Today 2016-2017 ACM-ICPC, NEERC, Southern Subregional Contest will be held. On behalf of jury and hosts I wish teams to make happy their coaches!

You can watch the results by the link https://contest.sgu.ru/monitor/1.

And on Sunday (October, 23) on 08:00 (UTC) we will host unofficial online mirror. Interesting problems are waiting for you. Judges tried to prepare problems of wide difficulty range: for newcomers and for expirienced teams. This will be a team/personal contest on Codeforces, with teams consisting of up to three people or individual participants. The contest will not affect Codeforces ratings.

For sure, it will be unrated contest. We recommend you to take part in teams. I think, the contest will be moved to Gym later.

Good luck!

MikeMirzayanov, head of judges.

Hi Codeforces,

I'm excited to announce the Canada Cup, the first Codeforces contest to be sponsored by Diagram!

This is a rated Codeforces round (with T-shirts!) for both divisions which will take place on October 22 at 11:00am EDT.

Although the contest is organized in Canada, all competitors worldwide will be able to compete and win prizes.

The problems for this round were written me (zxqfl) and the Codeforces team. I'd like to thank:

• My coauthors for contributing great problems to the round
• GlebsHP for his help in preparation
• MikeMirzayanov for creating Codeforces and Polygon
• Tatiana_S for translation into Russian

I'd also like to thank Diagram for sponsoring the round. Diagram is interested in hiring software engineers, so please take a look at the information at the end of this post if you're interested. For anyone outside of Canada, they'd like me to let you know that Canada has friendly immigration policies for software engineers.

Both divisions will compete in the same contest, which will consist of 7 problems of the same difficulty level as a regular Codeforces round. The contest will last for 2.5 hours.

The score distribution will, of course, be announced later.

Here is some information from the round sponsor:

Prizes

• The top 100 competitors will get a Diagram T-shirt.
• Local winners (Montreal): Dinner with Francois Lafortune (CEO, Diagram), founders of Dialogue, and other Montreal technologists
• Local winners (Toronto): Dinner with Karel Vuong (Director, Diagram), founders of Collage, and other Toronto technologists

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UPD Scoring distribution is 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2250 — 2500 — 3250 — 3500.

UPD The contest is over! Congratulations to the top 5:

1. eatmore
2. paulwang
3. zemen
4. mnbvmar
5. riadwaw

If you won a prize, you'll be contacted soon.

UPD Editorial: http://codeforces.net/blog/entry/47974

Hello, Codeforces!

Today, 17th of October at 17:35 MSK Codeforces Round #377 for second division participants will take place. As usual, first division participants are able to participate out of rating.

The round problems are taken from the problemset of regional stage of the All-Russian school team programming olympiad which was taking place yesterday in Saratov. The problemset for onsite competition was invented and prepared by Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov, Ilya IlyaLos Los, Danil danilka.pro Sagunov, Vladimir vovuh Petrov and Roman Roms Glazov. We are thankful for pre-solving competition problems to many of Saratov State U teams' participants. One problem in the round will have a bit harder version than at the competition.

Nikolay KAN Kalinin and Tatyana Tatiana_S Semenova helped us preparing problems and translating for the round — thank you! Thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for the Codeforces and Polygon systems.

There will be 6 problems and 2 and a half hours to solve them at the round. We wish you the best luck!

If you are a participant of the yesterday competition in Saratov, please, do not register for the round and do not participate in it, also do not discuss the problems before the round ends.

UPD Scoring: 500-1000-1500-2000-2000-2500

UPD2

Congratulations to the winners!

Div.2

1. gxgod

2. FizzyDavicl

3. dothanhlam97

4. ngkan

5. Judy.Hopps

Div.1

1. dreamoon_love_AA

2. kmjp

3. NVAL

4. eddy1021

5. pekempey

As soon as the time of registration to the round was a bit early, there may be some first division participants taking part in a line with a second division participants. There are not many of them, so (and due to technical problems) this will be left as is.

Due to NEERC subregionals in Saratov, rating will be updated tomorrow.

UPD3 Editorial

Hi everybody!

Tomorrow at 09:35 UTC there will be Codeforces Round #376 that is dedicated for the second division. At the same time there will be a Moscow School Team Olympiad, and, as a nice tradition, we bring you a CodeForces round based on its problems. Unfortunately, this time we weren't able to come up with a good problemset for a first division contestants, but, as usual, we invite first division to participate unofficially in this round.

Problems were prepared by timgaripov, platypus179, wilwell, Flyrise, ipavlov and vintage_Vlad_Makeev under my control. We would like to thank members of jury of the Team Olympiad: Endagorion, Helen Andreeva and GlebsHP, who also works as a coordinator from the CodeForces side. Also we are very grateful to MikeMirzayanov for a Polygon system that makes problem preparation and coordination of many involved people much simpler, and for a great CodeForces community that we are all part of.

We suggest you 6 problems for 2 hours. Good luck!

UPD The contest is over, results are final, thanks for participating! The editorial will be published later

UPD2 I'm sorry for an editorial delay. It's finally available here.

Congratulations to contest winners:

1. DmitryBelikov
2. ljsss
3. kehKeLenge
4. dilsonguim
5. UoA_Menma

Hello, my dear Codeforcers!

Technocup is the olympiad for Russian-speaking highschool children. The winners will get significant benefits to enroll at Russian universities.

But it become open for everyone! Even if you are not a Russian-speaking highschool children, you can register for unofficial (out-of-olympiad) participation. The problems will be translated to English.

The contest starts on October 15, 09:05 (UTC). It will contain 6 problem to solve.

It will be rated round for:

• official Technocup participants
• unofficial participants from Div. 2

The contest will be hosted according Codeforcers rules.

UPD 1: The scoring is 1000-1000-1500-1500-2500-3000.

Hello, Codeforces!

The seven Moscow International Workshop ACM ICPC 2016 will be organized in collaboration with the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, ITMO University and the MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics from November 8 to 18.

This year, due to the tight schedule of the Subregionals, the term of registration is extended until October 24 for participants from Russia and the surrounding countries who don't need time to issue a visa and until October 15 who participants who do need a visa.

Teams now also have an opportunity to participate in the shortened version of the Workshop from November 8 to 15.

Last year, teams from 20 European and Asian countries participated in the Workshop, and the number of new universities that sent teams to the Workshop grows each year. The majority of participating teams not only become ACM ICPC finalists but win medals too: 8 out of 13 medalists of ACM ICPC World Finals 2016 participated in the Fall and Spring Workshops at MIPT.

Registration: goo.gl/yOR1zv Our website: http://it-edu.mipt.ru/en/fall_training_2016 Our email: [email protected]

Intel Code Challenge Final Round will take place on Saturday, 8 October 15:05 MSK.

All users of the Codeforces can participate in it as in an usual round. The round will be rated and both divisions can participate. Pay attention to the time of the beginning of the round.

There will be 7 problems with statements in english and russian languages and 3 hours to solve them. Scoring distribution will be announced closer to the start of the round.

The problems were prepared by me — Vladislav Epifanov (vepifanov). I want to say thanks to Alexey Shmelev (ashmelev), Alexander Fetisov (AlexFetisov) and Vladislav Isenbaev (winger) for testing the problems, coordinator of the Codeforces Gleb Evstropov (GlebsHP) for his help with the contest preparation, and Mike Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) for the Codeforces and Polygon systems.

UPD. Scoring distribution: 500-1000-1500-1500-2500-2500-2500. Since the round will be 3 hours long, the number of points for each task will decrease slower than in usual round.

UPD. 2 Due to some issues on one of sites for official participation in Intel Code Challenge we shifted the beginning of the round for 10 minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience.

UPD. 3

Final rating changes will be available after removing unfair participants.

Editorial will be published on Sunday, 9 October.

Editorial

UPD. 6

Photos from the onsite event.

Welcome to 2016-2017 CT S03E05: Codeforces Trainings Season 3 Episode 5 (2016 Stanford Local Programming Contest, Extended). The training duration is 4.30 hours. It is opened for teams as well as for individual participants. After the end you may use the practice mode to complete problem solving. Also it will be available as a virtual contest for whose of you who can't take part today. Please, do not cheat. Only fair play!

Visit Codeforces::Gym to find the contest and register.

We are planning to start on October, 5, 2016 13:10 (UTC).

It is possible that the problems will be too easy for some participants, it is possible that we will add some problems.

Good luck!