Hello Codeforces!

We're glad to invite you to the upcoming Reply Code Challenges 2021 edition, on 11th of March.

It's a free online team-based challenge and you can choose between:

Standard Edition: designed for university students and professionals

Each member of the first-placed team wins a Mac Book Pro™ 16 (2.3GHz 6-core 9th-generation Intel Core i9 processor, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory, 16GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory and 1TB SSD storage). The second-placed team members each win a Mac Mini™ (Apple M1 chip with 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU and 16-core Neural Engine, 256GB SSD storage), the team members placed third in the ranking each win Apple Air-pods Pro™.

Registration opened on https://replychallenges.com/StandardEdition2021

Teen Edition: designed for students aged 14 to 19

The winning team will receive 5,000 euros. The second-ranked team will receive 2,000 euros, the third-ranked team will receive 1,000 euros.

Registration opened on https://replychallenges.com/TeenEdition2021

Description and rules available online at challenges.reply.com on March 11th from 4.30pm to 8.30pm CET. To play you must form a team by March 10th.

Follow us on our Telegram Channel: https://t.me/replychallenges

Hi everybody,

This Tuesday there will be a Moscow programming competition for school students of grades from 6 to 9. This contest is prepared by Moscow Olympiad Scientific Committee that you may know by Moscow Open Olympiad, Moscow Team Olympiad and Metropolises Olympiad (rounds 327, 342, 345, 376, 401, 433, 441, 466, 469, 507, 516, 541, 545, 567, 583, 594, 622, 626, 657, 680).

Round will be held at Feb/23/2021 12:05 (Moscow time). You will be given 5 problems and 2 hours to solve them. Round will be rated for second division (rating below 2100). As usual, participants from the first division can participate in a contest out of competition.

Problems are prepared by grphil, Jatana, rip, Sehnsucht, DebNatkh, KiKoS, wrg0ababd, V--o_o--V, voidmax, meshanya, vintage_Vlad_Makeev under my supervision.

Thanks to adedalic for the round coordination, cdkrot and meshanya for statement translation, and also thanks for MikeMirzayanov for systems Codeforces and Polygon, which was used to prepare problems of this olympiad.

Also thanks to Noam527 for providing an additional problem that helped to create (I hope) a balanced problem set for the round.

Good luck everybody!

Due to the official competition source codes of other participants will not be available for an hour after the end of the round.

UPD1: Thanks to LHiC, awoo, ScarletS, adarsh7777, kassutta, raj_mehta_ for testing.

UPD2:

Scoring distribution: 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2250 — 3000

UPD3: Editorial

UPD4: Winners!

Div. 2:

1. InternetPerson10
2. egor95123657
3. hhhyyyfff
4. xXx_KevinDu58_xXx
5. Flying2021

Div. 1 + Div. 2:

1. Um_nik
2. qazswedx2
3. 3.141592653
4. BigBag
5. InternetPerson10

Registration for International Data Analysis Olympiad (IDAO 2021) is open now. It’s being organized by HSE University and Yandex for the 4th time. Otkritie bank will be our platinum partner this year. The Olympiad will be convened by leading experts in data analysis and aims to bring together analysts, scientists, professionals, and junior researchers. Participation is free. Winners and prize-winners of IDAO 2021 will receive valuable prizes.

This year the online task is coming again from Physics. The task was given by the Laboratory of Methods for Big Data Analysis (LAMBDA, HSE University) together with CYGNO Collaboration (Italy).

The registration is open till March 12, 2021. The Olympiad includes two stages:

Online Stage (March 1-31):

• Track 1: Traditional machine learning competition on Yandex.Contest platform. You will need to make new predictions and upload them to the automatic verification system.
• Track 2: Come up with a solution for the same problem, keeping within a rigid framework of time and memory used.

Final (April 17-18):

• top 30 teams according to the Online Stage results will be invited to the Online final.
• In the final 36 hours of the competition, participants will try not just to train the model, but to create a full-fledged prototype, which will be tested both in terms of accuracy and performance.

Learn more: https://idao.world/

Hi, Codeforces!

I finally get to return something to this great community, so I am glad to invite you to take part in Codeforces Round #703 (Div. 2), which will take place on Feb/18/2021 17:35 (Moscow time). The round will be rated for the participants with rating lower than 2100. Participants from the first division are also welcomed to take part out of competition.

You will be given 2 hours 15 minutes to solve 6 problems. All the problems were created and prepared by me. One of the problems is interactive, please read the guide of interactive problems before the contest.

I would also like to thank:

• antontrygubO_o for excellent coordination!
• 1-gon, 3EVEHAR_KOAVA, Akulyat, Aleks5d, BRCode, Osama_Alkhodairy, PO3OBAR_Bblnb, arzhantsev64, bWayne, demon12321, kassutta, kclee2172, rkm62, sdl for testing the round and giving valuable feedback.
• Aleks5d for proposing another solution to one of the problems.
• MikeMirzayanov for great Codeforces and Polygon platforms!

Scoring: $$$500-1000-(750+750)-1750-2250-3000$$$.

Don't forget to read ALL the problems. I wish you good luck and high ratings!

I tried my best to create some good problems and clear statements, so I hope you'll enjoy the round:)

UPD: Editorial

UPD: Winners and First to solve

Div1 + Div2

Div2

First to solve

For example, tourist, you can find it on his profile page:

Hello, Codeforces!

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Hello! Codeforces Round #702 (Div. 3) will start at Feb/16/2021 17:35 (Moscow time). You will be offered 7 problems with expected difficulties to compose an interesting competition for participants with ratings up to 1600. However, all of you who wish to take part and have a rating 1600 or higher, can register for the round unofficially. The round will be hosted by rules of educational rounds (extended ICPC). Thus, during the round, solutions will be judged on preliminary tests, and after the round it will be a 12-hour phase of open hacks. I tried to make strong tests — just like you will be upset if many solutions fail after the contest is over.

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

Note that the penalty for the wrong submission in this round (and the following Div. 3 rounds) is 10 minutes.

Remember that only the trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. As it is written by link, this is a compulsory measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as trusted participants of the third division, you must:

• take part in at least two rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
• do not have a point of 1900 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600, then the round will be rated for you.

The problems for this round were invented by MikeMirzayanov, Supermagzzz, Stepavly and sodafago.

Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for platforms and coordination of our work. Thanks to darkkcyan, Sho, sodafago, Nebuchadnezzar, kocko, akagami_no_shanks, Gassa, infinitepro, bfs.07 for help in round preparation and testing the round.

Good luck!

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UPD: Editorial is ready!

Hello Codeforces!

On Feb/15/2021 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 104 (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 extended 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 6 or 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, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

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

Amazing news, Codeforces!

As we promised last time, we are coming back with a new scholarship opportunity!

We have partnered with Coherra to open the door for an exciting career in technology for the most talented people in our network.

In partnership with Coherra, we are offering a full scholarship to study a Master’s in Front End Development at Harbour.Space while working as a Front End Developer at Coherra!

Scholarship Highlights:

➡ Work in Europe’s most exciting tech cities

➡ Scholarship value of up to €22,900 to study at Harbour.Space University

➡ Competitive compensation for the internship at Coherra

➡ Opportunity to join Coherra full-time after graduation

We have previously partnered with other companies like OneRagtime, Hansgrohe, and Remy Robotics to empower young talents around the world and help them boost their tech career. We’ve already filled a few of the positions with our partners including:

• Full Stack Developer at OneRagtime awarded to Alejandro Martinez from Mexico
• Innovation Designer at Hansgrohe awarded to Giorgi Zhuzhiashvili from Georgia

We are always happy to see Codeforces members join the Harbour.Space family. Apply now to get a chance to learn from the best in the field and kickstart your career!

Keep in touch and follow us on LinkedIn for more scholarship opportunities. And follow us on Instagram to evidence student life, events, and success stories from our apprenticeship programme students.

Good luck on your round, and see you next time!

Harbour.Space University

Congratulations to the winners:

90 successful hacks and 1286 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

UPD: Editorial is out

Ciao, Codeforces! We're glad to invite you to take part in Codeforces Round #701 (Div. 2), which will be held on Feb/12/2021 17:50 (Moscow time). This round will be rated for participants with rating lower than 2100.

You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

We would like to thank

• MrBrionix, MyK_00L, taulant and TheScrasse (a.k.a. the jungkook official fanclub) for inventing and preparing the problems.
• isaf27 for the great coordination and the valuable help he provided at any time.
• antontrygubO_o for not being involved and hence not rejecting any problem.
• MikeMirzayanov for creating Codeforces and Polygon.

Last but not least, we also want to thank the testers: armyalpaca, dario2994, davi_bart, DeadlyCritic, franfill, HIS_GRACE, kclee2172, Lorenzo_Ferrari, Manik, mattysal, namanbansal013, Osama_Alkhodairy, Prakash11, rocks03, Shusaku, simpatine, stefdasca and _cherry_.

The score distribution will be announced soon.

We hope you'll like the problemset!

UPD1: The score distribution is $$$500 - 1000 - 1500 - 1750 - 2500 - 3000$$$.

UPD2: For technical reasons, the round was postponed by 15 minutes. Sorry for that, good luck on round!

UPD3: Editorial is out.

UPD4: Congratulations to the winners!

Div. 1 + Div. 2:

1. Muffinhead
2. jiangly
3. neal
4. rustylake
5. SSRS_

Div. 2:

1. rustylake
2. Join_VNOI_Discord
3. Mr_Eight
4. _Froggy_
5. Brookli

First to solve each problem:

A: m_99
B: kmjp
C: Brookli
D: MrDecomposition
E: w0nsh
F: rainboy

Hey Codeforces,

Don’t miss tomorrow’s SIT STAR Contest 2021, organized by the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) in Switzerland to promote interest in Computer Science and Software Engineering.

The online coding contest will be happening tomorrow on February 10, from 8:00 to 12:00 am UTC.

During the event, you will face 12 or 13 algorithmic programming challenges of increasing difficulty (Div 4, Div 3, Div 2). The contest is open to all, and you can sign up for free here.

Why participate?

Apart from being a fun coding experience, SIT STAR Contest 2021 is the easiest way to enroll in a fully-funded master’s program in Computer Science and Software Engineering at SIT. The prizes at stake range from small souvenirs from Switzerland to tuition waivers for master’s students to full scholarships the cover both tuition and living expenses.

Note that you must hold a bachelor’s degree or be in the final year of your studies to join SIT in September 2021.

Don’t miss your chance to continue your studies at SIT!

More about SIT

Schaffhausen Institute of Technology is founded by entrepreneurs, led by scientists, and advanced by world-class researchers. Based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, SIT drives knowledge through science across many projects. In particular, SIT Master’s offers a blended degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering that you can attend in person, online, or as a mix of both.