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

From now on, we will be having the problem statements available in Mandarin Chinese as well

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

Continuing from there, we bring you the CodeChef October 2013 Long Challenge. The October 2013 Algorithm Challenge is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/OCT13.

Here are the details:
Date: 4th October 2013 to 14th October 2013
Duration: 10 days
Problems: 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels + 1 challenge problem.

Problem Setters:

• Bruno Oliveira (bruno_oliv),
• Ivan Zdomsky (ballon‎),
• Kaushik Iska (cauchyk‎),
• Mugurel Ionut Andreica (mugurelionut‎ ‎),
• Sergey Nagin (Sereja),
• TianCheng Lou (ACRush‎),
• Tom Chen (AekdyCoin ),
• Vitaliy Herasymiv (witua),

Problem Tester: - ShangJingbo(ShangJingbo)

Editorialist: - Ajay Kumar Verma (djdolls)

Mandarin Translator: - Kojima Minako (xiaodao)

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.