On 20.09.2018 17:45 (Московское время) Educational Codeforces Round 51 (рейтинговый для Див. 2) will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

This round will be rated for the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Ivan BledDest Androsov and me.

Good luck to all participants!

Our friends at Harbour.Space also have a message for you:

Harbour.Space University is proud to announce new partnerships for this year’s Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp — VTB and Indeed Tokyo, with the addition of team sponsors Phaze Ventures and Spark Labs.

VTB, the largest international bank based in Eastern Europe, continues to be an official partner of our Hello Programming Bootcamp series, adding further quality to the 3rd edition of the Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp by bringing their own participants, as well as by supporting top teams from around the world.

Indeed Tokyo is Japan’s branch of the #1 employment website in the world, giving job seekers free access to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites and job boards. As they sponsor for the second year in a row, Indeed continues to offer the best job opportunities to the boot camp participants as they gather in Barcelona from September 26 to October 4, 2018.

UPD: There was a bug in testset and validator for problem F, we are currently fixing the issue. The statement included the correct resrictions. We will rejudge all the solutions as soon as possible. The round can become unrated, we are discussing this at the moment.