Hello Codeforces Community!

CodeChef invites you to participate in CodeChef January Long Challenge at http://www.codechef.com/JAN16. As always, the long contests will start on first Friday of every month and last for 10 days. This ensures that two weekends are covered.

Time: 1st January 2016 to 11th January 2016. Check your timezone.

Details: https://www.codechef.com/JAN16

Registration: Just need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. For all those, who are interested, are requested to register in order to participate.

• Problem Setters: Cenadar (Maksym Bevza), xlk (Ke Bi), Witalia (Vitalii Kozhukhivskyi), abhra73 (Abhra Dasgupta), Antoniuk (Vasya Antoniuk), Berezin (Dmytro Berezin), amitp08 (Amit Pandey), Sereja (Sergey Nagin), PraveenDhinwa (Praveen Dhinwa) and shef_2318 (Pavel Sheftelevich)

• Problem Testers: mgch (Misha Chorniy), Antoniuk (Vasya Antoniuk)

• Contest Admin & Editorialist: PraveenDhinwa (Praveen Dhinwa)

• Editorialist: pushkarmishra (Pushkar Mishra)

• Russian Translator: CherryTree (Sergey Kulik)

• Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI

• Mandarin Translator: gediiiiiii (Gedi Zheng)

• Language Verifier: RahulArora (Rahul Arora)

Prizes:

For Indians:

1st prize: INR 12000

2nd prize: INR 8000

For Rest of the world:

1st prize: $400

2nd prize: $300

In addition to the above prizes. Top 10 global, Top 20 Indian, Top 5 school (Indian), Top 5 school (Global), Top 3 challenge problem solvers Indian and Global (apart from the winners) get cool CodeChef goodies.

As far as I know JAN16 will be first programming competition in 2016, don't miss it! I hope that everyone who will take part be able to solve all problems :)

Good Luck!

Happy New Year!