Greetings Codeforces Community!

Brace yourself because Long Challenge contest of the month is HERE! Expect nothing short of a thoroughly thrilling 10-day code-cation; featuring exciting problems, amazing competition and lastly, a chance to level up your rating.

Moreover, the Long Challenge is particularly crafted to help you hone your coding skills, while competing amongst the best of the best. Top 20 participants from each college/university will win scholarships for CodeChef Certification exam. Visit the contest page to know more.

In addition, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in the CodeChef's contests, you can share them with our admins here: https://www.codechef.com/problemsetting/new-ideas

Do join your fellow programmers and actively participate in this exciting contest. Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Newaj_69 (Md. Shafiq Newaj Shovo), Soul_Full_Of_Thunder (Yulian Yarema), sayantan_das24 (Sayantan Das), YouG22 (Utkarsh Garg), kartik_24 (Kartik Singhal), mraron (Noszály Áron), babin (Claudiu Babin), VladProg (Vlad Zavodnik), Danylo99 (Danylo Mocherniuk), Lewin (Lewin Gan), Morphy (Alei Reyes)
• Admin: Alex_2oo8 (Alexey Zayakin)
• Editorialist: vijju123 (Abhishek Pandey)
• Statement Verifier: Xellos (Jakub Safin)
• Russian Translator: Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinikov)
• Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI
• Bengali Translator: solaimanope (Mohammad Solaiman)
• Hindi Translator: Akash Shrivastava
• Mandarin Translator: gediiiiiii (Gedi Zheng)

Contest Details:

• Start Date & Time: 2nd August 2019 (1500 hrs) to 12th August 2019 (1500 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone.
• Contest link: https://bit.ly/2LFPyxM
• Registration: You just need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. For all those who are interested and do not have a CodeChef handle, are requested to register in order to participate.
• Prizes: Top 20 performers in Indian category and top 10 performers in Global category will get CodeChef laddus, with which the winners can claim cool CodeChef goodies. First to solve each problem except challenge — 100 laddus. Know more here: https://goodies.codechef.com/

(For those who have not yet got their previous winning, please send an email to [email protected])

Good Luck! Hope to see you participating! Happy Programming!