Hello from Bangalore, India! We have 38 teams participating this year from across the globe for Snackdown's Onsite Finals.

I'll be giving live updates here. If you have any questions related to the contest, please ask them in the comments.

The mirror contest has begun. You can see the problems on the mirror contest page — https://www.codechef.com/SNFL19MR/

Public Ranklist — https://www.codechef.com/public/rankings/SNCKFL19

Participating teams — https://www.codechef.com/snackdown/2019/finalists

10:30am — Contest has begun.

10:39am — LHiC from team login228 gets the first accepted submission of the contest on problem CATS.

Several other teams have submitted a solution for the same problem within the next minute.

10:52am — login228 solve their second problem of the contest — MTRXOP They currently lead the ranklist.

10:55am — 24 teams have solved at least one problem.

10:56am — Team havkapapstvo (Egor and PavelKunyavskiy) solve the 3rd distinct problem of the contest (MAGARR), their team's 2nd solved problem.

11:00am — Team End Time (dotorya and zigui) solve their 2nd problem and lead the ranklist.

11:05am — moofest (xiaowuc1 and desert97) solve CIRCBIN.

11:10am — 9 teams have solved 2 problems so far. Team pastry (tourist and qwerty787788) are currently at rank 3.

11:15am — We now have 4 distinct problems solved in the contest.

11:22am — All school teams have solved 1 problem so far. Antipr00 (AsleepAdhyyan and RestingRajarshi) lead on the basis of time penalty.

11:27am — pastry solve their 3rd problem (XYPRESQ) and lead the ranklist. havkapapstvo solve their 3rd as well. They are now at rank 2 with a time penalty difference of 7 minutes.

11:35am — pastry solve their 4th problem — MAGARR

11:40am — contribution (Radewoosh and Swistakk) and osass (jiry_2 and jqdai0815) solve the 6th distinct problem of the contest — RAFFLE

login228 (LHiC) solves RAFFLE as well and moves to Rank 2.

A few glimpses from the arena: