Haiii Codeforces ^_^

Note the unusual starting time. This round starts 30 minutes before the standard starting time.

vgoofficial and I are extremely excited to invite you to Codeforces Round 979 (Div. 2) on Oct/19/2024 17:05 (Moscow time). You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours and 15 minutes to solve them. One problem will be split into two subtasks. This round will be rated for all participants with rating below 2100.

This round is based on... absolutely nothing.

We would like to mention the following individuals for making the contest possible:

• Our coordinatorz satyam343 for his active and insightful coordination once again. ORZ!!!!

• Our testuwuwuwuers for their efforts in improving this gramazing contest: nifeshe (VIP tester), Thienu, Anonymous_Noob, Dominater069, A_G, Everule, LipArcanjo, omeganot, MridulAhi, 18o3, Edeeva, IceKnight1093, andrewtam, JagguBandar, LMeyling, Intellegent, valeriu, aryanc403, awesomeguy856, kingmessi, amoeba3, golions, unalive, alexlikemath007, fishy15, Vladosiya, NovusStellachan, CutSandstone, chromate00, ntarsis30, Non-origination, redpanda, Lilypad, kevlu8, MatthewC3297, mathtsai, jcai972, and our honorary newbie tester tibinyte.

• Alexdat2000 for translating the statements to Russian.

• The most jacked user on this list, MikeMirzayanov, for developing Codeforces and Polygon.

Score Distribution: $$$250 - 500 - 1000 - 1500 - 2000 - 2500 - (3000 + 1500)$$$

Привет, Codeforces!

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В 14.10.2024 17:35 (Московское время) состоится Educational Codeforces Round 170 (Rated for Div. 2).

Этот раунд будет рейтинговым для участников с рейтингом менее 2100. Соревнование будет проводиться по немного расширенным правилам ICPC. Штраф за каждую неверную посылку до посылки, являющейся полным решением, равен 10 минутам. После окончания раунда будет период времени длительностью в 12 часов, в течение которого вы можете попробовать взломать абсолютно любое решение (в том числе свое). Причем исходный код будет предоставлен не только для чтения, но и для копирования.

Вам будет предложено 6 или 7 задач на 2 часа. Мы надеемся, что вам они покажутся интересными.

Задачи вместе со мной придумывали и готовили Адилбек adedalic Далабаев, Иван BledDest Андросов, Александр fcspartakm Фролов и Максим Neon Мещеряков. Также большое спасибо Михаилу MikeMirzayanov Мирзаянову за системы Polygon и Codeforces.

Данный раунд частично пересекается по задачам с квалификационным этапом Чемпионата Юга и Поволжья России. Если вы участвовали в этом соревновании, то воздержитесь от участия в раунде.

Удачи в раунде! Успешных решений!

UPD: Разбор опубликован

Hola, Codeforces!

We're glad to invite you to take part in Codeforces Round 978 (Div. 2), which will start on Oct/13/2024 22:35 (Moscow time). You will be given 5 problems and 2 hours to solve them. Some problems will be divided into subtasks.

This round is based on day two of the Mexican Olympiad in Informatics (OMI) 2024.

Please note the unusual starting time.

The team of writers is conformed by JuanPabloAmezcua, SebR, Marckess, and myself. We have spent a ton of effort setting the round as well as the Olympiad, we hope you enjoy it.

(This is our logo, cookie points if you can guess the names of the two characters in it)

The team would like to thank:

• errorgorn for the most based coordination. The round exists thanks to him, the team loves you sir.

• All the testers for their support and great feedback: blackyuki, Dominater069, frodakcin, bashkort, wyrqwq, prvocislo, Umi, MeGustaElArroz23, Ari, gxlois, Error_Yuan,_rey, LoboLobo, maomao90, oursaco, willy108, fishy15, AlperenT, JoenPoenMan, Skywk, ozy1220, Daniel19Frenzy, nyaruhodo, OmarFaridAM, karlamun, biank, alexbrii, El_Roge, SpecterByte, dazlersan1, juanbrau.or, HerreraDaniel, saultapiaprogra, viktorchares, mafflopez, tibinyte, zesty, RasecBadguy

• Alexdat2000 for translating statements.

• KAN for believing in the project.

• ocarima the godfather of the Mexican Olympiad in Informatics, for believing in us, all his support and pushing us to grow.

• MikeMirzayanov for creating codeforces, and sorry but I have to say this, the amazing system Polygon.

Score distribution: 750 + 1000 + 1750 + (1750 + 2000) + (2250 + 1000)

We wish you happy coding and good luck to all participants!

Winners Div 1:

1. tourist
2. ecnerwala
3. neal
4. maspy
5. 244mhq

Winners Div 2:

1. tko919
2. thanos_2
3. moonpole
4. vgoofficial
5. hashman

First solve for each problem:

• A:sololtin2001
• B:it.shivam
• C:tourist
• D1:jdurie
• D2:tourist
• E1:rainboy
• E2:rainboy

UPD 1: We have added new testers and score distribution.

UPD 2: There is at least one interactive problem, so please read the guide for interactive problems if you are unfamiliar with them.

UPD 3: The editorial is ready. Congratulations to the winners and first solves for each problem!

Hi everyone!

I'm posting this on behalf of CP-Algorithms, a community project that started off in 2014 by RodionGork as a translation of e-maxx, a Russian go-to resource at the time by e-maxx for learning core competitive programming algorithms. Since then, CP-Algorithms grew quite a lot (which also prompted a rename from original project name e-maxx-eng) and includes a lot of new, original articles, and a lot of translated articles were enhanced and/or extended or even completely rewritten, amounting to a total of 157 articles at the moment.

At the moment, the project is largely maintained by Jakube and adamant (that's me), but as it happens, we don't have as much time to dedicate to it as we used to, so we're looking for some fresh blood to join the effort. This means both potential contributors and maintainers.

Contributors

As a community project, it is largely driven by volunteering efforts of people who write and translate articles. Moreover, similar to previous years, right about now DigitalOcean is conducting Hacktoberfest, an initiative that will award every participant which will make 4 approved pull requests on Github (in participating projects) during the month of October with a cool, free shirt

UPD: sorry, it's just a digital badge on holopin instead of t-shirts starting last year ☹️

Our project participates in Hacktoberfest, so it could be an easy way for you to contribute into open source and get a t-shirt for it. Not sure what to help us with? Consider the following:

• GitHub issues marked with "bug" or "enhancement" tags;
• Translation progress indicates which articles still need to be translated;
• Write a new article on the topic of your liking or from a "new-article-suggestion" tags in GitHub issues;
• Improve old articles (fix typos, grammar, style, etc);
• Add images (make sure they're your original work, or adhere to image's license!).

See How to Contribute page for some instructions, or just click on a pencil icon in the upper-right corner of any article to propose changes. You can also use the Article Preview page to see how your changes will look like when they're actually added to the site. If you still have any questions about the process, don't hesitate to reach out to me directly 😊

Maintainers

Besides regular contributors, we're in dire need of having more people joining the maintainer team. You would be granted a right to contribute to the project directly without prior approval, and will need to exercise it appropriately, both when making your own contributions and when reviewing open issues and pull requests that you will be able to merge into the main branch once you think they're good enough.

On top of it, some time ago I started out a competitive programming library with automatic verification via Library Checker as an auxiliary project to CP-Algorithms. Ideally, I would like to let more people join it in the future, and also facilitate its integration into the main website and its articles somehow. Having another motivated maintainer to discuss it and work on it together would be fantastic!

Please reach out to me or Jakob if you're interested, and let us know of any of your prior experience in technical writing, computer science and competitive programming. We will be happy to expand our team!

Hello Codeforces!


We are delighted to invite you to participate in Yandex Cup 2024!
Yandex Cup is a championship in six different tracks:

• Algorithm❤️
• Backend
• Analytics
• Mobile development (iOS and Android tracks)
• Frontend
• Machine Learning (Self-Driving Cars and Music information retrieval tracks)

This year, as a pilot project, we are inviting schoolchildren (so far only from Russia) to participate in the Algorithm and Analytics tracks.


The championship consists of three stages.

Schedule

The stages and dates are different for Machine Learning and Mobile Development. More details about the terms and conditions can be found on the track's pages.

Qualification is a contest with a virtual start. You can write a context during the week from 14 to 20 October. The duration depends on the selected track. After the qualification stage we will publish the criteria for the semifinal.

Semifinal will be held on 2 November. The start of the contests is at 12:00 (GMT+3). Duration depends on the selected track. The top 20 semi-finalists in each track and the top 10 students in the tracks Algorithm and Analytics will qualify for the finals

The final of the competition will be held in Tashkent Uzbekistan on 2-6 December. All expenses related to travel and accommodation of the finalists will be covered by us.

This year, we have also increased the prize fund, which amounts to 12.5 million rubles

See you at the Yandex Cup!

Halo, Codeforces! Ape kabar kitak? Nyi deu sit bau maang? 😍 😍

COMPFEST 16 is happy to invite you to participate in Codeforces Round 977 (Div. 2, based on COMPFEST 16 - Final Round) on Oct/06/2024 09:05 (Moscow time). The round will be rated. You will be given 2 hours to solve 5 problems, 2 of them will have subtasks.

Note the unusual time of the round.

The problems are written by ArvinCiu, CyberSleeper, athin, and joelgun14.

We would like to thank:

• KAN for helping to host the round;
• errorgorn for the based coordination;
• gansixeneh, CyberSleeper, joelgun14, and icebear30 for helping with the problem preparation;
• gansixeneh again for the sigma helps;
• Alexdat2000 for writing the Russian translations;
• A_G, Dominater069, efishel, Error_Yuan, fishy15, Sk0rlupka, Umi and valeriu for testing the contest and providing us very useful feedback;
• Universitas Indonesia, all the local committees, administrators, and managers of the whole COMPFEST event;
• MikeMirzayanov for the amazing Codeforces and Polygon platform!

COMPFEST itself is an annual event hosted by Universitas Indonesia. It is the largest student-run IT event in Indonesia and competitive programming contest is one of the competitions hosted.

We hope you will enjoy and have fun in the contest. Muga-muga beja lan isa entuk biji apik!! 💪💪🔥🔥

Edit 1: Score distribution is $$$500 - 750 - (750+1000) - 2500 - (1750 + 750 + 1000)$$$

Edit 2:

Congratulations to the winners!

Div.2 :

1. Xun_Xiaoyao

2. Traumatize

3. TurtleZW

4. wullaaa

5. cpy0512

Div.1 + Div.2:

1. ecnerwala

2. tourist

3. ksun48

4. StarSilk

5. kotatsugame

Congratulations also to the first solvers!

• A: _MASSIMO_

• B: iridescent24k

• C1: ksun48

• C2: 2mato_pota2

• D: ecnerwala

• E1: vlt0824

• E2: nifeshe

• E3: xuanxuan001

On behalf of the COMPFEST committees, we are glad that our Codeforces Round ran quite smoothly and we hope that you all enjoyed our problems. See you next year! 😍 😍

Edit 3: The editorial is up!

Greetings Codeforces!

First things first, we would like to thank everyone who participated in the previous nine Kotlin Heroes competitions: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5: ICPC Round, Episode 6, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9, and Episode 10.

Kotlin Heroes is a great way to play around with Kotlin’s features, learn something new, and practice using the language by solving fun problems. It is great for programmers of any level!

We invite you to join the practice round, where you can improve your algorithmic problem-solving skills and complete training problems. In this round, all the solutions are open and you can request hints if you’re stuck.

Watch tourist and ecnerwala tackle the Kotlin Heroes practice round challenges at the ICPC World Finals in Astana.

Here are some things you can do to help you refresh your knowledge of Kotlin and learn more about competitive programming while you practice:

• Review our Kotlin solutions for the Advent of Code algorithmic puzzles.
• Read our competitive programming tutorial.
• Watch the videos from our Kotlin in Competitive Programming YouTube playlist.
• Look at the problems from the previous practice rounds.

On September 30, 2024, the real challenge begins! Kotlin Heroes: Episode 11 will last 2 hours 30 minutes and will feature a set of problems ranging from simple ones, which are designed to be solvable by anyone, to some really tricky ones for seasoned competitive programmers.

Note that the usage of AI-based tools during the main contest is strictly limited. To find out the guidelines for proper AI use, what is allowed and what is prohibited, please read the post "Rule Restricting the use of AI". Improper use of AI tools during the main contest may result in disqualification.

Using automatic translation tools (including but not limited to neural networks and AI) to convert code written in other programming languages to Kotlin goes against the spirit of the competition, so it is also strictly prohibited.

Prizes:

The top three winners will receive cash prizes of $512, $256, and $128 (or rewards of equivalent value), respectively. The top 50 participants will win a Kotlin Heroes T-shirt and an exclusive Kotlin sticker, and all competitors who solve at least one problem will be entered into a raffle for one of 50 Kotlin Heroes T-shirts.

Please note that we are not able to ship prizes to any country, state, province, or territory subject to comprehensive OFAC sanctions, including Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, or the Crimea, Donetsk, or Luhansk regions. To see the list of sanctioned countries and regions, please visit this page.

Best of luck to everyone!

Hello Codeforces!

We are thrilled to invite you to participate in Codeforces Round 976 (Div. 2) and Divide By Zero 9.0, hosted as Divide By Zero 9.0 by The Programming Club, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore). The contest will take place on Sep/29/2024 18:35 (Moscow time).

UPD: The contest time has been updated to Sep/29/2024 18:35 (Moscow time), which differs from the previously announced schedule. Please take note of this unusual timing and adjust your plans accordingly.

You will have 2 hours to solve 6 exciting problems.

The round will be rated for participants with a rating below 2100.

Problem Setters:

The problems for this round have been authored by nishkarsh and me.

Acknowledgements:

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to:

• irkstepanov and KAN for the wonderful coordination and support in preparing the contest.

• Golovanov399, wyrqwq, irkstepanov, Error_Yuan, rolandpetrean, magga, mwen, MrDelrus, letsolum, chromate00, and AnanasClassic for their valuable feedback and testing.

• Special thanks to MikeMirzayanov for the amazing Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

Score Distribution (Div. 2):

• 500 — 750 — 1250 — 1500 — 2000 — 2750

We hope you enjoy the problem set and have a great time solving!

Good luck to all participants!

Update: The editorial is here

Ciao, Codeforces! We're glad to invite you to take part in Codeforces Round 975 (Div. 1) and Codeforces Round 975 (Div. 2), which will start on 27.09.2024 16:35 (Московское время). You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours and 30 minutes to solve them in both divisions. Some problems will be divided into subtasks.

UPD: the time has been changed to 27.09.2024 16:35 (Московское время), which is different from the time announced before. Please note the unusual starting time.

This round is based on Italian Olympiad in Informatics (OII) 2024.

The problems were authored by lorenzoferrari, wksni and me.

We would like to thank

• KAN for his nutella coordination;
• Alexdat2000 for Russian translation;
• bortoz, collodel, dp_1, franfill, franv, harniver, jamesbamber, Kaey, veluca93, Virv for helping with both this contest and the onsite contest preparation;
• bortoz for pictures in the statements;
• Flamire for VIP testing;
• Um_nik, EgorUlin, konsteros, Mihail_Podyachih, bugrova, Ludissey, Nonoze, Sofapuden, Temmie, jeroenodb for testing;
• MikeMirzayanov for creating Codeforces and Polygon.

Score distribution:

• Div. 1: $$$500 - 750 - 750 - 1500 - (2250 + 750) - (1500 + 1500 + 1500)$$$
• Div. 2: $$$500 - 1000 - 1750 - 2000 - 2000 - 3000$$$

We hope you'll like the problemset!

Update 1: the editorial is here.

Update 2: congratulations to the winners!

TL;DR: Опубликуйте интересный блог на Codeforces до 15 октября и выиграйте $800+1!

Этот блог вдохновлен месяцем блогов на Codeforces от peltorator.

Привет всем! Прошлый конкурс помог мне тогда, когда я больше всего в этом нуждался. Так что теперь я хочу отплатить сообществу обратно — организовать Codeforces Month Of Blog Posts еще раз!

Вступление

Мое мнение о блогах совпадает с мнением peltorator'а — я большой фанат Codeforces, он почти что заменяет мне социальные сети, а блоги — одна из лучших его частей! Многие люди ждут лучшего времени для публикации своих блогов, откладывают его на потом — теперь это время пришло!

Правила и сроки

Правила просты:

1. Опубликуйте что-нибудь на Codeforces (с переводом на английский язык) не ранее 10 сентября (00:02 UTC) 2024 года. Мы ищем новые идеи / новые взгляды на темы, которые мы ещё не видели — всё на ваше усмотрение. Это может быть даже что-то вроде этого комментария! — Думаю, вы поняли идею: напишите что-нибудь креативное. Если подумать, то одним из лучших постов прошлого конкурса был, наверное, его анонс :D

2. Отправьте мне личное сообщение до 15 октября (00:02 UTC) 2024 года со ссылкой на ваш пост на Codeforces. Я буду благодарен, если вы также включите в начало своего поста пояснение в одно предложение, объясняющее, что вы участвуете в даном конкурсе, чтобы больше людей могли узнать об этом и поучаствовать.

Призы!

Победитель получит денежный приз — 350+1 долларов! Участник, занявший второе место, получит 250 долларов! Третье место получит 150 долларов! Четвертое получит 50 долларав :)

Если вы готовы увеличить бюджет для победителей — также пишите мне в личные сообщения :D

Процесс выбора победителя пока не определен, я могу придумать два варианта: выбрать победителя самостоятельно, либо выиграет блог, набравший наибольшее количество лайков. Пишите свое мнение в комментариях

Аутро

Поехали! Надеюсь, будет хотя бы один отличный блог, так что моя инициатива не останется бесполезной :D

801$ — это не маленькая сумма, поэтому я верю в вас, сделайте что-то новое, сделайте что-то, что нужно людям!

Может быть, стоит проводить подобные конкурсы ежегодно? Что-то вроде «Codeforces Year of Blog Posts»? Пишите ваши идеи в разделе комментариев!

P.S: Загляните в LI2 Contests — бесплатный курс по информатике!

UPD1: Мой хороший друг решил дать дополнительные $200 для победителя! Он настоял на том, чтобы остаться анонимным D:

UPD2: Остался один месяц! Кроме того, давайте поблагодарим i_love_penguins за приз в $100 за третье место.

UPD3: Осталось меньше месяца! Кроме того, давайте поблагодарим orz за увеличение призового фонда на $200, которое мы решили равномерно распределить — теперь и четвертое место получит приз!.