We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 173, this Wednesday, 12th February, rated for users with rating < 2700.

• Time: 8:00 PM — 10:30 PM IST
• Ranking: ICPC Style

Joining us on the problem-setting panel are:

• Setters: IceKnight1093, yuvrajKharayat, Proelectro444, sai-17, RighterTheOriginal, Newtech66, Ayush

• Testers: physics0523, djm03178, TyroWhizz, bananasaur, targeter2004, Proelectro444, weirdflexbutok, shorya1835, Soumil69, ghoul932, envariant, harshith_04, Prady, Newtech66, abhijain565aj, Tirth11, ShreyHehe, MehtaSaheb, Voiceofthecoder

• Contest Admin, Statement Verifier, Text Editorialists: IceKnight1093

Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest. The video editorials of the problems will be available only to Pro users.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here. Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck!

CodeFest is a premier competitive programming event brought to you by IICPC, powered by Hudson River Trading (HRT), co-sponsored by Citadel Securities and Jump Trading with Jane Street, The D.E. Shaw Group and Landeed as Associate sponsors and QuantInsti being the Knowledge Partner.

Codefest is a 3 stage Individual Contest:

• Stage 1 (Prelims) : To be held on Codechef on 12th February 8pm IST
• Stage 2 (Offline Regionals) : 2 Multisite Regionals to be held across 8 IITs.
• Stage 3 (Grand Finale) : To be held in Research Par[user:NAchia]k IIT Madras on 5th April while 6th April 2025 is booked for recruitment round for the firms interested in students through an interview process.

Qualification

There are 400 slots in the Regionals and 50 for the Finals.

• (Prelims to Regionals Qualification) : In the CodeChef Contest, all divisions will have a common Problem set. Top 400 over the aggregate ranklist will move on to the Offline Regionals.
• (Regionals to Finale Qualification) : Top 25 participants from each of the 2 regionals will move on to the Grand Finale.

Prizes

• Certificates for the Top 2,000 rankers in Prelims.
• For Indian Participants: Prize Pool of ~ ₹10,00,000 and work opportunities at our sponsors — Elite International HFT firms (High school, UG, Dual Degree students are all eligible).
• For International Participants: Prize Pool of ₹25,000 to the Top 5 participants in the Prelims leaderboard.

Register now at iicpc.com (plesse clear cache if old website is popping up; new website contains information for Codefest 2025)

More information can be found here — [Invitation] IICPC CodeFest 2025

Congratulations to the Winners

1. Nachia
2. Rubikun
3. snuke
4. potato167
5. shiomusubi496

Thanks for participating; results of Prelims can be found on https://iicpc.com/prelimsresults

Context

We proposed a Div 2 contest in July (on 31st July), and since then, we have been waiting for a coordinator to pick up our proposal. A few weeks past our proposal, KAN posted an update on the queue status as a comment under his blog on setting Div.1 or Div. 2 rounds.

It has been almost 5 months since our proposal (date published) and 3 months since KAN posted that the queue was in July 2024. While it is expected that it takes around 6 months maximum to get a coordinator assigned, there seems to be something off as it's been stuck in July for over 3 months.

Almost every 2 or 3 weeks, someone or another posts a comment enquiring about the current status of the queue, and every time, KAN might not be able to reply, too. So we need a better way to handle this.

Suggestion

I understand that there might be undisclosable challenges behind this, but the experience that has not been so great for the authors who need to check regularly for updates can be improved. A minor upgrade to the existing proposing page — addition of information on

• the current queue length
• the date published of the most recent contest proposal that's assigned a coordinator

would be good. This info would give an idea to those who have their proposals in the queue and those who wanna propose their contests. Also, it ain't complicated to implement either, in my opinion. I wonder why it's not been done.

It's just a tiny suggestion, would be happy to know any difficulties behind doing this or any better ways... :-)

UPD I will tag Mike on 100 upvotes!

CodeClub IIT Kharagpur brings to you CodeNite 2024, a competitive programming contest with individual participation to be held on CodeChef. This contest is OPEN TO ALL, irrespective of college, year of study, or department.

Details are as follows:

• Date: Friday, 25th October 2024

• Time: 20:00 to 23:00 IST (GMT+05:30)

• Platform: CodeChef

Prizes:

• 1st — 4000 INR

• 2nd — 2500 INR

• 3rd — 1500 INR

• 4th — 1000 INR

• 5th — 1000 INR

Setters: picramide, morphinecode, harshit_jain52, aryansanghi, gayathri_anant, Cat_watcher

Testers: anubhavdhar, harshith_04, Yash23kr, anitm

Contest Page: https://www.codechef.com/CDNT2024

Register here if you want to take part and be eligible for the prizes: https://forms.gle/nMr6WQ8k6cdWDmba9

Deadline to register: 8 PM, 25th October 2024

NOTE — Though everyone is encouraged to participate, only Indian college students are eligible for prizes.

See you all on the leaderboard!

Congratulations to the Winners!

1. Dominater069
2. SmolBrain
3. shrapnelzz
4. a_garg
5. CoderAbhi27

To all my fellow cpers and preferably Candidate Masters I need your help to become a Purple, any tips or suggestions (resources) are greatly appreciated :)

Thanks <3