Hello!

Codeforces Round 486 (Div. 3) will start on June 1 (Friday) at 14:35 (UTC). It will be the third Div.3 round in the history of Codeforces. You will be offered 6 problems with expected difficulties to compose an interesting competition for participants with ratings up to 1600. Probably, participants from the first division will not be at all interested by this problems. And for 1600-1899 the problems will be too easy. However, all of you who wish to take part and have rating 1600 or higher, can register for the round unofficially.

The round will be hosted by rules of educational rounds (extended ACM-ICPC). Thus, during the round, solutions will be judged on preliminary tests, and after the round it will be a 12-hour phase of open hacks. I tried to make strong tests — just like you will be upset if many solutions fail after the contest is over.

Remember that only the trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. As it is written by link, this is a compulsory measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as a trusted participants of the third division, you must:

• take part in at least two rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
• do not have a point of 1900 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600, then the round will be rated for you.

Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for the platform, help with ideas for problems and for coordination of my work. Thanks to Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and Ivan BledDest Androsov for testing the round.

UPD: I also would like to thank step_by_step and eddy1021 for testing the round and help with it preparation!

UPD2: You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

UPD3: Editorial is published. Thanks to Mikhail awoo Piklyaev for the help with translation.

UPD4:

Congratulations to the winners (official results):

Congratulations to the best hackers:

530 successful hacks and 401 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

And finally people who were the first to solve each problem:

I hope that you will like the problems. If the problems in this round are too easy or too hard, then we will adjust the difficulties in the next Div. 3 rounds.

Good luck!

Hello!

I'm glad to invite you all to Round 485 which will take place on Tuesday, May 29 at 18:35 UTC+3.

There will be 6 problems in each division, 3 of them are shared between divisions. 2 of div.2 problems created by KAN, 7 others created by me. The contest duration is 2 hours. My problems were originally used in HSE Championship.

I would like to thank Merkurev and GlebsHP with whom I discussed the problems, I_love_Tanya_Romanova for testing, KAN for round coordination and Codeforces and Polygon team for these beautiful platforms. I would also like to thank HSE for organizing the event. Oh, and kb. for writing great legend for one of the problems (he will be surprised).

For those who for some reason like to know score distribution in advance:
div.2: 500 — 1000 — 1250 — 1750 — 2250 — 3000
div.1: 500 — 1000 — 1750 — 2500 — 2750 — 3000
But I didn't properly discuss it with KAN so this is subject to change :)
UPD: Discussed with KAN, scores for C and D in div.2 increased by 250.

Good fun, have problems, read all the luck. As usual.

Oh, and if there will be no bad things, round will be rated. I hope.

I'm very sorry for issues with queue. I understand that it could ruin the contest for many of you. But please be understanding. Bad things happen. It could be some network problems or some electricity problems. MikeMirzayanov, KAN and other people behind Codeforces trying their best to provide good service. But sometimes it's very hard for some reasons. I hope that you enjoyed the problems despite all the bad things.

We decided that round will be rated.

Editorial will be posted tomorrow.

div.1 winners:
1. tourist
2. jqdai0815
3. Radewoosh
4. webmaster
5. LHiC

div.2 winners:
1. sminem
2. Fortza_Gabi_Tulba
3. cheburazshka
4. Lomk
5. 2ez4me

Editorial is up.

Hi!

I'm glad to invite you to take part in Avito Code Challenge 2018 which starts on May/27/2018 17:50 (Moscow time). Any participant can join the round and it will be rated for each participant. Hope to see you among the participants!

Problems are prepared by me — Ildar Gainullin.

This round is conducted on the initiative and support of Avito. Avito.ru is a Russian classified advertisements website with sections devoted to general good for sale, jobs, real estate, personals, cars for sale, and services. Avito.ru is the most popular classifieds site in Russia and is the third biggest classifieds site in the world after Craigslist and the Chinese website 58.com.

Many thanks to Vladislav winger Isenbaev, Grigory vintage_Vlad_Makeev Reznikov, Ivan isaf27 Safonov，Alexander AlexFetisov Fetisov and Shiqing cyand1317 Lyu for the round testing, Nikolay KAN Kalinin for helping me to prepare the contest, and also to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for systems Codeforces and Polygon.

Participants will be offered eight problems and three hours to solve them. Scoring will be announced a bit later.

Avito presents nice gifts for participants. Top 30 participants and also 10 random participants with places 31-130 will be awarded with a special T-shirt.

I hope everyone will find interesting problem for themselves. Wish everyone a successful round and high ratings!

Good luck!

UPD，Scoring： 500 750 1250 1750 2250 2750 3250 3750

UPD，Editorial is ready： Editorial!

The winners of random t-shirts are:

Hello, Codeforces!

I offer you also to join testing of HTTPS support. Just visit to https://codeforces.net/ and start to use the website through HTTPS.

I am aware of some minor issues: mails still refer to the HTTP version of the website, Facebook does not merge likes for HTTP and HTTPS. Have you noticed anything else? Write a comment!

And thanks to Let's Encrypt for the certificates. Now with wildcards!

Hello, Codeforces!

We are pleased to announce the 3rd Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ICPC, organised by Harbour.Space University with content provided by Moscow Workshops ICPC, in collaboration with Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg State University and Codeforces!

The boot camp will be held from 26 September to 4 October, 2018 in Barcelona, and hosted at the beautiful and technologically mind-bending Media-TIC building — the Smart Building of Tomorrow.

The world's greatest coaches training the participants of Moscow Workshops ICPC events will be attending the programming bootcamp: Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov, Andrey andrewzta Stankevich, Michael Endagorion Tikhomirov, Gleb GlebsHP Evstropov, Artem VArtem Vasilyev, Ivan ifsmirnov Smirnov and other world renowned Russian coaches. The Chief Judge of the camp is Oleg snarknews Khristenko. It will be an important opportunity for teams from all over the world to learn from these well-known and successful coaches in the ICPC world.

“The participants are facing the problems from real contests selected by our coaches. In competitive programming it’s very important to have real solving experience: one thing is to be able to solve problems staying in comfortable environment of one’s university but championships are completely different. The only way to get ready for the extreme conditions of ICPC is to visit our programming boot-camps”, says Alexey Maleev, the founder of Moscow Workshops ICPC.

So how do you get the most out of the camp? "I think there is no universal solution for "get the most out of a camp" – everyone should find their own path, but the general guideline will be: communicate with other participants as much as you can, make sure you do upsolving (at least some), keep track of how much you sleep," says Gleb GlebsHP Evstropov, coach.

A look back on our recent boot camp:

“Having visited all the Hello Programming Bootcamps, I left the events feeling inspired from the overall atmosphere. I am sure that all teams received an immense amount of knowledge and skill. As one of the coaches, all of the flattering reviews about the camp from the participants were pleasant for me to hear. I am very glad that these camps are becoming regular. Harbour.Space University and Moscow Workshops ICPC have done a job worthy of admiration!” says Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov.

The Bootcamp will be split into three divisions:

• Division A. Designed to prepare students to excel and win medals in the next ICPC World Finals.
• Division B. Designed to help teams prepare for the next season of ICPC Regionals and international competitions. This is an appropriate introduction for teams and students new to the world of ICPC and competitive programming competitions in general. The Division B curriculum features thematic lectures and contests.

The participation fee is unchanged: €1270 per person (cultural programme, accommodation and half-board meals included). Single participants and teams must register before July 1st, 2018 to receive the 15% off Early Bird Discount, or the 20% off Loyalty Discount, which is awarded to teams that participated in previous Hello Programming Bootcamps or Moscow Workshops ICPC boot camps.

Learn more about Barcelona ICPC Bootcamp

You can ask any questions by email: [email protected]

In order to experience the atmosphere of the event, we suggest you familiarise yourself with the photos and videos from the previous Hello Programming Bootcamps in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ICPC.

Learn more about Harbour.Space University

Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the university or our programmes: [email protected]

Hello Codeforces!

On May/21/2018 17:45 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 44 will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

This round will be rated for the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov and me.

Good luck to all participants!

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

And finally people who were the first to solve each problem:

UPD: Editorial is uploaded

Code Jam R2 starts in ~24h (Saturday, May 19th 14:00 UTC)

Let's discuss the problems after the contest!

Hello, Codeforces!

I'd like to invite you to Codeforces Round #484 (Div. 2). It'll be held on May/17/2018 19:35 (Moscow time) and Div. 1 participants can join it out of competition. Please pay attention that round starts in the unusual time!

Me and Andrey API Pikas prepared the tasks for this round.

Great thanks to Nikolay KAN Kalinin for helping us preparing the contest, to Mikhail MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for the great Polygon platform and Codeforces and also to Kirill kittylover Samelyuk, Nikolay Apollon76 Permyakov, Dmitry Krainov_Dmitry Krainov, Andrey GreenGrape Rayskiy and Alexey Um_nik Danilyuk for writing solutions.

You'll have to solve six tasks in two hours. The scoring distribution will be announced later

Good luck!

UPD Score distribution 500-1000-1500-2000-2500-3000

UPD2 Congratulations to the winners of the division 2:

1. Kotori_Is_My_Wife

2. vosptu

3. ez_zkj

4. relativity

5. iordache.bogdan

And also our congratulations to the winners of both divisions:

1. Claris

2. Benq

3. Kotori_Is_My_Wife

4. kmjp

5. vosptu

UPD3 The editorial will be published tomorrow.

UPD4 Editorial

Hello, Codeforces!

Codeforces Round #483 will take place on May/15/2018 17:45 (Moscow time). The round will be rated for both divisions.

Problems were prepared by FalseMirror, KAN and me.

Many thanks to testers qoo2p5, manoprenko, AlexFetisov, winger, cyand1317 and ashmelev.

Also thanks to MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon and ifsmirnov for jngen.

Upd. The scoring distribution is 500-1000-1500-2000-2500 for div2 and 500-1000-1500- 2250 -2500 for div1.

Congratulations to the winners!

div1:

1. fateice
2. skuecrk
3. Egor
4. dotorya
5. LHiC

div2:

1. wevetriedly
2. mraron
3. dummyies
4. fengsuiyan
5. K.F.Cat

Editorial