Hello CodeForces community,

SnackDown 2017 Pre-Elimination Rounds have finally concluded. We saw over 12K teams joining us for the Pre-Elimination Rounds, out of which 3403 teams (who were in top 1000 ranks of each of the Pre-Elimination Rounds) have been qualified for the Elimination Round.

Now, while we prepare to step into the Elimination Round, I would like to introduce the problem setting panel for the contest.

Problem setters: arjunarul (Arjun Arul), kingofnumbers (Hasan Jaddouh),Pepe.Chess (Hussain Kara Fallah), nssprogrammer (Snighda Chandan), Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinkov), mgch (Misha Chorniy), fudail225 (Fudail Hasan)

Problem testers: kingofnumbers (Hasan Jaddouh), mgch (Misha Chorniy), Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinkov), Alex_2oo8 (Alexey Zayakin)

Translators: Mandarin : huzecong (Hu Zecong), Russian : CherryTree (Sergey Kulik), Vietnamese : VNOI team.

Contest Admin: PraveenDhinwa (Praveen Dhinwa)

I thank each and everyone of them for their contribution in preparing the problem set.

Given below are the details of the contest

• Start Time: Saturday, 3rd June 2017, 1930 hrs IST. (Indian Standard Time +5:30 GMT). Check your timezone here.
• Duration:: 5 hrs
• Contest link: https://www.codechef.com/SNCKEL17

Additionally, we are also conducting a replay round of the Elimination Round for the rest of the community. It will take place at https://www.codechef.com/SNEL17RP and the top three winners of the contest will win cool SnackDown 2017 t-shirts. I would take this opportunity to invite the entire community to come and join us for the Replay of SnackDown 2017 Elimination Round.

Details of the SnackDown 2017 Elimination Round Replay:

• Contest link: https://www.codechef.com/SNEL17RP
• Start Date & time: Sunday, 4th June 2017, 2100 hrs IST. (Indian Standard Time +5:30 GMT) Check your timezone here.
• Duration: 5 hrs

Accepted Languages: https://www.codechef.com/wiki/list-compilers

Note: The Elimination Round will follow ACM ICPC style ranklist.

We hope you will enjoy the problems and we welcome your feedback in the comments below.

Good Luck!