Hello everybody!

Today, on March 4th 2018 the final round of Technocup olympiad for Russian-speaking high school students is held. The round starts at 11:30 Moscow time.

After the round starts, you can watch the current results.

For those who want to compete on the same problems, we will host two Codeforces rounds: one for the first, and one for the second division. The rounds will start at 15:35 UTC, don't miss them!

If you compete in the Final Round today, you can't compete in the rounds at evening.

The problems are prepared by Endagorion, komendart, rationalex, AndreySergunin, fcspartakm, MikeMirzayanov and me. For testing the problems many thanks to demon1999, Belonogov, vintage_Vlad_Makeev, adedalic, budalnik, GreenGrape, Neon! Also many thanks to vintage_Vlad_Makeev for his help in hosting the round at Codeforces!

P.S. Because of the olympiad, some Codeforces features may be disabled today.

Good luck!

UPD: Congratulations to Technocup winners!

1. qoo2p5
2. dima_z
3. 300iq

Congratulations to winners of Codeforces rounds!

First division:

1. V--o_o--V
2. Petr
3. Merkurev
4. Benq
5. dotorya

Second division:

1. Deanamic_Programming
2. kiber
3. shad0w_walker
4. Vitalya
5. Geothermal

Hello everybody!

On Mar 3, 10:00 Moscow time, Round 1 of Yandex.Algorithm 2018 competition will take place. I wrote the majority of the problems in this contest, with some additional help from GlebsHP.

I would like to thank GlebsHP for all his help with coordinating this round, MikeMirzayanov for polygon, and of course, everyone who took the time to test this round.

See you in the competition soon!

Editorial here: http://codeforces.net/blog/entry/58135

Editorial

Hello!

Codeforces Round 467 (Div. 1) and Codeforces Round 467 (Div. 2) will take place on February, 25 at 14:35 UTC. Most of the problems are Innopolis Open Olympiad in Informatics problemset. We ask olympiad participants not to take part in Codeforces rounds and not to discuss the problems till the end of the rounds.

Problems were prepared by: niyaznigmatul, pashka, vintage_Vlad_Makeev, VArtem, burakov28, budalnik, YakutovDmitriy, dusja.ds, GreenGrape, tourist. We thank testers: demon1999, craborac, the_art_of_war, qrort, .tx, izban и julsa.

Good luck!

UPD: The round is rescheduled to +1.5 hours to avoid collisions with other events.

Hello everybody!

Tomorrow in unusual time round will be held using problemset of Moscow programming competition for school students of grades from 6 to 9. Do not be tricked by the age range of the participants, Moscow jury always tries its best to select interesting problems of various topics. Problems were developed by halin.george, Sehnsucht, cdkrot, vintage_Vlad_Makeev and ch_egor.

Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for an excellent platform Codeforces for contests and an excellent platform Polygon, which greatly simplifies the preparation of contests.

Thanks to V--o_o--V for reducing the statements and translating them into english.

Hope to see you in the standings!

UPD1: Scoring 500-1250-1250-1500-2000-2750

UPD2: Our problemsetters are tired because of olympiad, so editorial will be a bit later. We apologize for it.

Winners:

Division 2:

1. zzs_dasc

2. Kataoka_Yuuki

3. AkiLotus

4. tshil

5. WatchClannad

Division 1 + 2 (unofficial):

1. uwi

2. zzs_dasc

3. fmota

4. Kataoka_Yuuki

5. eddy1021

UPD3: Editorial

Hello, Codeforces!

I'd like to invite you to Codeforces Round #465 (Div. 2) which takes place on Monday, 19 February 2018 at 19:35 MSK. The round will be rated for division 2 participants. However, as usual division 1 can take part out of competition.

The round is prepared by my friends Kammola, Ahmad_Elsagheer, MostafaAbdullah and me (AhmedSoliman). Besides, many thanks to 300iq, mike_live, Arpa, GreenGrape and FalseMirror for testing the round, KAN for coordinating the round and MikeMirzayanov for the great Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them. The scoring distribution will be announced later. Good luck!

UPD1: Scoring is 500 — 750 — 1250 — 1750 — 2250 — 2750

UPD2: Congratulations to the winners!

Division 1 :

1. Benq
2. eddy1021
3. KrK
4. kmjp
5. chemthan

Division 2 :

1. Iiu_runda
2. FlzzyDavid
3. baggins
4. sorry_teamskiy
5. InkyFlameMaster

UPD3: The Editorial is available now!

Thank you everyone!

In case you want to take part in Yandex.Algorithm 2018 but somehow haven't registered yet, you might want to follow this link.

Qualification round has started at 00:00 Moscow time, February 17th. Round is a virtual competition 100 minutes long. You can start it at any moment of time till 23:59 on Sunday, February 18th (Moscow time).

We recall that in order to be able to participate in elimination stage one needs to accept at least one problem at qualification round. However, everyone who managed to accept at least one problem during warm-up has already qualified to the next stage.

Judges ask all the participant to withdraw from any problem discussion and do not publish any solutions till 01:40, February 19th.

Good luck, we hope that you will enjoy the problems!