We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 228, this Wednesday, 4th March, rated for 6 stars (i.e. for users with rating < 2500).
Time: 8:00 PM — 10:00 PM IST
Joining us on the problem setting panel are:
Contest Admin: Vaibhav kingmessi Khater
Setter: Vaasu BiggestOtaku Kansal and Vaibhav kingmessi Khater
Tester: Archit Pols_Agyi_Pols Kumar
Statement Verifier and Text Editorialist: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh
Written editorials will be available for all on discuss.codechef.com. Pro users can find the editorials directly on the problem pages after the contest. The video editorials of the problems will be available only to Pro users.
Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here. Hope to see you participating.
Good Luck!








Contest starts in 30 minutes.
Codechef is literally beyond parody at this point. For anyone fortunate enough to not have taken this round, here are three problems that were considered worth putting into a "rated till 2500" round:
f(sequence)over all subsequences of all reversed prefixes of an array.sum(arr) - min(arr)over all arrays in $$$[1, m]^n$$$It increasingly feels like the primary strategy adopted by "problemsetters" at codechef is something like the following:
also note that codechef is the only platform somehow (un(?)intentionally) simultaneously minimizing human enjoyment and maximizing gpt-ability XD
Since last 6-7 contests every problem just asks us to find $$$f(x)$$$ over either all subsets or subsequences.
Were's the creativity??? Are they preparing us for a combinatorics olympiad or what?!