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 July 2013 Long Challenge. The July 2013 Algorithm Challenge is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/JULY13.

Here are the details:
Date: 5th July 2013 to 15th July 2013
Duration: 10 days
Problems: 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels + 1 challenge problem.

Problem Setter:

• Kaushik Iska (cauchyk),
• Hiroto Sekido (laycurse),
• Ivan Zdomsky (ballon),
• Jay Pandya (mendax),
• Roman Furko (Furko),
• Sergey Nagin (sereja),
• Vamsi Kavala (vamsi_kavala),
• Vinayak Garg (vinayakgarg),
• Vitalij Kozhukhivskij

Problem Tester and 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.