Hello Codeforces Community!
Wish you all a very Happy New year! Along with the celebrations we are beginning with our first contest of the year, the CodeChef January Long Challenge. The contest will go on for 10 long days. So, you have ample of time to participate, learn and code in the contest. Go ahead and check out the contest details below:
- Joining me on the problem setting panel are: maksym (Maksym Bevza), PraveenDhinwa (Praveen Dhinwa), mgch (Misha Chorniy), xennygrimmato (Vaibhav Tulsyan), sidhant (Sidhant Bansal), Sereja (Sergey Nagin), kevinsogo (Kevin Atienza), satyaki3794 (Satyaki Upadhyay).
- Contest Admin: PraveenDhinwa (Praveen Dhinwa)
- Tester: iscsi(Istvan Nagy)
- Russian Translator : CherryTree (Sergey Kulik)
- Mandarin Translator: huzecong (Hu Zecong)
- Vietnamese Translator: VNOI Team
Please feel free to provide the feedback about the problems in the comments.
Start Time: 06th January 2017 (1500 hrs) to 16th January 2017 (1500 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=January+Challenge+2016&iso=20170106T15&p1=44).
Details: https://www.codechef.com/JAN17
Registration: You need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. For all those, who are interested and don’t have a CodeChef user handle are requested to register in order to participate.
Prizes:
For Global participants:
1st prize: $400 2nd prize: $300
For Indians:
1st prize: INR 12000 2nd prize: INR 8000
In addition to the above prizes. Top 10 global, Top 20 Indian, Top 5 school (Indian), Top 5 school (Global), Top 3 challenge problem solvers Indian and Global (apart from the winners) and top 5 girl coders (given that they are among top 100 in the final rank list — this will be irrespective of the region) will get CodeChef laddus, with which the winners can claim cool CodeChef goodies. Know more here: https://www.codechef.com/laddu. (For those who have not yet got their previous winning, please send an email to winners@codechef.com)
On top of all it promises to deliver on an interesting set of algorithmic problems with something for all.
Good Luck! Hope to see you participating!!
