Team CodeChef wishes you all a very Happy New Year!

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 January 2013 Long Challenge. The January 2013 Algorithm Challenge is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/JAN13.

Here are the details:
Date: 1st January 2013 to 11th January 2013
Duration: 10 days
Problems: 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels + 1 challenge problem.

Problem Setters:

• Ivan Zdomsky (ballon),
• Vitaliy Herasymiv (witua),
• AnhDQ (AnhDQ),
• Vitalij Kozhukhivskij (Witalia),
• Vivek Hamirwasia (viv001),
• Khadar Basha (monumahiya),
• Kaushik Iska (cauchyk),
• David Stolp (pieguy),
• Hiroto Sekido (laycurse) and
• Vinayak Garg

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.