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Invitation for August Cook Off, 2018
By allllekssssa, history, 6 years ago, In English

Hello CodeForces Community!

We’re happy to invite you to the August Cook-Off 2018 sponsored by ShareChat. And there are more reasons to cheer as there are some exciting full-time job opportunities by ShareChat for professionals across the globe. More details can be found on the August Cook-Off contest page.

Looking forward to seeing your participation in the August Cook-Off 2018! This time on the problem setting panel are:

  • Problem Setter: allllekssssa (Aleksa Plavsic)
  • Problem Tester: Pepe.Chess (Hussain Kara Fallah)
  • Editorialist: taran_1407 (Taranpreet Singh)
  • Statement Verifier: Xellos (Jakub Safin)
  • Russian Translator: Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinikov)
  • Mandarin Translator: huzecong (Hu Zecong)
  • Vietnamese Translator: (VNOI Team)

Contest Details:

Time: 19th August 2018 (2130 hrs) to 20th August 2018 (0000 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone

Contest link: https://www.codechef.com/COOK97

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://discuss.codechef.com/questions/51999/how-do-i-win-a-codechef-goodie
(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!!

UPDATE:

BAM BAM BAM HE DID IT, HE DID IT !!!! We have a winner ! uwi solved all five tasks and took the first place. Congratulations !

TOP 5:

uwi

tourist

LHiC

nuip

zeliboba

Congratulation to div 2 winner TadijaSebez — Serbia is proud of you !

Thanks all for participation ! You made this contest amazing !

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I hope, this time difficulty level will be easier than some previous cook offs.

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    I really hope it will be more balanced by amount of AC than previous rounds :)

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    Obviously I wasn't right. Hack Fulu is much harder than we expected. I am really sorry for it, but I hope you find something interesting in tasks :)

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      Yeah. But I think I had seen that GUZAC problem somewhere else. Maybe I will find that link ASAP and send it to you.

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Contest is starting for 3 minutes !

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The first div0 round ;)

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by allllekssssa (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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How to solve the problem Standard Tree Task ?

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No one would have expected this solution for the toughest problem of a cookoff. xD

Link

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    At least nobody got AC on that way during the contest.

    I am not sure how did it pass. I believe it is problem with language time limit of problem and it should be solved for next contests by Codechef! We tested problem pretty much and I am sure that total brute force is not even close to pass on current data.

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      Also your solution for HACKFU is giving wrong output for many cases. For example:

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88 4688 31 4 88

      It's failed with almost the first random test! Is it also been tested pretty much ?

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        6 years ago, # ^ |
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        Actually the correct story is next:

        I had bug in my frist solution when I generated testcases(that solution). Then tester noticed it and I changed code and test-data. But we didn't rejudged all previous submissions (because I only had one AC), so editorialist saw AC and added first code because it is more clear than my second.

        For better understanding all this stuffs happened before round :)

        I will ask him to change it. Sorry for our mistake.

        PS: That solution must give WA if you test it on CodeChef.

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          Btw, thanks for the problems, I enjoyed a lot. I just want to point this moment to you, so you be more carefully next time.

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