I apologize to the participants of the round. It happened that I accidentally had run improper script and it rebooted the judging machines. It is very insulting, because most problems were proposed by me and I hoped to host an interesting competition for you. A lot of effort was spent on preparation. Apparently, the mistake of just such a human character happened for the first time. I really hope not to repeat it in the future.

MikeMirzayanov

Want problems? We have some!

Codeforces Round 434 will start on September 17 (Sunday), 13:05 (UTC). It will be based on Technocup 2018 Elimination Round 1. So, if you are a Russian-speaking high-school student, please take part in the Technocup 2018.

Many thanks to KAN, vovuh, Neon, ifsmirnov, irkstepanov and WHITE2302 for their help in round preparation. Some problem ideas are mine.

I hope you will like problems. There will be 6 problems in div. 2 and 5 problems in div. 1.

Wish you good luck and bugless code.

Hello, Codeforces!

I am pleased to announce the 2nd Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC, which will be hosted by our partner Harbour.Space University together with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC, ITMO University, Moscow Physics and Technology University, Saint Petersburg State University and Codeforces!

The boot camp will be held from September 27th to October 5th in Barcelona. This time it will be at the beautiful and technologically mind-bending Media-TIC building — the Smart Building of Tomorrow.

Media-TIC building — the Smart Building of Tomorrow

The world's greatest coaches will be attending: Andrew andrewzta Stankevich, Michael Endagorion Tikhomirov, Gleb GlebsHP Evstropov, Artem VArtem Vasilyev and other world renowned Russian coaches. As a coach, I will come too. The Chief Judge of the camp is Oleg snarknews Khristenko. Seriously, it will be a unique opportunity for teams around the world to learn from such well-known and successful coaches in the ACM-ICPC world.

Having visited the first Hello Barcelona programming Bootcamp in February, I left the event feeling inspired from the overall atmosphere. I am sure that all teams received an immense amount of knowledge and skills. As one of the coaches, all of the flattering reviews about the camp from the participants were pleasant for me to hear. I am very glad that these camps are becoming regular. Harbour.Space University and Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC have done a job worthy of admiration!

The Bootcamp will be split in two divisions:

• Division A. Designed to prepare students to excel and win medals in the next ACM-ICPC World Finals.

• Division B. Designed to help teams prepare for the next season of ACM-ICPC Regionals and international competitions. This is an appropriate introduction for teams and students new to the world of ACM ICPC and competitive programming competitions in general. The Division B curriculum features thematic lectures and contests.

The participation fee is unchanged: €1270 per person (cultural program, accommodation and half-board meals included).

Single participants and teams must register by July 1st, 2017 to receive the 15% off-Early Bird Discount, or the 20% off-Loyalty Discount, which is awarded to teams that participated in previous Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC boot camps.

You can ask any questions by email: hello@harbour.space

Hope to meet you on the Bootcamp, Mike Mirzayanov

In order to experience the atmosphere of the event, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the photos and videos from the 1st Hello Barcelona programming Bootcamp in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC.

ACM-ICPC World Finals 2017 will begin on May 24, 2017 at 15:00 (UTC). This event is the main event of the year in the world of sports programming!

This year ICPC Regional participation included 46,381 of the finest students and faculty in computing disciplines from 2,948 universities in 103 countries on six continents. A record 50,145 students and 5,073 coaches competed in ICPC and ICPC-assisted competitions this year, setting new records in participation.

Codeforces wishes the teams to show a vivid and interesting contest contest. We wish to find beautiful solutions, write without bugs and enjoy many accepted problems!

Links:

• Current results
• Official website of the championship
• ICPC News (photo, video about the Finals)
• ICPC Live (broadcast and not only)

Hello, Codeforces!

The ACM-ICPC World Finals 2017 event is running now. Tomorrow will be the main contest. During these days the directorate of ACM-ICPC shared some news.

• Let me remind you that this season (2016-2017) is last, when the general sponsor of the championship is IBM. For 20 years, IBM has supported ACM-ICPC, investing millions of dollars annually. Thank you, IBM! At the moment, the model is actively being worked out, when there will be not one general sponsor, but there will be a fund in which several companies will participate. At the opening ceremony the Sport Programming Foundation was mentioned. I believe this Foundation will be the main one for the future seasons of the championship. However, these are not yet close plans.

  It was announced that the next three years the general sponsor of ACM-ICPC will be JetBrains! This is amazing news. Particularly pleased that this is actually a Russian company, and its executive director Maxim Shafirov coached the team of St. Petersburg State University, which became the world champion in 2000! I'm sure that the wonderful development environment from JetBrains in the future finals of the championship will await us as a pleasant bonus.

• There is a reform of the qualifying stages of the championship. For example, now Rissian+ regional contest (NEERC) is not part of the European Regionals, but is a separate league of the Northern Eurasia. In general, eight leagues (read, super-regions) were singled out: Europe, Northern Eurasia, North America, Latin and South America, two leagues in Asia, Africa and probably Australia and Oceania. It is planned that each league will have its own separate finals with medals and the top 12 teams from each league will receive a ticket to the World Finals. While these are still distant plans, but the first steps have already been taken. Discusses its quota on the number of participations in the league finals (3 times).

• Unfortunately, this year a significant part of the teams did not receive a visa at all (5 teams) and a dozen more could not arrive completely because of the visa problems of one of the participants. Saratov State University, apparently, is among them. It was announced the decision to invite to the next Wold Finals without any selections and quota accounting for 5 teams that could not come this year. In addition, it is proposed to give a +1 year to participate (without taking into account any other requirements) to all teams that could not arrive completely.

• The next Finals will be held in Beijing, and a year later — in Kochi (India).

Such news.

Hello!

I'm happy to visit Rapid City and meet so many bright contestants here!

I have Codeforces laptop stickers with me and I'll be glad to give them as small gifts to participants of the World Finals. You can find me (I do not have many stickers, be quick) to get gifts. My friend collects coins, so I'll be glad to receive a coin from your country as a souvenir.

See you. And good luck on the contest!

Mike

UPD Still have few stickers. You have a chance!

Hello, Codeforces!

I'd like to invite you to join in Playrix Codescapes Cup for the both divisions that will be held on May 11 at 18:35 MSK. The round is rated and open for everyone.

Problems are prepared by KAN, Al.Cash, MikeMirzayanov and fcspartakm. Huge thanks to Playrix company for making this round possible. Hope you enjoy the round!

Playrix is one of the leading mobile games development companies in the world. Its distributed team consists of 450 professionals from around the world. The company has released three successful mobile free-to-play games – Township, Fishdom and Gardenscapes. All of the projects have consistently been among the Top 50 Grossing Apps for iOS and Google Play since their release.In 2016, Facebook named Gardenscapes game of the year.

Company is looking for Russian-speaking C++ developers.

Prizes from the Playrix company:

• Top 1: iPadPro 9,7 + PowerBank + T-shirt with logo
• Top 2-5: PowerBank + T-shirt with logo
• Top 6-50: T-shirt with logo
• (New!) Random 5 participants (not from top-50, submitted at least once): T-shirt with logo

Congratulations to the winners!

1. tourist
2. LHiC
3. subscriber
4. W4yneb0t
5. enot110

The problem analysis is published.

Hello!

Are you missing something new? I have something to please you.

Regularly I host some events — Olympiads, onsites, and eventually, examinations and tests for students. On the one hand, Codeforces already offers a unique functionality — groups, the integration with Polygon, the possibility of choosing tasks from the archive and so on. But it doesn’t enough!

Domains for groups

Here is an example of such a group. It is open for all — join it and look: http://example.contest.codeforces.com

Domain

Now when you are editing a group, you can specify its subdomain (from 3 to 20 alphanumeric characters, starts with a letter). When you specify the domain, the group will be accessible by a link http://yourgroupdomain.contest.codeforces.com. According to this link, the following is correct:

• Nothing extra will be displayed — the site contains only the information about competitions and blogs of your group and nothing else.
• All you need to display — is an HTTP access to 77.234.215.194. If you host the official contest, important coaching or examination — block all the rest of the Internet, except for this IP-address.
• Today such groups can only contain private competitions and trainings. For example, you can make your mashup and set it up as you need. Maybe, later we will make something with this restriction, but for now — it is like this.

Permitted subnets for the domain

To be sure that extra people will not click on your link http://yourgroupdomain.contest.codeforces.com, you can block the access to it by IP. Specify the exact IP or subnet address. For example, 188.93.56.35;212.193.32.0/19.

The language of the interface of the domain

Probably, when you host the event, only the English (or only Russian) interface is enough for the participant. Use this setting to select the desired behavior.

Header html

You can change the site header at http://yourgroupdomain.contest.codeforces.com, so that there will be not the familiar logo of Codeforces, but the logo or name of your event. For example, when I host the inter-university Olympiad in Saratov, I set it to <h3>Interuniversity Olympiad on programming 2017 (Saratov)</h3>.

Users of the domain (sidebar)

It is very likely that if you hold an Olympiad or something similar, participants may not have the Codeforces account, the information about participants comes from a separate registration, and you want to see usual names in the interface, such as ‘John Doe, Berliandsky SU, 3 Course’, rather than the participant’s handle.

You can add synthetic users to your group with a domain (using these accounts, you can only log the group through the domain). Use the special function “Users of the domain”. Each line corresponds to one user and must be written in the format: contest ids (separated by commas) | Handle | Password | Name. Here's an example of this setting for the domain example.contest.codeforces.com:

213380 | u01 | 371111 | Petr Korotkevich
213380 | u02 | 627492 | Gennady Soejima
213380 | u03 | 491591 | Makoto Knuth
213380 | u04 | 581711 | Donald Cormen
213380 | u05 | 057259 | Thomas Mitrichev

Yes, you can feel like Peter Korotkevich, log on http://example.contest.codeforces.com, and use the login u01 and the password 371111.

Privacy settings

You have a possibility to set all as you wish. For example, to maximally block the access to the group (only by the domain, do not allow extra users), make the closed’ group, and the policy of registering of its membersonly by invitation`. In this case, only domain users (see the point above) and users invited to the group will be able to access the domain address.

For private contests you can set additional settings:

• Allow practice — whether it is possible to solve problems after the official termination in an informal mode of upsolving.
• Allow virtual participation — whether it is possible to participate virtually after the official termination (or whenever you want, if there is no start time).
• Allow out of competition participation — it is reserved for out of competition participation, while only the users of the domain can be registered as out of competition (for the right users, add the symbol 'o' after the contest id, for example ``213380o | u01 | 371111 | Petr Korotkevich'').
• Allow self-registration — whether it is possible for participant to make a self-registration (if no — register him).
• Allow unregistered users to observe the competition — whether it is possible for the participant of the group who is not registered to a contest enter the contest and see the problems, status, standings, and other details.
• Turn on common status — whether it is possible for participants to see the information about other participants’ submissions, or the information about their own attempts is the only available.
• The duration of freezing and unfreeze time. Be careful during the transfer of the contest — unfreeze time must be changed independently.
• The policy for showing tests. Here are possible options: "do not show at all", "show failed tests of own solutions", "show all tests completely".
• The policy of showing other people's attempts. Here are possible options: "do not show at all", "show to participants who solved the problem," "show to everyone."

April 26, 15:35 (UTC) the second Wild Card Round of VK Cup 2017 will take place.

Participants are invited to achieve progress in solving an unusual problem. VK Cup teams which were advanced to the Round 2 (and didn't advance to the Round 3) will take part in VK Cup 2017 - Wild Card Round 2 officially. In addition, this round will be open to the public for unofficial participation for everybody. Registration will be open for the whole round duration.

The round will be one week long. After the end latest submission (with positive score) of each participant will be judged on system tests.

Good luck!

Hello Codeforces!

I am pleased to announce a long term partnership with Harbour.Space University and Codeforces.

Harbour.Space is supporting the return of a new series of educational rounds on Codeforces!

They will take place with the regularity of ~2 times per month with the first round on 14:35 UTC, 27th of March, 2017.

Education Rounds Rules:

• Scholarships to study Data Science, Computer Science and Cybersecurity in Barcelona for best performing participants, courtesy of Harbour.Space University (more details later!);
• Classic Duration: 1.5 — 2.5 hours;
• The goal is rather to practice and to educate, than to compete;
• Not only problems, but also exercises can be used;
• Useful, even well-known ideas can be reused in order to introduce them to a wide range of participants;
• Unrated (perhaps only for now);
• We will conduct them in the ACM-ICPC mode;
• The results that are obtained after the end of the round, are preliminary;
• After the end of the round will be a 24-hour period of open hacks — any visitor of Codeforces may try to hack any complete solution to a problem of the last round (either from a contest, or from practice), the source code of hacking solution is available (you can copy the text and, for example, stress it);
• All successful hacks from the previous item will be added to the official test set and after as long as 24 hours after the end of the round retesting of all complete solutions will be made;
• Only after the final standings based on improved test data, the results are final;
• Our ability to process such problems are limited, so actually the test suites from the jury are expected to end up incomplete — we are looking forward to your hacks!

In February I had a new and wonderful experience of coaching top teams at the Barcelona ACM-ICPC Bootcamp hosted by Harbour.Space University. I was really impressed by the university, participating teams and fellow coaches from our community such as Endagorion, GlebsHP, Michael, Jacob and snarknews that were also there.

During the bootcamp it became clear to me that Harbour.Space University is a new type of university that’s reinventing the university experience. It is a modern, adaptable and flexible university that is doing amazing things in preparing talented students for careers in Computer Science, Data Science and Cyber Security.

All of their programs are developed in collaboration with the industry and are taught by the top professionals in the respective fields such as Viktor Kantor, Edith Elkind, Alexander Kulikov, Alex Dainiak, Sergey Nikolenko, Deepa Gupta and many others. I am delighted to be joining Harbour.Space fantastic faculty. Together we are developing a series of courses on competitive programming in addition to the bi-annual ACM ICPC Bootcamp that will be hosted by the university in Barcelona.

Hello Codeforces!

I'm pleased to announce the first championship hosted on the Codeforces platform. Welcome 8VC Venture Cup 2017!

8VC will be hosting a coding championship on Codeforces. The championship will begin on January 15 and take place in 2 rounds.

The contest will occur in two rounds:

• The Elimination Round is online and takes place on January 15, 17:05 (UTC). Elimination Round follows regular Codeforces rules and consists of 7-8 problems. For this round, the complexity of the problems will be comparable to a regular Codeforces round. There are no eligibility restrictions to participate in the round.
• The Final Round takes place on January 22, consists of 5-6 problems, and uses regular Codeforces rules. The complexity of the problems is higher than a regular Codeforces round. We will invite the top local finishers in Elimination Round to Woodside, CA to compete in the Final Round. In addition, we will invite the top 200 overall finishers to compete online.

Cool prizes are offered to winners and best participants.

PRIZES

• Overall 1st place — $2000
• Overall 2nd place — $1000
• Overall 3rd-5th places — $500 each
• Overall 1-50th place — t-shirts with 8VC and company logos
• Local Winner — Dinner with Joe Lonsdale (founder of Palantir, Addepar and 8VC) and other Silicon Valley technologists
• Local top finishers — Opportunity to meet with leadership from 8VC portfolio companies

ABOUT 8VC

8VC, which consists of Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir) and his core team from Formation | 8, is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming technology companies. The team's investment portfolio includes companies such as the selected companies below, and a host of other top technology platforms that leverage modern algorithms and data science to power their core business processes.

Hello, Codeforces!

At the request of Zlobober and other users I has implemented notifications on mentions. See the bell on the top of the page?

So far there is only the basic functionality and it is incomplete. But let's start with it for now.

Now notifications appear on mentions in comments only. For now it is impossible to disable it. We do not send anything on your email.

Let's test it together and understand how to move forward with this functionality.

From planned, proposed, discussed:

• Notifications on сhanges in the comments, on blog posts and their edits (if mentioned once, do not send more on edits)
• When you scroll, show a bell on the right side of the page, visually similar to the arrow ``scroll up'' on the left
• Possible we will restrict functionality to avoid abuse from inadequate users
• Special setting the profile
• Move other notifications to the new system (notifications on talks?)
• Shows a typical informational box in the right bottom on new notification

What else will be thinking?

In 2021, some details (including requirements for problem writers) were changed. Read the link for details.

Hello, Codeforces!

New year brings changes to the Codeforces team. As you probably know GlebsHP completed his work as the chief coordinator of Codeforces. Gleb, thanks a lot! You did an excellent job and coordinated a lot of interesting rounds. You're a professional, an interesting person, you have impeccable taste to problems, and you proved to be brilliant and talented writer. Thank you that you were with us! Hope to see your tasks on Codeforces many times again!

Nikolay KAN Kalinin came to Gleb's place. He is also an experienced participant, Nikolay has already held several rounds as a coordinator. KAN seriously engaged in programming contests since he was 12 years old. His major achievements: he won twice All-Russian School Team Olympiad; he won All-Russian School Olympiad (the 1st place!); he has two Gold medals in International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2013, 2014), bronze medal in the ACM-ICPC World Finals 2016 and he took the third place at the RCC 2016. This is the highest level! I am very pleased that Nikolay has joined the Codeforces team. I am confident we will succeed!

And here there is the first innovation of 2017 year. The idea to ​​organize work with proposals has swirled in my head for a long time. It turned out well: KAN visited Saratov to get acquainted with the whole Codeforces team and celebrate the New Year together. And we not only had a good time, but found some time to discuss details how we see our work with writers. Here's what happened.

Writers Requirements

All the functionality described below is only available for experienced contestants and writers of past rounds. There are requirements on the number of rated contests depending on your color (magic does not work here, sorry).

Please do not assume that the requirements are too strict. Our experience shows that it is hard to work with writers who are inexperienced as contestants . If you are a writer/jury member with experience in other competitions/events, please write KAN a private message about your wish to prepare a contest and describe your experience in this area. Be respectful to the coordinator decision, if it prompts you to achieve the general formal requirements prior to review your proposal.

Writers Reward

Preparation of the round is fascinating, but large and demanding work. We have the opportunity to reimburse the effort of the writers according to the following tariff:

An asterisk denotes a bonus, which is issued in case of work in time, without any issues

If a round is a part of a championship, there is an additional bonus, which is discussed separately.

I dream to raise reward to writers. I dream to see the most experienced, the most creative and interesting writers give our users the opportunity to participate in their rounds on Codeforces! Codeforces rounds attract record number of participants from around the world (the next frontier is 10000 registrations!), I personally offered a large number of problems — the chance to give an interest to participants is priceless.

Please send us your problems, spend contest proposals! We can make a platform, we can build a process, we can host championships. But we can't invent and prepare problems on each round.

How to propose a contest (можно читать всё!)

Those who meet the requirements will find the special link “propose a contest/problems” in the personal menu in the right sidebar. Click on it and you will have the opportunity to offer a contest, add problems to it. Read all instructions carefully. Carefully prepare and submit your proposal for a contest and for problems. I think that user interface is simple and intuitive.

Now, you can use only new system to submit proposals. If you have already received an answer from KAN for current proposal, you shouldn't transfer it to the new system. If the response has not been received yet and the proposal in actual, please, use the new system to send the proposal again.

The discussion of your ideas will be in comments mostly. Perhaps at a later stage it will be a possibility to communicate with the coordinator through any messenger.

Please be active, respond to coordinators' questions in time, make the proposed changes quickly. Remember that Codeforces coordinators are very experienced as participants and as reviewers . Their opinion is important, always balanced, and they have the highest priority in any decisions on the problems.

When the work goes to the preparation of problems in Polygon, the pre-read the examples of well-prepared problems, read all articles about using testlib. It is not difficult, but once you understand, you will be able to prepare high-quality problems for any Olympiad!

Conclusion

Later we come up with how to adapt the system for educational rounds (they come back!), for educational problems. With the new system we will get rid of lost proposals and can significantly automate and organize the process of working with them. I am sure that the system will be upgraded in the future and will become more flexible, more comfortable, more functional.

I hope that in 2017 we will host a lot of interesting rounds with your help. I hope you are waiting for them as well as I'm waiting!

MikeMirzayanov

Somehow it turns out that for me, each coming the New Year means more and more. This is an excellent opportunity to take stock, to breathe fresh air and to go through a kind of catharsis. This is a rare opportunity to be with the family, dress up in Santa Claus and just have fun.

Holidays give me a clear criterion that I do the right things. If during the holidays, I begin to think about it, to recall some deferred ideas, eager to implement something new. So I’m doing right things. My things. And now exactly the same as in several recent years: during New Year holidays I write code for Codeforces, trying new technology or simply I’m making minor changes in testlib. It is necessary to me: at this moment are no deadlines, do not press the obligation. Just now, at 3 am, I can not break away from being able to do something new. I would like to take a moment and realize that spun in my head the whole year.

I'm insanely happy to huge number (9144!) of registrations on Good Bye 2016. Your desire to grow, to learn new things, solve problems and invent, improve skills and compete, all this things give me strength and desire to develop the platform.

I wish you not to lose the fire in eyes, when you meet an interesting problem. I wish to continue to find pleasure in each contest or round. I wish to find, to solve more and more complicated and interesting problems. Victories and achievements! Wish you to solve all things which you didn’t solve in 2016!

Happy New Year!

But you, please read this post entirely. It is important to me. It draws the symbolic line to me and the whole Codeforces team. And, of course, below it is written about change handles gift and a colorful masquerade of ranks. Go!

Hello, Codeforces!

I want to test the system before Good Bye 2016, to be sure that everything works as expected.

I invite you to take part in Testing Round 13. It will start soon, on December, 29, 09:05:00 (UTC). It will be unofficial unrated round. The duration is 75 minutes.

Pretests are unusually weak to trigger more hack.

You may expect interactive problems. Hope for hacks for them.

Thank you,
MikeMirzayanov

UPD: Many thanks to all the participants. It seems the system works as expected. We are ready to host Good Bye 2016!

Hello, Codeforces.

Codeforces Round 389 (Div. 2) will start on December 25 (Sunday), 09:05 (UTC). It will be based on Technocup 2017 Elimination Round 3. So, if you are a Russian-speaking high-school student, please take part in the Technocup 2017.

Many thanks to KAN, fcspartakm, Endagorion, Kostroma and Golovanov399 Hope to extend the list soon because of testers. Also some problem ideas are mine.

I hope you will like problems. It will be 6 problems.

Wish you good luck and bugless code

UPD: The scoring is 500 - 1000 — 1500 — 2000 — 2500 — 2500

Hello all.

This coming February of 2017 will be a new experience for me: I'll be one of the coaches who will teach at the Barcelona ACM-ICPC Bootcamp hosted by Harbour.Space University. In addition, here are some well-known coaches from our community: Endagorion, GlebsHP, Michael, Jacob and snarknews. The camp will be hosted in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC by MIPT. The same proven effective studying techniques will be used at the Barcelona Bootcamp.

For me, it will be the first teaching experience outside of Russia as well as my first trip to Spain. I’ll do my best to coach you how to solve problems in an efficient fashion. Also, it will be an excellent chance to communicate about Codeforces personally with the real users.

Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp, in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ACM ICPC, is an opportunity for teams of different levels to prepare for successful participation in ACM ICPC. The Bootcamp will be split in two divisions:

• Division A. Designed to prepare students to excel and win medals in the next ACM-ICPC World Finals.
• Division B. Designed to help teams prepare for the next season of ACM ICPC Regionals and international competitions. This is an appropriate introduction for teams and students new to the world of ACM ICPC and competitive programming competitions in general. The Division B curriculum features thematic lectures and contests.

The participation fee is €1270 per person (cultural programme, accommodation and meals included). The location in Europe gives the effect of the rather high cost. Anyway, the event is non-profitable for these reasons: To prepare world-wide teams for ACM-ICPC and to scale Russian expertise of coaching on other countries.

The Bootcamp will start on February 6th and will last for 9 days to February 14th. If your team (or you individually) is interested to take part, please register before December 24th, 2016 by the link (discount 20% for registration in time):

Register
to Barcelona ACM-ICPC Bootcamp

You can ask any questions by email hello@harbour.space

Hope to meet you on the Bootcamp,
MikeMirzayanov

Good afternoon.

Sorry. Unfortunately, today (on Friday) we can't run the round 383 :-(

In short, this is because of technical reasons. For those interested in a more detailed description option.

On Thursday night I got sms. It was written that on server for DB backups free HDD space is less than 10%. This server stores three copies of the database over the last three days. It has 2TB drive and Codeforces database over 600GB now.

Since the next day I had planned to spend on the train on the way to NEERC, I decided to delete some redundant data from the DB. I estimate it will give several tens of gigabytes of free space.

I run query to remove redundant data and it was a mistake. I seems because of huge table to update (tens millions of rows) estimated time for the query to compete was at least several hours. As a result, I have killed this query, making KILL QUERY. But the database has continued to lag, I decided to restart it. Operation to shutdown the DB hanged for ~2 hours (I think it was rolling back the transaction), and the DB has stopped to respond and has become quite sad. As a result, I killed the DB process in the operating system and the database already refused to start without a recovery operation, which is also wasn't completed in a couple of hours. In short, I have struggled with this from 5 am to 9 am.

To make Codeforces live I reconfigured it to use database replica in the remote datacenter (in Mail.Ru). Before boarding the train, I started the process of transferring data from the replica back, but contrary to my expectations, this process has been very slow.

It is impossible to run the round using a remote reserve database server. Therefore, we have to move the round forward to Tuesday.

My apologies. I spent many hours struggling with technical issues and worked up to the last. However, it seems the bottleneck is in speed of data transmission over a network, in the speed to write on HDD and in the speed of innobackupex utility.

I hope that on Tuesday everything will go fine!

MikeMirzayanov