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By Kuyan, 5 years ago, translation, In English

Hi all!

I'm happy to invite everyone to a combined for Div.1 and Div.2 Mail.Ru Cup 2018 Round 2, that is starting at this time: Nov/10/2018 17:35 (Moscow time). The problems were prepared by Kuyan and Jacob. Thanks to cdkrot and 300iq for coordination and help in preparation.

Also huge thanks to majk, Lewin, vintage_Vlad_Makeev, demon1999 for testing, and also to MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

This round is the second round in the new championship called Mail.Ru Cup, you can learn more about it following the link. The round will be rated for everybody!

The championship feature the following prizes:

  • First place — Apple MacBook Air
  • Second and third place — Apple iPad
  • Fourth, fifth, sixth places — Samsung Gear S3
  • Traditionally, the top 100 championship participants will get cool T-shirts!

In each round, top 100 participants get prize points according to the table. The championship's result of a participant is the sum of the two largest results he gets on the three rounds.

There will be 7 problems for two and a half hours. The scoring will be available later.

I hope you will like the problems and wish you a rating increase!

UPD1: Scoring distribution:

500 1000 1500 2250 2750 3500 4000

The round is over, congratulations to the winners!

  1. aid
  2. LHiC
  3. V--o_o--V
  4. mnbvmar
  5. tourist

The current results of Mail.Ru Cup (summing up the two rounds) are published.

The analysis is also published.

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