On Oct/25/2018 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 53 (Rated for Div. 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, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov and me.

Good luck to all participants!

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

Hey Codeforces! We want to remind you that the Scholarship for the Master’s in Robotics programme, which starts on January 7th 2019, has an application deadline of November 12th, 2018.

Harbour.Space University and Remy Robotics are collaborating to offer graduate students from anywhere in the world a once in a lifetime opportunity, a fully funded scholarship for Harbour.Space University’s Master’s Programme in Robotics.

The scholarship value is €34.900 and it includes:

• Complete coverage of the University tuition fee (€22,900)

• Internship at Remy Robotics (20h per week during 1 year)

• €1,000 per month during 1 year (Internship earnings)

UPD: vovuh and me will be waiting for you on the community Discord server shortly after the contest to discuss the problems.

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

And finally people who were the first to solve each problem:

UPD2: Editorial is published