We hope you participated and enjoyed the changes made to monthly Long Contests.

From now onwards, the long contests will start on first Friday on every month and last for 10 days. This ensures that two weekends are covered.

Continuing from there, we bring you the CodeChef May 2013 Long Challenge. The May 2013 Algorithm Challenge is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/MAY13.

Here are the details:
Date: 3rd May 2013 to 13th May 2013
Duration: 10 days
Problems: 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels + 1 challenge problem.

Problem Setter:

• Tuan Anh (tuananh93),
• Roman Rubanenko (Rubanenko),
• Vamsi Kavala (vamsi.kavala),
• Kaushik Iska (cauchyk),
• Shalini Sah (mischievous_me),
• Manish Kumar (Manish-Kumar),
• Vinayak Garg (vinayakgarg),
• David Stolp (pieguy),
• Shangjingbo (shangjingbo).

Problem Tester:

• David Stolp (pieguy),
• Pradeep Mathias (pragrame)

Editorialist: Shilp Gupta (goons_will_rule)

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.