Congratulations to all those who have cleared the SnackDown Pre-Elimination Rounds and advanced to the SnackDown Elimination! An intense competition is about to begin where only the top 52 teams will move on to the SnackDown Onsite Finale.

The Elimination Round will have an ACM ICPC style rank list. As mentioned above, 52 teams (Top 25 Global + Top 25 Indian + Best Girl’s team Global + Indian School team) will be invited to the onsite finals. While the top 32 teams (15 each Global & Indian + Best Girl’s team + Best Indian School team) will get an all expense paid trip to Mumbai, India, the remaining 20 teams will be provided with accommodation and local travel in India. However, if any of these 20 teams win the competition, their travel fair will be reimbursed as well. It’s a win-win situation.

Also, top 300 teams will be getting SnackDown 2016 merchandise from CodeChef.

The CodeChef SnackDown 2016 Elimination Round begins at 19:30 HRS IST, 19th June.

The problems have been set and tested by kevinsogo (Kevin Charles Atienza), Antoniuk (Vasya Antoniuk), CherryTree (Sergey Kulik), kingofnumbers (Hasan Jaddouh), PraveenDhinwa (Praveen Dhinwa) and the translations are written by huzecong (Hu Zecong) for Mandarin , VNOI Team for Vietnamese , CherryTree (Sergey Kulik) and Antoniuk (Vasya Antoniuk) for Russian, with PraveenDhinwa (Praveen Dhinwa) as contest admin and grammar verifier. I hope you will enjoy solving the problems. Please feel free to give your feedback about the problems in comments below.

Hope to see an exciting competition in the SnackDown Elimination!