Greetings Codeforces Community!

The CodeChef February Long Challenge is all set to be served. We invite coders from across the community to become a part of this ten-day long coding Contest. 

The Chef’s 11th Birthday is right around the corner and he has a special pre-birthday present for all participants of the February Long Challenge. Scholarships for the CodeChef DSA Certification will be awarded to some of the top-ranking coders. The present gives you the opportunity to win scholarships of as much as 100% too!

The contest will be live from 7th February till 17th February. So code, learn and don't forget to become a part of this exceptional race to the top of the leaderboard.

The problem statements will be available in English, Hindi, Bengali, Russian, Mandarin, and Vietnamese.

Also if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in the CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Code against Programmers from all over the globe in this thrilling contest! Accompanying me on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: sahi1422 (Sahil Chimnani), Alex_2oo8 (Alexey Zayakin), rishup132 (Ritesh Gupta), foyaz05 (Foyaz Akanda), Morphy (Alei Reyes), jtnydv25 (Jatin Yadav), Simon St James, Kushal Goel, nagpaljatin1411 (Jatin Nagpal)

• Tester: radoslav11 (Radoslav Dimitrov)

• Editorialist: tmwilliamlin168 (William Lin)

• Statement Verifier: Xellos (Jakub Safin)

• Admin: Alex_2oo8 (Alexey Zayakin)

• Russian Translator: Mediocrity (Fedor Korobeinikov)

• Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI

• Bengali Translator: solaimanope (Mohammad Solaiman)

• Hindi Translator: Akash Shrivastava

• Mandarin Translator: Ioser (Hanlin Ren)

Contest Details:

• Start Date & Time: 7th February 2020 (1500 hrs) to 17th February 2020 (1500 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your timezone.

• Contest link: http://bit.ly/FEB20-Codeforces

• Registration: You just need to have a CodeChef handle to participate. For all those who are interested and do not have a CodeChef handle, are requested to register in order to participate.

• Prizes: Top 20 performers in the Indian category and top 10 performers in the Global category will get CodeChef laddus, with which the winners can claim cool CodeChef goodies. First to solve each problem except challenge — 100 laddus. Know more here: https://goodies.codechef.com/

Good Luck! Hope to see you participating! Happy Programming!