Happy Holidays to the Codeforces community! I have a new contest to share with you all.↵
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Abakoda 2021 was an initiative by NOI.PH (the Philippines' olympiad) to run a series of beginner-friendly weekly contests, which ultimately culminated in a long contest. Contestants were given a little under 10 days to solve 15 problems. We have decided to share these problems with the general Codeforces community. We hope you find them useful and interesting!↵
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The contest link is here: https://codeforces.net/gym/103496 **EDIT:** Problems are now live! Enjoy :D↵
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The problems will be available starting 6:00 pm this Dec 27 (UTC+8), and will remain "live" in the Gym until 11:59 pm on Jan 5 (again, UTC+8). Most of the problems in the contest are standard, since the contest is targeted at beginners, but I think even experienced participants will find some of the problems interesting. As long-format, I think this contest would be educational for people up to Green or Cyan level. More experienced contestants could even treat these 15 problems as an easy ICPC set. I would even guess that an Orange could solo 93% to 100% of the problems within a 5 hour period.↵
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Regardless, I think the problems should be relatively interesting, and I'm quite proud of my work, so please check it out :D It will be fun! I also guaranteed that all these problems are comfortably solvable using Python (though you might need to submit to PyPy or still use fast I/O for some of them). Furthermore, each problem contains custom art that I commissioned from a close friend of mine, so make sure to read all the problems to see them all!↵
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The problem stories feature Alice, Bob, and Cindy, the same characters from my [Dagitab 2021](https://codeforces.net/contests/102911) long contest last year. Except now I'm not a broke college student, so I was able to afford art for all three of them this time!↵
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Thank you to the wonderful testers of these problems:↵
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- [user:spacewalker,2021-12-27]↵
- [user:Something_hacker,2021-12-27]↵
- [user:verngutz,2021-12-27]↵
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Thanks also to [user:kevinsogo,2021-01-01] whose KompGen library was invaluable in creating the test data for all these problems. And of course, thanks to [user:MikeMirzayanov,2021-01-01] for Codeforces and the Polygon platform.↵
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We hope you enjoy the Abakoda 2021 Long Contest!
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Abakoda 2021 was an initiative by NOI.PH (the Philippines' olympiad) to run a series of beginner-friendly weekly contests, which ultimately culminated in a long contest. Contestants were given a little under 10 days to solve 15 problems. We have decided to share these problems with the general Codeforces community. We hope you find them useful and interesting!↵
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The contest link is here: https://codeforces.net/gym/103496 **EDIT:** Problems are now live! Enjoy :D↵
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The problems will be available starting 6:00 pm this Dec 27 (UTC+8), and will remain "live" in the Gym until 11:59 pm on Jan 5 (again, UTC+8). Most of the problems in the contest are standard, since the contest is targeted at beginners, but I think even experienced participants will find some of the problems interesting. As long-format, I think this contest would be educational for people up to Green or Cyan level. More experienced contestants could even treat these 15 problems as an easy ICPC set. I would even guess that an Orange could solo 93% to 100% of the problems within a 5 hour period.↵
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Regardless, I think the problems should be relatively interesting, and I'm quite proud of my work, so please check it out :D It will be fun! I also guaranteed that all these problems are comfortably solvable using Python (though you might need to submit to PyPy or still use fast I/O for some of them). Furthermore, each problem contains custom art that I commissioned from a close friend of mine, so make sure to read all the problems to see them all!↵
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The problem stories feature Alice, Bob, and Cindy, the same characters from my [Dagitab 2021](https://codeforces.net/contests/102911) long contest last year. Except now I'm not a broke college student, so I was able to afford art for all three of them this time!↵
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Thank you to the wonderful testers of these problems:↵
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- [user:spacewalker,2021-12-27]↵
- [user:Something_hacker,2021-12-27]↵
- [user:verngutz,2021-12-27]↵
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Thanks also to [user:kevinsogo,2021-01-01] whose KompGen library was invaluable in creating the test data for all these problems. And of course, thanks to [user:MikeMirzayanov,2021-01-01] for Codeforces and the Polygon platform.↵
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We hope you enjoy the Abakoda 2021 Long Contest!
