Hello everyone!

Due to great interest we have extended the deadline for registration for Marathon24, the international programming contest for teams of three.

The registration ends on October 15, 2015 at 12:00 PM CEST. You can register and create your team at http://register.marathon24.com.

The online Qualification Round will take place on October 17, 2015 at 9:00 AM CEST.

30 teams with the highest scores will qualify for the Finals which will be held in Warsaw, Poland on November 28-29, 2015.

Visit http://marathon24.com/ for more information and to become familiar with tasks from the previous two editions.

Good luck and have fun!

This is just to inform you that the registration for Marathon24 ends exactly one week from now.

This is just to inform you that the registration for Marathon24, the contest I have advertised earlier, has started!

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I would like to recommend Marathon 24, an annual team programming competition — I have participated in the first two editions and I had lots of fun. Problem writers are also welcome, details are given below.

Hello everyone!

Marathon24 is getting the contest ready for its third edition this fall (online qualifying round on October 17, 2015; and the Grand Final in Warsaw on November 28-29, 2015)!

Meanwhile, we are looking for support in preparing the tasks. We have two types of tasks — in the qualifying round we have optimization and algorithmic problems, each with 10 tests. In the finals there are game-like problems divided into rounds, which require building a strategy, observing the opponents’ moves and being alert for the whole 24 hours of the contest.

Here you can find the problem statements from previous editions of Marathon24: http://www.marathon24.com/archive/#2014-qualifications http://www.marathon24.com/archive/#2013-qualifications

We are also looking for tasks for the qualifyng round and task concepts for the finals. If you have an interesting idea for the task and want to prepare it for Marathon24 — contact us!

Any questions, doubts, suggestions? We’ll be more than happy to answer!

Send us an email to [email protected] and become a contributor to Marathon24! We are waiting for your ideas till Thursday, July 23, 2015.

For more information about the Marathon24 contest, please visit: http://www.marathon24.com.