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By witua, 9 years ago, In English

CodeChef invites you to participate in the March Cook-off 2015 at http://www.codechef.com/COOK56.



Time: 22nd March 2015 (2130 hrs) to 23rd March 2015 (0000 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone.

Details: http://www.codechef.com/COOK56/

Registration: Just need to have a CodeChef user id to participate.

New users please register here

- Problem Setter : Vitaliy Herasymiv
- Editorialist: Amit Pandey
- Problem Tester: Istvan Nagy
- Contest Admin: Praveen Dhinwa
- Russian Translator : Sergey Kulik
- Mandarin Translator: Gedi Zheng

It promises to deliver on an interesting set of algorithmic problems with something for all.
The contest is open for all and those, who are interested, are requested to have a CodeChef userid, in order to participate.

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9 years ago, # |
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Thanks for an interesting problemset :) And I was also surprised by CodeChef working almost perfect at the beginning of the contest:)

But why did you made problemset so hard for novice programmers? Today among users who made at least one attempt only 25% finished with nonzero number of solved tasks. Maybe you should give simpler first task next time?

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    9 years ago, # ^ |
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    I made the first problem this time even easier than last time (in Augut 2014) and it didn't really help. I guess I should just keep trying.

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      9 years ago, # ^ |
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      I think we need a hard contest once in a while, and problem A wasn't that hard. Problems were very nice and new type