojima Minako (xiaodao) - Gedi Zheng (stzgd)

Russian Translator: - Sergey Kulik (CherryTree),

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.