We hope you participated and enjoyed the changes made to monthly Long Contests. We had made some changes to the long contest format to make it more exciting. 10 problems for 10 days! It now has everything for everyone, be it a newbie or a veteran You can read more about it in here.

Continuing from there, we bring you the CodeChef October 2012 Long Challenge. The October 2012 Algorithm Challenge is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/OCT12.

Here are the details:
Date: 1st October 2012 to 11th October 2012
Duration: 10 days
Problems: 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels + 1 challenge problem.

Problem Setter:

• Gaoyuan Chen (cgy4ever),
• Kaushik Iska (cauchyk),
• Nikhil Garg (Nikhil),
• Vitalij Kozhukhivskij (Witalia),
• Vitaliy Herasymiv (witua),
• Roman Rubanenko (Rubanenko),
• Vamsi Kavala (vamsi_kavala),
• Khadar Basha,
• Hiroto Sekido (laycurse).

Problem Tester and Editorialist : Anton Lunyov ( Anton Lunyov ),

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.