Happy New Year to the Codeforces community!

Celebrate the new year with CodeChef’s January Long Challenge 2019 sponsored by ShareChat. This programming contest lets you tackle 8 problems over 10 days and it’s open to programmers in every country and at every skill level. The contest problem statements will also be available in English, Hindi, Bengali, Russian, Mandarin and Vietnamese.

Participants will also have the opportunity to apply for jobs at ShareChat — India’s fastest growing social network. Visit the contest link for more details.

I hope you will join your fellow programmers and enjoy the contest problems. Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Admin: mgch (Misha Chorniy)

• Tester: sunset (Xiuhan Wang)

• Statement Verifier: Xellos (Jakub Safin)

• Editorialist: taran_1407 (Taranpreet Singh)

• Setters: bciobanu (Bogdan Ciobanu), whzzt (Zhenting Zhu), mraron (Áron Noszály), TonySnark (Evgenij Artemov), include_sajal (Sajal Agrawal), Deemo (Mohammad Nematollahi), kingofbugs (Hruday Pabbisetty), mgch (Misha Chorniy), PraveenDhinwa (Praveen Dhinwa), Shivam Gupta, l_returns (Smit Mandavia)

• Russian Translator: Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinikov)

• Mandarin Translator: huzecong (Hu Zecong)

• Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI

• Bengali Translator: solaimanope (Mohammad Solaiman)

• Hindi Translator: Akash Shrivastava

Contest Details:

• Start Date & Time: 4th January 2019 (1500 hrs) to 14th January 2019 (1500 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone

• Contest link: https://www.codechef.com/JAN19

• Registration: You just need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. For all those, who are interested and do not have a CodeChef handle, are requested to register in order to participate.

• Prizes: Top 10 performers in Global and Indian category will get CodeChef laddus, with which the winners can claim cool CodeChef goodies. First to solve each problem except challenge — 100 laddus. Know more here: https://www.codechef.com/laddu
  (For those who have not yet got their previous winning, please send an email to [email protected])

Good Luck!

Hope to see you participating!!

Happy Programming!!