I would like to recommend Marathon 24, an annual team programming competition — I have participated in the first two editions and I had lots of fun. Problem writers are also welcome, details are given below.

Hello everyone!

Marathon24 is getting the contest ready for its third edition this fall (online qualifying round on October 17, 2015; and the Grand Final in Warsaw on November 28-29, 2015)!

Meanwhile, we are looking for support in preparing the tasks. We have two types of tasks — in the qualifying round we have optimization and algorithmic problems, each with 10 tests. In the finals there are game-like problems divided into rounds, which require building a strategy, observing the opponents’ moves and being alert for the whole 24 hours of the contest.

Here you can find the problem statements from previous editions of Marathon24: http://www.marathon24.com/archive/#2014-qualifications http://www.marathon24.com/archive/#2013-qualifications

We are also looking for tasks for the qualifyng round and task concepts for the finals. If you have an interesting idea for the task and want to prepare it for Marathon24 — contact us!

Any questions, doubts, suggestions? We’ll be more than happy to answer!

Send us an email to katarzyna@codilime.com and become a contributor to Marathon24! We are waiting for your ideas till Thursday, July 23, 2015.

For more information about the Marathon24 contest, please visit: http://www.marathon24.com.

Hello everyone!

Not so long ago summer trainings finished in Saratov State University, and to make it easier to monitor the success of our programmers we introduced a feature to add custom ratings. Now you also have this opportunity!

Currently rating is calculated as follows: overall rating is equal to the arithmetic mean of the ratings for each contest in which the user has participated. Contest rating depends on the ratio of problems solved by user and a number of problems solved by winner, as well as user's place in the contest. Also points for upsolving are added to the contest rating. There is a rumor that such method of calculating rating first was used in ITMO. More formally:

where

• R — contest rating,
• n — maximum of 50 and number of contest participants,
• place — 1-indexed used's place in the contest,
• solved — number of solved problems by the user,
• maxSolved — number of solved problems by the winner,
• upsolved — number of upsolved problems by the user,
• problemCount — total number of problems in the contest.

If a user participated in a team, his place equals to the place of the team in this contest.

To create a custom rating in the group you have to be its manager. There can be multiple ratings in one group with different sets of contests. There is a special button to create a rating in the group sidebar:

If you press the button rating creation form will appear:

Users are added to the rating only if they have participated at least in the given percent of all contests of this rating. By default one have to participate in 50% of all the contests.

If you wish you can set rating freeze date: upsolving after that date will not affect the rating.

Also now you can view status in groups: it shows only submissions for the group contests.

Good luck with training in Codeforces groups!

Hello Codeforces!

I'd like to invite you to Codeforces Round #312 (Div. 2). It'll be held on Tuesday, July 14th at 18:00 MSK.(notice the unusual starting time) and as usual Div. 1 participants can take part out of competition.

This is my second round after Codeforces Round 287 (Div. 2). :)

Great thanks to Maxim Akhmedov (Zlobober) for his great help in preparing the contest, Maria Belova (Delinur) for translating the statements into Russian, Mike Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) for the great Polygon platform and Polygon's developers team for their hard work in enhancing Polygon system.

The scoring distribution will be announced later.

Good luck everyone and I hope you'll find the problems interesting. ;)

UPD1 Scoring distribution will be 500-1000-1500-2250-2500.

UPD2 Contest is delayed 10 mins. Sorry for inconvenience.

UPD3 Contest is finished. Thank you everyone!

UPD4 System testing finished. Congratulations to the winners.

You can find the editorial here.

Hi all, we participated in challenge24 as aimfund team (zeliboba, ArtDitel,Zhukov_Dmitry), took 6th place and here is my writeup. We really love challenge24 and 24-hour format, thank you guys for making it, and we are waiting for the next year. But I should say that writeup will be mostly negative because of overall impression.

UPD Psyho's 1st place writeup with solutions: http://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/19023

Hello, Codeforces!

Previously, my contribution to the development of Codeforces was limited only by rounds preparation (Codeforces Round 288 (Div. 2), Codeforces Round 293 (Div. 2), Codeforces Round 297 (Div. 2)). But a month ago, I joined the wonderful Codeforces team led by Mike Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov). Traditionally, to understand all the niceties of this project, my work begun from Polygon system. I would like to tell you about its changes.

Polygon is a system for the preparation of programming problems. All Codeforces rounds and many other olympiads prepared in Polygon. Everyone at any time can use this system.

To edit the files in Polygon now used Ace Editor. It has a nice looking syntax highlighting and autocompletion (you have to press Ctrl + Space). Soon planned to implement this editor in Codeforces.

Hello, Codeforces!

I'd like to invite you to Codeforces Round #311 (Div. 2). It'll be held on Tuesday, June 30 at 18:00 MSK and as usual Div. 1 participants can join out of competition. Note that round starts in the unusual time!

Great thanks to Maxim Akhmedov (Zlobober) for helping me preparing the contest, to Maria Belova (Delinur) for translating the statements into English, to Mike Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) for the great Polygon platform and ideas of some problems and to my friends Ilya Los (IlyaLos) and Danil Sagunov (danilka.pro) for writing solutions.

The scoring distribution will be announced later. Good luck everyone!

UPD The scoring distribution will be standard today 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

UPD2 Competition completed! Thank you all!

UPD3 You can find editorial here.

Hello, Codeforces.

Soon, on 27 june at 17:00 MSK regular, 310-th Codeforces round will take place. Problems have been prepared by me, Andrey Sergunin, and Egor Shcherbin (Lord_F).

We want to thank Max Akhmedov (Zlobober) for helping us preparing the contest, Maria Belova (Delinur) for translating statements in English and Mike Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) for great Codeforces and Polygon systems.

Participants will be given five problems and two hours to solve them. Scoring will be announced later.

Good luck everyone!

This round will use the dynamic scoring.

UPD: Due to technical reasons round is delayed by 10 minutes.

UPD: The preliminary version of an editorial was posted.

UPD: Congratulation to the winners:

Div 1

1. qwerty787788

2. Petr

3. Haghani

4. KADR

5. zxqfl

Div 2

1. onufryw

2. munaiyi

3. _h_

4. Chenyao

5. mhadih

Hello Codeforces!

I invite all of you to participate in regular Codeforces round #309 that will take place on 24 June, 19:30 MSK.

Some of you may know me as lg5293 on Topcoder (you can see some of my past problems here), but this is my first time ever writing a Codeforces round. I've designed all the problems myself and I hope you enjoy them.

I want to thank ctunoku for helping me come up with stories for the problems, Zlobober for his immense help with preparation for this round, winger for testing the problems, Delinur for translating statements, and of course MikeMirzayanov for the superb Codeforces and Polygon systems.

I hope to see you all at the round. Good luck and have fun! :)

UPD: Scoring will be dynamic. Problems will be arranged by what I think is increasing difficulty.

UPD: Editorial is here. Congratulations to the top 5:

Div 1:

1. ecnerwala

2. scott_wu

3. enot110

4. KADR

5. yeputons

Div2:

1. Elsa_Elsa

2. Chenyao

3. cdkrot

4. Shayan

5. M_H_M

On April 4th, V (XVI) Volga Region Open Team Student Programming Contest was held in Samara State University. And now, we invite everyone who haven't already participated in the championship to join the Codeforces training contest version on June 21st (11:00 — 16:00 MSK, UTC+3). We believe that participants of any level will find problems that will be interesting for them. The contest will probably be mostly interesting to participants with violet and orange levels (difficulty is 4 stars).

This contest uses ACM ICPC rules.

Please, do not use the Internet, prewritten code and other sources: participants of the championship could not use any of these.

Contest was prepared by Dmitry Matov (Nerevar), Constantine Drozdov (I_love_natalia), Andrew Antipov (Sinner), Andrey Gaidel (Shlakoblock), Elena Rogacheva (elena), Sergei Shteiner (steiner), Alexander Efimov; Igor Baryshnikov (master_j) was of great help in English translation.

Greetings to the Codeforces community!

Regular Codeforces round #308 for participants from the second division will take place on 18 June, 19:30 MSK. Participants from the first division are able to participate out of the contest.

It is my second round on Codeforces(First round — Codeforces Round 280 (Div. 2)). Hope you will enjoy this round.

I want to thank Max Akhmedov (Zlobober) for help with preparation of this round, Maria Belova (Delinur) for translation of statements and Mike Mirzayanov (MikeMirzayanov) for great Codeforces and Polygon systems.

Participants will be given five problems and two hours to solve these problems.

UPD: Scoring is standard: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

UPD: Congratulation to the winners:

1. Ttocs45

2. RNS_JKS

3. RNS_CUS

4. kouekosita

5. grenade

UPD: Contest is over. Thanks for participating :)

UPD: Editorial