Hello Codeforces Community!

CodeChef invites you to participate in CodeChef October Long Challenge at http://www.codechef.com/OCT15 . 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.

Time: 2nd October 2015 (1500 hrs) to 12th October 2015 (1500 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone.

Details: https://www.codechef.com/OCT15

Registration: Just need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. For all those, who are interested, are requested to register in order to participate.

• Problem Setters : abhra73 (Abhra Dasgupta) kingofnumbers (Hasan Jaddouh) TonySnark (Evgeni Artemov), darkshadows (Lalit Kundu), mgch (Misha Chorniy), KaiZeR (Kirill Shchetinin),aangairbender Eugene Kazmin.
• Editorialist & Tester: CherryTree (Sergey Kulik)
• Contest Admin: PraveenDhinwa (Praveen Dhinwa)
• Russian Translator : CherryTree (Sergey Kulik)
• Mandarin Translator: gediiiiiii (Gedi Zheng)
• Vietnamese Translator: VNOI Team
• Language Verifier: RahulArora Rahul Arora

Prizes:

For Indians:

1st prize: INR 12000 2nd prize: INR 8000

For Rest of the world:

1st prize: $400 2nd prize: $300

In addition to the above prizes. Top 10 global, Top 20 Indian, Top 5 school (Indian), Top 5 school (Global), Top 3 challenge problem solvers Indian and Global (apart from the winners) get cool CodeChef goodies, and top 5 girl coders will be provided with goodies, given that they are among top 100 in the final ranklist (this will be irrespective of the region).

It promises to deliver on an interesting set of algorithmic problems with something for all. Good Luck! Hope to see you participating!!