Hii Codeforces!

We are pleased to invite you all to CodeChef's Starters 30, aka International Coding Marathon, in collaboration with Technex '22, IIT-BHU.

ICM is the flagship CP event of Byte the Bits, the set of programming events organized under Technex, the annual techno-management fest of the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. It is scheduled for 8PM IST (in about 4 hours from now) on the CodeChef platform.

Here is the contest link: CodeChef Starters 30

The contest is rated for Divisions 2 through 4. However, it is on the challenging side and has problems that will be interesting for Division 1 participants too (Prove your solutions!).

I'd like to thank

• The problem setters: Anshu CoderAnshu Garg, Jatin rivalq Garg, Kushagra koderkushy Goel, Eshaan XORring-Samurai Gupta, Pranav pd_codes Dev, Piyush piyush_pransukhka Pransukhka, Kartik Gokussjz Malik, Saritesh saritesh Tiwari, Thakur pertifiedcobra Abhishek, Ashish Ashishgup Gupta and Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta.
• The testers: Abhinav abhinavvv306 Sharma, Aryan aryanc403 Choudhary.
• the Statement verifier: Kanhaiya notsoloud1 Mohan.
• the editorialists: Prakhar prako_87 Kochar, Lavish lavish315 Gupta.
• the contest admins: Ashish Ashishgup Gupta and Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta.
• You, the participants!

Cash prizes for the fast and precise!

• Global rank 1: 10'000 INR
• Global rank 2: 6'000 INR
• Global rank 3: 4'000 INR

Fill out this form to avail them.

Some of our previous rounds:

• ICM Technex 2019
• ICM technex 2020
• ICM Technex 2021

The video editorials of the problems will be available on Codechef's YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Good luck. Let's give the CC servers some numbers to crunch!