Hello, Codeforces!
I am pleased to invite you to participate in ICPC Beginner Contest for Newbies- Round 2, which will be held at Friday, July 19, 2024 at 15:05 UTC+5.5. You will be given 19 problems and 48 hours to solve them. The difficulty of contest is 1 star. Problems are sorted in difficulty order.
Plz Join this link.
Congrats for the winners:
1) spampots
2) kushagraG
3) anango
4) array
5) abo7ady
6) dualthread
7) sour_hub
I think the difficulty gradient of the round was too great, after the 800-rated first problem the rest of the problems were 3500s. I would suggest a more gentle progression, perhaps making each problem 100-200 points higher in difficulty than the previous one.