We hope you participated and enjoyed the changes made to monthly Long Contests.

From now on, we will be having the problem statements available in Mandarin Chinese and Russian as well

As always, the long contests will start on first Friday of every month and last for 10 days. This ensures that two weekends are covered.

Continuing from there, we bring you the CodeChef August Challenge 2014 . The August 2014 Algorithm Challenge is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/AUG14.

Here are the details:
Date: 1st August 2014 to 11th August 2014
Duration: 10 days
Problems: 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels + 1 challenge problem.

Problem Setters:

• Constantin Sokol (kostya_by ),
• Devendra Agarwal (devuy11243),
• Dmytro Berezin (Berezin),
• Lalit Kundu (darkshadows),
• Pavel Sheftelevich (shef_2318),
• Praveen Dhinwa (praveen123)
• Sergey Nagin (Sereja),
• Vinayak Garg (vinayakgarg),
• Vitalij Kozhukhivskij (Witalia),

Problem Testers:

• Hiroto Sekido (LayCurse)
• Praveen Dhinwa (praveen123)

Editorialist:

• Lalit Kundu (darkshadows)

Mandarin Translator:

• Kojima Minako (xiaodao)
• Gedi Zheng (stzgd)

Russian Translator:

• Sergey Kulik (CherryTree),

It promises to deliver on an interesting set of algorithmic problems with prizes up for grabs.

The contest is open for all and those, who are interested, are requested to register in order to participate.

Check out the local time in your City/Time Zone here. Do share your feedback on what you feel about the new long contest format at feedback@codechef.com

Good Luck! Hope to see you participating.