Hello everyone!
We invite you to participate at Codeforces Round #225, scheduled Monday, 20th January at 7:30 PM MSK. This is the third round I coauthor, along with Codeforces Round 198 (Div. 1) (and of course Div. 2 version of contest) and Codeforces Round 191 (Div. 2).
If you recall my old rounds, you'll see that main character is Iahub. The other writer of this round is... Iahub... the real person corresponding to "Iahub" character. Let me introduce you to Rares Buhai (rares.buhai). He's the author of Div. 2 C / Div. 1 A, Div. 1 D and Div. 1 E. You can expect those problems to be interesting, coming from a 2 times IOI gold medalist (being allowed to participate 2 more times). All other problems are created by me. I like them, but I wouldn't be objective if I said that they're interesting. Let's see if someone will think so after the contest :)
Like last time, I'll give you a little spoiler about the tasks. We tried to make the problem set as varied as possible. In order to get a good rank, one needs to be good at "ad hoc" problems as well as have good algorithmic knowledge.
As always, thanks to MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces platform, to Delinur for translating tasks, to Gerald for helping us prepare the round and to DamianS and ll931110 for testing it.
We wish everyone high rating and to have fun!
UPD Score distribution:
Division 1: 500 — 1500 — 1500 — 2000 — 2500
Division 2: 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2500 — 2500
UPD Contest is over! Thanks for everyone who participated! I need to say we're impressed of your creative and totally unexpected solutions for Division 1 D.
Div. 1 winners:
- yeputons
- Arcueid
- Dmitry_Egorov
- ACMonster
- scott_wu
Div. 2 winners:
- Sick_coder
- akaring
- c0d3junki3
- raihatneloy
- sky0917
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