Greetings Codeforces community! You are all invited to CodeChef’s February Cook-Off sponsored by ShareChat. The Cook-Off is a short contest that lasts 2.5 hours and features 5 problems for you to try and solve. The contest problem statements are available in English, Hindi, Bengali, Russian, Mandarin and Vietnamese.

ShareChat — India’s fastest growing social network is offering exciting jobs and internships to the participants of the Cook-Off. Visit the contest link for more details.

I hope you will join your fellow programmers and enjoy the contest problems. Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Tester: Deemo (Mohammad Nematollahi)
• Editorialist: Pepe.Chess (Hussain Kara Fallah)
• Statement Verifier: Xellos (Jakub Safin)
• Setters: kingofnumbers (Hasan Jaddouh), deva2802 (Devanshu Agarwal), Pi-nan (Shivam Gor), Abhinav Jain
• Mandarin Translator: huzecong (Hu Zecong)
• Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI
• Russian Translator: Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinikov)
• Bengali Translator: solaimanope (Mohammad Solaiman)

• Hindi Translator: Akash Shrivastava

  Contest Details:

• Start Date & Time: 17th February 2019 (2130 hrs) to 18th February 2019 (0000 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone
• Contest link: https://www.codechef.com/COOK103
• 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 10 performers in Global and Indian category will get CodeChef laddus, with which the winners can claim cool CodeChef goodies. Know more here: https://www.codechef.com/laddu
  (For those who have not yet got their previous winning, please send an email to winners@codechef.com)

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