Hello Codeforces!

Hack36 2020 and Computer Club, MNNIT Allahabad, India are glad to invite you to the first edition of a new programming competition of MNNIT Allahabad, CODENIGHT v1, which is an ACM-ICPC style team programming contest of 2 hours duration to be held on CodeChef during its annual hackathon event Hack36. A team can consist of up to 4 members.

Contest Details:

• Start Time: Monday, February 3, 2020, at 21:30 IST
• Duration: 2 hours
• Contest Link: https://www.codechef.com/HK362020
• The problemset consists of 8 problems.
• Languages allowed: C, C++, Java and Python.

Top 3 global teams will get 300 CodeChef laddus each and few top Indian teams get direct entry to Hack36 to be held at MNNIT Allahabad.

The problem setting panel includes GreedyMind (myself), xian02, acIN1go and ayushghd.

We have an exciting problemset awaiting for you. Good luck and have fun!

UPD 1: Thank you everyone for participating! And congratulations to the global winners:

1. Team HullCut Jawani (acraider, nitixkrai, fsociety00)
2. Team Kohra hi kohra (sardhara_preet, Rutvik_Kothari, deepsavani, _Mr_Fab)
3. Team LuckiestUnlucky (_Jaykishan_Parmar, Learner99, ayush_1998, bhavyashah9873)

Some stats for the contest:

• Total teams registered: 914
• Total teams who had made a submission: 727
• Total submissions: 3845
• All 8 problems solved by 2 teams
• Link to the ranklist — https://www.codechef.com/rankings/HK362020

Since it was the first edition of Codenight, we would like you to share your opinion in the comments about the contest. How was the level of difficulty for the problems? Should we've added more number of problems?