Welcome all to the next Codeforces Format round!

In this round I will replace Artem Rakhov in his usual role of contest administrator: Artem have set out to America to take part in TopCoder Open Algorithm onsite. Good luck, Artem!

The contest has ended, results.

User a4461497 has won the contest, while among first-division users - kuniavski was the first who solved all 5 problems.

Attention, participants from the Division 1! As a test feature, you can participate in Codeforces Beta Round #32 "out of competition".

Everybody knows, that the 2nd of October - birthday of Mohandas Gandhi. We dedicate today's round to him, and many other great people who were born on October 2 :)

Round was prepared by Mike Mirzayanov, Matov Dmitry and Max Ivanov.

Special thanks to Julia Satushina for translation of statements.

Good luck!

Artem Rakhov and Codeforces team

What can be better than good news? Right you are - excellent news. The news I'm going to share with you is such.

We're glad to tell you, that VK company is now the primary sponsor of Codeforces project! It's a great honor for us - because VK is not only the largest social network in Russia and one of the largest in the world, it's also an example of a high-tech, innovative approach and dynamic development.

VK's help will allow us to continue the development of the platform, to run interesting contests for you on a regular basis. We have ambitious plans to fill Codeforces with useful educational content.

It's also important for us, that Codeforces programming contests community attracts not only its makers and participants.

"Codeforces contributes a lot into the development of collegiate programming in Russia. I'm glad that we have a chance to support this project. I hope it becomes even more interesting to participate in and win Codeforces contests", - says Pavel Durov.

"A powerful developers team is the main driving force of our company. It's at contests, like Codeforces, where we find young and talented programmers, who can solve difficult technical tasks", - added Andrey Rogozov, the head of VK development department.

Wish you high rating,
Mike Mirzayanov

Today's contest was prepared by Saratov SU 2 team (Maxim Ivanov, Artem Rakhov, Nickolay Kuznetsov).

You will be asked to solve five easy and not so easy problems for some King, whom you hardly heard anything before. The king hopes that the problems won't turn out very difficult to you, and he will have a wide choice among different solutions to each of the problems.

UPD. The contest has finished, thanks to all of you.

The Results table.

Greeting to rng_58 for his win in today's round!

Problem tutorials: A, B, C, D, E.

Attention-Attention!!!

Today Saratov SU #1 (Gerald, Polichka, Fefer) team invites all of you to take part in Codeforces Beta Round #28. 

We began studing sport-programming in school. But when we entered the Saratov State University we took it seriously and made our way from SU #7 to Saratov SU #1. Now our first-grade ambition is to justify this number.