Hi all!

In two days, at 19:35 MSK Codeforces Round #339 (Div. 1 & Div. 2) will take place. This is an unusual round since we — the problemsetters — are highschool students who participate in the programming training group at high school #179. This round is our first effort and we did our best to make it interesting and bug-free. I invite you all to compete in this round since the problems will be solvable, but even tourist will have to think over some of them. :)

With supervision and control from Mikhail Tikhomirov (Endagorion), the problems were developed by: Egor Chunaev (ch_egor), Vasily Alferov (platypus179), Dmitry Sayutin (cdkrot), Timofey Gutor (Tigutor), Maria Fedorkina (crossopt). Mikhail Sorokin (themikemikovi4) and Sergey Aleikin (Derrior) contributed their problem ideas.

We thank Gleb Evstropov (GlebsHP) for his help in preparing the contest, Maria Belova (Delinur) for translating the statements in English, AlexFetisov and winger for testing, and, of course, MikeMirzayanov for unique CodeForces and Polygon systems.

Round will have standard Codeforces rules, with pretests at first, and final tests afterwards. Take care to account for all possible cases.

Best of luck to everyone!

UPD Points for problems are

Div 2. 500-1000-1750-2250-2250, Div 1. 750-1250-1250-2000-2500

UPD Congratulations winners! результаты

Div1:

1. TankEngineer

2. KAN

3. Petr

4. Um_nik

5. snuke

6. matthew99

7. jcvb

8. superpear

9. pashka

10. fsouza

Div2:

1. mingaleg

2. Ronnoc

3. BoQiR

4. maks1906

5. zloyplace35

6. huansuz1

7. 2016

8. Danlark

9. MrPapaya

10. bohuss

UPD Editorial

Hi, Codeforces!

Happy New Year! Holidays and 2015 year have passed and year 2016 is ahead. I wish you good luck in programming competitions and achieving all of your goals this year.

Educational Codeforces Round 5 will take place on 11 January 2016 at 18:00 MSK for the first and second divisions. You can read about educational rounds here and here.

<A year has passed, but paragraph remains unchanged.>

The round will be unrated for all users and it will be held with extented ACM ICPC rules. You will have two hours to solve six problems. After that you will have one day to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

</A year has passed, but paragraph remains unchanged.>

Thanks a lot to Grigory Reznikow vintage_Vlad_Makeev who prepared a good problem (the problem F in ER 5). You can send to me some ideas of problems or maybe already prepared problems that you can't use in rounds or official competitions.

As usual the round was prepared by me, Edvard Davtyan. Thanks a lot to MikeMirzayanov for helping to invent the problems. Also thanks in advance to Maria Belova Delinur who will check English statements.

I think the problems is not difficult (except maybe for problem F). I hope you will enjoy the problems and solve all of them!

Good luck and have fun!

UPD 1: Coding phase is finished. You can hack other solutions for 24 hours.

UPD 2: The editorial is ready.

UPD 3: During the phase of hacks we found the following: the same solutions on Python2 and Python3 works differently on different large tests. For example, some of Python3 solutions works very slow on tests with only zeros, but Python2 works very slow on tests with nines. Some of solutions works in around one second so we decided to increase the time limit for the problem A to 2 seconds. All the solutions will be rejudged soon on the complete testset.

UPD 4: The round is over. All solutions will be rejudged soon on the complete testset (includes the hacks).

Facebook Hacker Cup 2016 is starting soon. Don't miss the qualification round, which starts at midnight UTC and lasts for 3 days. To advance, you will need to solve at least one problem.

This year's finals will be in London, so this is another chance for those who missed GCJ finals in 2013.

You can enter the round using this link, but you need to log into Facebook first.

Greetings!

Codeforces Round #338 (Div. 2) will be held tomorrow. Note that round starts at the unusual time! This round was made by Maxim Vinnichenko(maxkvant), and me, Alexander Zoykin. It is our first round and we hope that everything will be OK. Thanks to GlebsHP for the great help in preparing the contest, Bobrosoft for being more than tester, Delinur for translating the statements into English, and MikeMirzayanov for the great Polygon and Codeforces systems.

score distribution 500 — 1250 — 1750 — 2000 — 2500

Good luck!

upd Congratulations to winners!

div 2:

zhangzj_is_our_sun

marcorezieho

Claris

ucfpt

Tomer.Adar

div 1:

I_love_Tanya_Romanova

ngfam_kongu

sd0061

pavel.savchenkov

ershov.stanislav

Editorial

Hello!

Here are some statistics about 2015. I'm glad to see our growth. Frankly, each year I'm afraid to see that we stop to grow, but each year I see 20-50% growth! Thank you for your interest :-)

In addition, I have written before about progress in the development and championships and rounds with partner companies in 2015. If you have not read, please read.

Here are the funny pictures with the statistics:

Growth of registerations. This year we overcame 300K users!

Hello!

I congratulate New Year to the entire Codeforces community! I wish you interesting problems, beautiful solutions and successful attempts in the last seconds! I wish not to lose interest in programming, to believe in themselves and regularly find confirmation of this belief. And do not get sick and more smile (even if your rating decreases). Hooray!

The profile settings appear magical section. Happy New Year!

Hi everybody.

The last round of the 2015 will take place on the 30-th of December (starting time). The contest will last 3 hours.

It won't be a usual round. Both divisions will compete together. You will get 8 problems to solve in 3 hours. Points will decrease slower than usually — otherwise you would get eps for solving a problem at the end. Scoring will be announced just before a contest. So will the speed of the points/minute loss.

My goal was to provide you a diverse problemset with interesting problems for all contestants. During a contest you should consider reading not only the next problem but the few next ones.

You will get this round thanks to work of many people. I am a problem setter. GlebsHP helps me with everything (a lot). AlexFetisov, johnasselta and Zlobober are testers (thanks guys!). Delinur translates everything into Russian. Last but not least, MikeMirzayanov provides two awesome platforms — CF and Polygon. And there are so many people involved in Codeforces. Thank you all.

Let me give you more motivation to compete. The New Year is coming for Limak and he needs your help! Limak is a little polar bear by the way. You will help him, won't you?

I wish you great fun and no frustrating bugs. Looking forward to seeing you!

SCORING

Points will decrease with such a speed that submitting a problem at the end would give you the same number of points as in standard 2-hours rounds. Points for problems are 500-750-1250-1750-2500-2500-3000-3500. Enjoy the last contest in this year!

EDITORIAL

Instead of refreshing standings you can read an editorial. I will keep polishing it.

WINNERS

I'm amazed by the number of high-rated participants today. Fight was really tough and winners truly deserve respect.

1. tourist
2. Petr
3. Egor
4. rng_58
5. black_horse2014
6. step5
7. I_love_Tanya_Romanova
8. bmerry
9. W4yneb0t
10. V--o_o--V

It was the last Codeforces round in the 2015. Thanks for participating. And kudos for Mike for creating CF.

I wish you all an awesome year. Let the 2016 be (even) better than the passing year. Cheers.

Hurry! Only until the 10th of January, you can change your handle (but only once)! Note that it will be possible to roll back the changes or change the handle again only after a year. Be careful what you wish for.

You can change your handle to the new one which wasn't used before by anybody or which was used by you before. The links to a profile page with old handle would automatically redirect to the actual profile.

Talking about handles I always reminisce the following story. Once a user wrote me the message: "Please change my handle from I_love_Valya to I_love_Sveta, as I no longer love Valya ..."

Happy New Year!

Hello!

In 2015 we have not only engaged in the organization of rounds and championships. Every day we write the code, debug, test and explore a variety of tools and technologies to make Codeforces better. Even if in some periods you have not seen great changes on the website, it does not mean that the development was stopped — just some of the innovations relate solely to infrastructure, architecture or administrative interfaces and are not visible to the users.

I have collected in a list of all the innovations, which touch users in some sense. This faceless list includes results of many days of work of each member (sometimes with prefix ex-) of Codeforces technical team: MikeMirzayanov, MaximShipko, kuviman, fcspartakm, Avalanche. There are valuable helpers Edvard (helped with the introduction of educational rounds), stingray (constant help with the administration and configuration of servers is priceless), demlit and lthirteenthl (assistance with the administration and hardware). And I just listed those who assist in technical terms — there is an important list of all of those who contributed to the life of Codeforces in other aspects. Thank you!

Here is the promised list of completed (sometimes partially) cases in 2015, the year.

Hello everybody!

I hope you have the holiday spirit!

Later I will publish statistics for the year and tell you about our achievements of this year, and for now I will talk about championships and competitions that we made with our partners in 2015. My speech does not include any activities that we have conducted very far from the Codeforces site (e.g., Russian AI Cup).

This year is remembered by many interesting events that we did not by ourselves, but together with partners. I am particularly pleased that all companies who wished to fill the ranks of their employees found worthy candidates among our members. And someone said that the Olympiads are not needed! That is a lie. Here is the list of events:

VK Cup 2015

Team Championship for young participants, was conducted in Russian. 2349 registered teams of two (rarely of 1 participant). The coolest prize money and rich finals in St. Petersburg. Organizer is the VK company.

Rockethon 2015

Open individual competition by the original rules of the Rocket Fuel company. More than 3600 participants and 6565 registrations!

ZeptoLab Code Rush 2015

Individual competition by the classical rules of the ZeptoLab company. 3090 participants and 5504 registrations, excellent presents for the winners! And insanely beautiful drawings from ZeptoLab artists!

Looksery Cup 2015

! Looksery

Individual competition by the classical rules of the Looksery company. This company did not only congratulate us on our 5th anniversary, but conducted such a cool round. And the fund of the company's founder had very cool initiatives supporting the development of sports programming! 3528 participants and 5714 registrations. Yes, the gifts are yet on the way!

AIM Fund Round 2015

Individual competition in two divisions by the classical rules of the AIM Fund company. Prepared in the context of congratulating Codeforces on the 5th anniversary, thank you! 4064 participants and 6721 registrations. I've heard a lot about the after-party in Petrozavodsk. I wish I had been there!

Call To Code 2015

A competition for Irish schoolchildren by unusual rules. It was not conducted on the Codeforces site, but on our platform. Organized by the Google company.