Hey everyone!

Good news — Russian AI Cup 2017 has started! This competition is being held for the sixth time, and this time, hopefully, we will make happy all the fans of the RTS game genre — you will be controlling 500 vehicles of 5 different types at once. The task is to destroy the opponent!

Try yourself in creating an artificial intelligence, it's simple and fun. Go to Russian AI Cup site and enter the battle. Good luck!

The contest is declared unrated. For Technocup, results of this round will be counted for elimination. Also, we plan to hold one more (the fourth) elimination round to compensate this failure. Stay tuned for updates. We apologize for the situation, hope you enjoyed the problems.

Hello.

If you are upset about today round, I understand you. Please, downvote this blog instead of the official announcement. The coordinator, writers and tester did a great job making the round. But technical issues erased their effort.

The chain of technical issues leaded to so bad work of the website. This week our server with Polygon system had broken and Mail.Ru quckly replaced it with another one. I forgot to reconfigure Polygon on the new server and it leaded to 502 during the contest. Also today one Codeforces server stopped to respond and I do not know the reason yet (it is first time issue with this server).

Right now I feel myself very upset and thinking about the way to change an approach to have enough time to setup, monitor and develop the system.

Sorry again about it.

Hi all!

This weekend, at 16:05 UTC on November 12th, 2017 we will hold Codeforces Round 445. It is based on problems of Technocup 2018 Elimination Round 3 that will be held at the same time.

Technocup is a major olympiad for Russian-speaking high-school students, so if you fall into this category, please register at Technocup 2018 website and take part in the Elimination Round.

I want to thank MrKaStep, komendart, veschii_nevstrui, bixind, AndreySergunin and DPR-pavlin, who authored and prepared problems for Technocup, and Lewin, who kindly suggested the last problem. I also want to thank zemen and AlexFetisov for testing the round.

Div. 1 and Div.2 editions are open and rated for everyone. Register and enjoy the contests!

UPD: We apologize that we run into technical issues during the round. The round will be unrated. I hope you liked the problems.

Anyway, congratulations to winners!

Технокубок 2018 - Отборочный Раунд 3

1. potapov_al
2. 300iq
3. qoo2p5
4. Vosatorp
5. manoprenko

Codeforces Round 445 (Div. 1, based on Technocup 2018 Elimination Round 3)

1. V--o_o--V
2. Petr
3. Um_nik
4. SirShokoladina
5. LHiC

Codeforces Round 445 (Div. 2, based on Technocup 2018 Elimination Round 3)

1. mosthenio
2. Ingus
3. paulsohn
4. xX_ucfNOTpt_Xx
5. Omar_Morsi

Editorial is published.

Hello Codeforces!

On November 09, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 32 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.

The round will be unrated for all users and 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 Mikhail awoo Piklyaev and me.

Good luck to all participants!

UPD: Editorial.

I also have a message from our partners, Harbour.Space University:

Thank you for taking part in the 2nd Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC. It was a pleasure to have you on board. We hope you enjoyed it and we would love to have you back next time.

Congratulations ITMO and Harbour.Space University teams for winning divisions A and B! It was amazing watching the scoreboard throughout all nine days as teams from New South Wales, Saint Petersburg, Tokyo, among many others, challenged the top spots. Watch the recap here!

``Geometry is the key to success in modern contests'' states Andrey Stankevich, coach of 7 ACM-ICPC World Champions

Lecturing both divisions A and B, Andrey brought a vast wealth of knowledge to the boot camp, and shed light on how to better tackle the problem sets that teams will face in their upcoming regional competitions.

“What technology should we use to analyze big data?” asks Alexey Dral, Head of Data Science School at Corporate University of Sberbank

Leisure day was a full one, with bus city tours, to gaming, to lectures and workshops. We had many special guests Sberbank, including Alexey Dral, who talks about the impact of a boot camp that is not only focused on the coding aspect, but the machine learning, the data processing and the practices that each participant can utilise to become an ACM-ICPC competitor to be reckoned with.

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Hi everyone!

On this Saturday I'm giving a lecture on Fast Fourier Transform on Moscow International Workshop ACM ICPC. Due to this I wrote lecture notes which anybody can use as reference for Fast Fourier Transform. I added there almost anything one should need while using FFT in contests. Even if you suppose you know the algorithm I dare you to look this paper through since there still can be some new ideas for you. Also you can see Russian version here.

Hello Codeforces!

Round will start on Thursday, 3 November in 19:05 MSK.

Tasks are prepared by Anton Garder (.31) and me, Shpakovskiy Denis (Denisson). Thanks to 300iq, Glebodin, FalseMirror, cdkrot, Arpa, Starcall for testing problems, vintage_Vlad_Makeev for coordination and translation, MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

You will have six problems to solve in 2.5 hours.

Hope you will enjoy problems. Good luck to all!

Scoring: 500—1000—1500—2000—2500—3000

We want to apologise for mistakes in problem statements that led to round being unrated

Editorial.

Hello Codeforces!

On October 27, 17:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 31 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.

The round will be unrated for all users and 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 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were prepared by Ivan BledDest Androsov, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Alexey Perforator Ripinen, Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov and me.

Good luck to all participants!

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

259 successful hacks and 368 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

UPD: Editorial is uploaded