Hello CodeForces Community! We are excited to invite you to the September Mega Cook-Off 2018 sponsored by ShareChat. This time there are additional incentives to participate in the contest. Top 50 Indian students in the Cook-Off who are participating in the ACM-ICPC 2018 will be eligible for ACM ICPC travel reimbursement. Not just this! There are more reasons to be excited as ShareChat, our sponsor of September Mega Cook-Off is offering full-time job opportunities for programmers across the globe. More details can be found on the September Cook-Off contest page.

Joining me this time on the problem setting panel are:

• Problem Setter: Odin- (Jafar A Badour), DOlaBMOon (Max Hsia)

• Problem Tester: Pepe.Chess (Hussain Kara Fallah)

• Problem Editorialist: taran_1407 (Taranpreet Singh)

• Statement Verifier: Xellos (Jakub Safin)

• Russian Translator: Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinikov)

• Mandarin Translator: huzecong (Hu Zecong)

• Vietnamese Translator: (VNOI Team)

• Hindi Translator: Srijan Dubey

• Bengali Translator:solaimanope (Mohammad Solaiman)

Contest Details:

Time: 23rd September 2018 (2130 hrs) to 24th September 2018 (0000 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone

Contest link: https://www.codechef.com/COOK98

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!!