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 and Russian 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 December 2013 Long Challenge. The December 2013 Algorithm Challenge is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/DEC13.

Here are the details:
Date: 6th December 2013 to 16th December 2013
Duration: 10 days
Problems: 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels + 1 challenge problem.

Problem Setters:

• Bruno Oliveira (bruno_oliv),
• Iaroslav Tverdokhlib (KADR),
• Ivan Zdomsky (ballon),
• Konstantin Sokol (kostya_by),
• Minako Kojima (xiaodao),
• Roman Rubanenko (rubanenko),
• Sergey Kulik (cherrytree),
• Tuan Anh (tuananh93),
• Vitalij Kozhukhivskij (Witalia),
• Vivek Hamirwasia (viv001)

Problem Testers:

• Maubub(dragoon)
• Gerald (Gerald)

Editorialist: - ShangJIngbo (shangjingbo)

Mandarin Translator: - Kojima Minako (xiaodao)

Russian Translators: - Roman Rubanenko (rubanenko)

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.