Hi everyone!

The ACM ICPC season is in full swing, and the Northwestern European Regional Contest (NWERC) is not so far away from now. This is why the University of Cambridge held a selection contest for its 9 teams to determine the best (two or more) teams that will compete for a place in the world finals. In the end, the following teams took the top 5 places in order:

1. Fin! IRO (pooya_, bogdan2412, VladGavrila)
2. Beuler (borisgrubic, lm497, dcevid)
3. Rooftop Cornflakes (eduardische, Chortos-2, Gullesnuffs)
4. Zrakomlati (PetarV, mbucic4, dsobot)
5. CRTCM (Voro94, Andip, hadesgames)

Congratulations!

The competition was held on the CodeForces platform and prepared by me and MikeMirzayanov. It was organized by University of Cambridge lecturer Dr Andrew Rice, eduardische Chortos-2 and the coach of the Latvian IOI team Sergey Melnik. The contest itself used the problem set of the Southern Subregional (NEERC) ACM ICPC quarterfinal 2013. Yes, the same quarterfinal whose online version will be held as a contest in the Codeforces gym on 27 October. ;] You may have just thought that you missed something unusual on CF, but nothing of the kind! The contest was run using a (still secret) future Codeforces tool in test mode; the name is groups.

This functionality will give the opportunity to hold contests only for a specific set of participants and spectators. A manager of the group adds users to the group and chooses their access restriction types. Only group members can participate in contests within this group, as well as observe their results. As you can see, groups are well-fit for on-site contests of various sorts. Indeed, this time we used the test version of this tool exactly for this purpose. Special thanks to MikeMirzayanov for the opportunity to try this new functionality! Now I'll leave a couple of teaser pictures for you: ;]

In conclusion, a few words about the selection itself. The number of problems solved by the top 5 teams is 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, which is a serious claim from the University of Cambridge compared to the results of the on-site of the same quarterfinal. ;] During the contest, the top three teams were engaged in an intense struggle for the first two places, but in the middle of the contest Fin! IRO made their way to the top and held a stable lead with many solved problems. Teams Beuler and Rooftop Cornflakes kept pace almost until the end of the contest, until the former solved a whole two problems in the last hour. The latter also then managed to solve two problems in the last hour, but Beuler got an accepted submission for problem D at 4:47 and secured the 2nd place, while Rooftop Cornflakes got the 3rd. The full results of the teams from Cambridge will be embedded into the results of the gym contest on the problems from the Southern (NEERC) quarterfinal.

Hello,

Did you already notice that this Sunday it will be Internet-version of 2013-2014 ACM-ICPC, NEERC, Southern Subregional Contest? It will start on 07:00 (UTC).

The contest will be held in Gym. I invite teams mostly because the contest was designed as a team contest.

I'm sure this contest is a great way to train before coming regional (or subregional for some of you) ACM-ICPC contest.

Hi everybody!

When you've seen my nickname you probably thought: "Finally! At least this round is not made by Sereja! And you are right! I, Dmytro Berezin(Berezin) give this round... and my neighbour Sergii Nagin(Sereja)

The action will take place in Friday, 25th october, 19:30.

Thanks to Gerald Agapov(Gerald) and Maria Belova(Delinur) for help in preperation and translation of problems respectively.

Thanks to Yaroslav Tverdokhlib(KADR) for help in testing.

You have to help Dima equip his personal life :)

The point values for this cause is 500 1000 1500 2000 3000.

Sergii strongly recommends you to read all the tasks.

I highly recommend you also to try to solve them.

Thank you for your attention, and have a successful round!

Tutorial: http://codeforces.net/blog/entry/9334

Welcome to 2013-2014 CT S01E07: Codeforces Trainings Season 1 Episode 7. The training duration is 5 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 availible as a virtual contest for whose of you who can't take part today. Please, do not cheat. Only fair play!

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

The registration will be available on the Gym page and will be opened until the end of the training. Be careful registering team: please, choose only whose members who will take part in the contest.

Good luck!

Welcome to 2013-2014 CT S01E06: 2002-2003 ACM-ICPC Northwestern European Regional Contest (NWERC 2002) + Some Problems from COCI and POI. The training duration is 5 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 availible as a virtual contest for whose of you who can't take part today. Please, do not cheat. Only fair play!

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

The registration will be available on the Gym page and will be opened until the end of the training. Be careful registering team: please, choose only whose members who will take part in the contest.

Good luck!

Hi all.

Today there is a school regional team competition in programming in Saratov. We've decided to make a round using tasks from this competition. The problems were prepared by Gerald (Gerald Agapov), Fefer_Ivan (Ivan Fefer), HolkinPV (Pavel Kholkin), Igor_Kudryashov (Igor Kudryashov), IlyaLos (Ilya Los) and Nerevar (Dmitry Matov). The problems' statements were translated into english by Mary Belova (Delinur).

The round starts today, on 15th of October, at 16:00 MSK. Parcipants from both divisions are welcome to take part in it.

The scoring is standard: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

Congratulations to the winners!

Division I:

1. tourist
2. mmaxio
3. Dmitry_Egorov
4. iwiwi
5. bmerry

Division II:

1. Apsara
2. ZJUDBLab
3. noxe
4. intsashka
5. Kanari

UPD: The tutorial is published.

Hello everyone!

Very soon on 13 october at 19:30 MSK will take place Codeforces Round #206. I am author of the problems and it's my first round!

I would like to thank problem coordinator Gerald Agapov (Gerald), Evgeny Vihrov (gen) for problem testing and Mary Belova (Delinur) for translation of statements to English. Special thanks to Michael Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) for marvelous Codeforces and Polygon systems.

Score distribution will be standard in both divisions: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

I wish good luck for everyone and hope that you will enjoy the problems!

Congratulations to the winners! Special congratulations to rng_58, the only participant, who have solved all 5 problems!

First division:

1. rng_58
2. sankear
3. VArtem
4. sillycross
5. Endagorion

Second division:

1. sola_93
2. Bega
3. squirtle
4. Dixtosa
5. anupam.kanyal

UPD The editorial has been published.

Hi to all!)

Regular round Codeforces #205 for participants from 2 division will take place today. Traditional, participants from 1 division can take part out of the competition.

The problems were prepared by Igor Kudryashov (Igor_Kudryashov) and Gerald Agapov (Gerald). Also thanks to Michael Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) for very cool system Codeforces and Mary Belova (Delinur) for translating the problems into english.

We wish everyone good luck, high rating and excellent mood)

UPD: It is decided to use dynamic scoring system.

UPD 2: The contest is over, thanks to all participants.

Congratulations to the winners:

1. hos_epic
2. gzh1996n
3. I_LOVE_ELE

UPD 3: you can find the tutorial here

On Satudray, Oct 12, at 12:00 PM another 5-hour contest in Codeforces Gym will be held. It's the second time we prepare qualification contest for Samara SAU teams to determine who deserves to participate in Southern Subregional Contest in Saratov (the previous such contest can be found here).

Maybe you know that team Teddy Bears is no longer able to take part in ACM ICPC. It resulted in renaming and renumbering the teams in the university. You have an unique opportunity to defeat new first team of Samara SAU and show them at what place they can finish in Subregional Contest. Don't miss this chance!

Contest is over. Now you can just solve the problems or take part in the virtual contest.

Many thanks to Xellos who made a tutorial.

Welcome to 2013-2014 CT S01E05: 2007 Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC 2007) + Selected Problems from 2009 Google Code Jam World Finals (GCJ WF 2009). The training duration is 5 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 availible as a virtual contest for whose of you who can't take part today. Please, do not cheat. Only fair play!

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

The registration will be available on the Gym page and will be opened until the end of the training. Be careful registering team: please, choose only whose members who will take part in the contest.

Good luck!