Junior Challenge is a yearly contest organised by volunteers from the Romanian programming community. You can read more about it in our previous blog post.

The second round takes place on Tuesday, September/05/2017 11:00 (UTC), and it will be unrated.

Contest format:

• You will have to solve 4 tasks in 4 hours.
• There will be full feedback throughout the entire contest.
• The tasks will have partial scoring. The maximum score for each problem will be 100 points.
• There will be no tie breaker, so two users having the same total score at the end of the contest will share the same place in the standings.

Many thanks to Andrei1998, bciobanu, tamionv, geniucos and george_stelian for authoring and preparing the tasks.

Round #46 (Div. 1.5)

The corresponding Round #46 starts at the same time, on Tuesday, September/05/2017 11:00 (UTC). The round will be rated for everyone with a rating below 1775 (this includes yellows).

Contest format:

• You will have to solve 6 tasks in 2 hours and 30 minutes.
• There will be full feedback throughout the entire contest.
• Tasks will not have partial scoring, so you need to pass all test cases for a solution to count (ACM-ICPC-style).
• Tasks will have dynamic scores. According to the number of users that solve a problem the score will vary between 100 and 1000.
• Besides the score, each user will also get a penalty that is going to be used as a tie breaker.

About the penalty system:

• Computed using the following formula: the minute of the last accepted solution + the penalty for each solved task. The penalty for a solved task is equal to log2 (no_of_submissions) * 5.
• Solutions that don't compile or don't pass the example test cases are ignored.
• Once you solve a task you can still resubmit. All the following solutions will be ignored for both the score and the penalty.

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