Update: The contest is delayed by 15 minutes due to prior issues with the registration system in order to make sure everyone is correctly registered. Please double check that you are registered.

Hello Codeforces,

We are very glad to invite you to participate in CodeTON Round 7 (Div. 1 + Div. 2, Rated, Prizes!), which will start on 25.11.2023 17:50 (Московское время). You will be given 8 problems and 2.5 hours to solve them. The round will be rated for everyone.

All the problems are written and prepared by lanhf, Mike4235, thenymphsofdelphi, xuanquang1999 and me.

We would like to give our sincere thanks to:

• errorgorn for his wonderful coordination!
• Alexdat2000 for translating problem statements.
• Um_nik and conqueror_of_tourist for Legendary Grandmaster testing.
• jeroenodb, Kuroni, dario2994 and dreamoon_love_AA for International Grandmaster testing.
• generic_placeholder_name, MofK, minhcool, dvdg6566 and magnus.hegdahl for Grandmaster testing.
• dantoh for International Master testing.
• tyr0Whiz, 18o3, beepbeepsheep, jamessngg, zengminghao, oolimry, iLoveIOI, pavement and jamielim for Master testing.
• Kofta, debugging_since_epoch, Nahian9696, bensonlzl and Myrcella for Candidate Master testing.
• ABalobanov, AVdovin, Blagoj, teruel, xink and Antonn_114 for Expert testing.
• BuzzyBeez, Maikyou, Yoo_Jeongyeon, Sunnyyyy and SYY for Specialist testing.
• NVGU for Pupil testing.
• vszda, tibinyte and hminh for Newbie testing.
• MikeMirzayanov for the great codeforces and polygon platform.
• You for participating in the round.

The score distribution is $$$500-1000-1500-2000-2250-2750-3250-(4000+1000)$$$.

Hope everyone can enjoy the round!

And here is the information from our title sponsor:

Hello, Codeforces!

We, the TON Foundation team, are pleased to support CodeTON Round 7.

The Open Network (TON) is a fully decentralized layer-1 blockchain designed to onboard billions of users to Web3.

Since July 2022, we have been supporting Codeforces as a title sponsor. This round is another way for us to contribute to the development of the community.

The winners of CodeTON Round 7 will receive valuable prizes.

The first 1,023 participants will receive prizes in TON cryptocurrency:

• 1st place: 1,024 TON
• 2–3 places: 512 TON each
• 4–7 places: 256 TON each
• 8–15 places: 128 TON each
• …
• 512–1,023 places: 2 TON each

We wish you good luck at CodeTON Round 7 and hope you enjoy the contest!