Hello Codeforces!

We, the disciples of Omkar (qlf9, Tlatoani, MagentaCobra, golions, and Omkar's newest disciple, rabaiBomkarBittalBang), have written our third contest: Codeforces Round 724 (Div. 2) — Omkar 3. It will be held on Jun/06/2021 17:35 (Moscow time) and will be rated for users in Division 2 (rating lower than 2100). As usual participants with rating >= 2100 are allowed to compete too, but the contest will be unrated for them.

You will be given 2 hours to solve 6 problems. There may or may not be an interactive problem, so it would behoove you to read the guide for interactive problems. There also may or may not be competitive programming problems, so you should be sure to thoroughly understand everything here.

We would like to thank:

• antontrygubO_o and isaf27 for coordinating this round and helping us improve our problems.

• Our testers, 244mhq, Monogon, Keshi, czhang2718, HackerMonk, Ari, wxhtzdy, 2020akadaver, smax, PurpleCrayon, AmShZ, FieryPhoenix, Jellyman102, namanbansal013, SlavicG, bWayne, Qualified, kassutta, and H4ckOm. They were great testers so they definitely deserve the karma that they will surely be begging for in the comments.

• MikeMirzayanov for creating the Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

• Omkar for creating the world and the human race.

The scoring distribution is 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2000 — 2250 — 2500.

May Omkar be with you!

Update: Thank you for participating in our contest! The editorial is here. We have video editorials for every problem there!

Update:

The winners in official standings:

1. xin_chen

2. adc-s11-sadge

3. conqueror_of_rainboy

4. XOXOX

5. TwTwTwTwT

The winners in unofficial standings:

1. neal

2. Maksim1744

3. dlalswp25

4. hank55663

5. fanache99

Congrats!

Hello Codeforces!

On Jun/04/2021 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 110 (Rated for Div. 2) will start.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

This round will be rated for the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Our friends at Harbour.Space also have a message for you:

Hey, Codeforces!

Once again, it is time for another exciting scholarship opportunity from Harbour.Space!

If you love technology, enjoy creating, and looking for an exciting career, Front-end Development might be for you! This time we are looking for talented individuals to launch our new programme with.

We are offering up to a 50% scholarship for our Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, opening the doors for an exciting career in technology for the most talented people in our network.

Requirements:

1. Diploma and transcript of the highest attained education level
2. Professional fluency in English
3. Your CV

What you will learn:

• Coding up to industry standards
• Accelerated learning
• Master new tech frequency
• Javascript frameworks, CSS preprocessors and methodologies, responsiveness, and also visual design
• And more

Make sure to apply before June 30, 2021, to be eligible for the scholarship and reduced application fee.

Some of the advantages of studying at Harbour.Space:

• We change the way of learning
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We are always happy to see Codeforces members join the Harbour.Space family. Apply now to learn from the best in the field and kickstart your career!

Keep in touch and follow us on LinkedIn for more scholarship opportunities. And follow us on Instagram to evidence student life, events, and success stories from students.

Good luck on your round, and see you next time!

Harbour.Space University

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

And finally people who were the first to solve each problem:

UPD: Editorial is out

Hi Codeforces!

We are DELTIX. Founded in 2005, DELTIX is one of the market leaders in software development for financial research and products for systematic and algorithmic trading. In 2020 DELTIX joined the EPAM family. Our mission is to turn promising ideas into breakthrough products fast.

We are experts in:

• aggregation, storage, and processing large volumes of time-series data
• data modeling
• testing and deployment of quantitative models

In our team we value skills like:

• knowledge of algorithms
• high-performance coding
• low latency data streams processing

Learn more about DELTIX

Throughout the year, once per quarter, we will be inviting you to join DELTIX rounds at Codeforces. Today, we are excited to welcome you to the first installment of our rounds (joined Div1 и Div2) — Deltix Round, Spring 2021 (open for everyone, rated, Div. 1 + Div. 2), that will start on May/30/2021 17:35 (Moscow time).

It is an open and rated round for both divisions.

We have prepared the following trophies for you:

• 1st place = the most desired console of 2021 — PlayStation 5!
• 2nd place = Nintendo Switch
• 3rd place = Nintendo Switch Lite
• 1-100: branded t-shirts

Another 100 t-shirts will be distributed randomly between 100 participants outside of top-100 and who have solved at least one problem and participated in rated Codeforces rounds before.

Problems have been prepared by our employees: Vladik, netman, AleXman111 and sdryapko.

We would like to say a word of appreciation:

• to KAN and budalnik for coordinating the round
• 74TrAkToR for the idea for one of the tasks, as well as its preparation
• to all testers: 244mhq, Tlatoani, gepardo, andrew, generic_placeholder_name, ajit, ptd, PurpleCrayon, 4llower, namanbansal013, coderz189, wxhtzdy, vineet16, kalki411 and viktoria.0907
• and of course, to MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon

We will offer participants 8 problems and 135 minutes to solve them. We wish everybody good luck and high ratings!

Fill out a short contact form if you are interested in internship and/or employment opportunities or would like to speak with recruiters or members of our team.

UPD: The scoring distribution is 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2250 — 2250 — 3000 — 3250 — 3250.

Thank you all for participating! (editorial)

Congratulations to the winners:
1. tourist
2. Radewoosh
3. Um_nik
4. maroonrk
5. ecnerwala
6. jiangly
7. SSRS_
8. Petr
9. scott_wu
10. Maksim1744

We would like to express our special congratulations to the top three leaders! We will try to send you your well-deserved prizes as soon as possible :) Unfortunately, we can not list the people who received 100 random T-shirts due to the fact that the search for cheaters is not completed.

Hello again Codeforces!

errorgorn, oolimry and iLoveIOI are glad to invite you to participate in Codeforces Round 723 (Div. 2) which will be held at May/28/2021 17:05 (Moscow time). The round will be rated for the participants with a rating lower than 2100. Participants from the first division are also welcomed to take part in the competition but it will be unrated for them.

You will be given 2 hours and 30 minutes to solve 6 questions. One of the puzzles is interactive, please read the guide of interactive problems before the contest.

We would like to thank:

• Our lord and saviour antontrygubO_o for amazing coordination and rejecting our poopoo tasks
• dantoh and tqbfjotld for roasting our enigmas and testing them before they were prepared
• our many testers balbit, kshitij_sodani, Monogon, T1duS, icypiggy,user14767553, maomao90, hbarp, wxhtzdy, Jellyman102, ETK. and jamessngg for bricking on bamboozlers and destroying our testcases
• MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon platforms

We hope you find the bugaboos interesting and fun! Wish you high rating!

Here is scoring distribution because you guys deserve it <3

• 500 — 1000 — (750+1000) — 2250 — 2500 — 3500

Btw, remember to downvote all testers who writes stupid comments to beg for likes.

UPD: editorial released

Hello everyone!

We invite you to participate in the ICPC Challenge powered by Huawei that will run from 12pm CST May 26 — 12pm CST May 30, 2021. The Challenge problem is based on a real-world industrial topic, providing participants the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge technologies, and is open to the global community.

The Challenge problem will be given in a pure graph-theory form and is part of an algorithm for compiler/runtime co-operative optimizations crucial for high throughput of Big Data analysis frameworks running on multi-node clusters.

Technical support during the Challenge will be offered throughout the duration of the Marathon. The technical team will be reading all comments/questions and will be providing answers and support as soon as possible.

Prizes for the top 20 Global Challenge performers are as follows:

• 1-4: Huawei MateBook X
• 5-8: Huawei P40 Pro
• 9-12: Huawei Matepad Pro
• 13-20: Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro

If the allocated Huawei Challenge prize cannot be delivered to your region for any reason it may be replaced by another prize of the same value, at the discretion of the sponsor.

All participants with an ICPC username will receive a Challenge completion certificate. If you don’t already have an ICPC username, you can register for one here. Please link your ICPC account to the Codeforces account here: https://codeforces.com/settings/general

By participating in this Challenge, you agree to the Challenge Rules and Conditions of Participation

About the ICPC Training Camp hosted by Huawei

The ICPC Training Camp powered by Huawei is an international program initiated by the International Collegiate Programming Contest University Commons (ICPCU) and proudly supported by Huawei. Structured in 3 distinct phases that began in Jan 2020, the program has offered a series of multi-regional training activities with the main goal of providing an open environment and continuous learning opportunities for existing competitors through the best academic and industry practices. The training program has included lectures and analysis from ICPC community membership, including coaches from ICPC World Finals championship teams, a variety of computational problems to solve, and Industrial Challenges.

The ICPC Training Camp series has been offered free of charge for all registered participants, thanks to Huawei’s generous support.

Contact Us: If you have any questions regarding the challenge or training camp, please contact [email protected].

Hi Codeforces!

Dio, Keshi, Tet, alireza_kaviani, Davoth, AliShahali1382 and I are delighted to invite you to participate in Codeforces Round 722 (Div. 1) and Codeforces Round 722 (Div. 2), which will be held at 24.05.2021 17:35 (Московское время). Each division will have 6 problems and 2 hours and 15 minutes to solve them.

The curse has finally been lifted! We are proud to announce that antontrygubO_o didn't reject even a single task from the Div. 1 part!

Huge thanks to the following people:

• antontrygubO_o for being an outstanding coordinator; This round wouldn't have happened if it weren't for him.

• Our ever-growing army of testers gamegame, Amoo_Safar, Atreus, dorijanlendvaj, aarr, Monogon, EnEm, N.N_2004, AaParsa, _Seyed37_, Roham, Clix, Narut, SinaSahabi, sinamhdv, arvindr9, shokouf, munghatekartik, Ali_Tavakoli, vodacbaoan, Shahraaz, -Suto-, coderz189, kassutta, the_borono, saarang, iANikzad, Etherite and -this-is-obd- for testing the round and providing invaluable feedback.

• MikeMirzayanov for the amazing platforms Codeforces and Polygon!

• Last but not least, to all the participants of this round!

For the sake of having short statements, this round does not have a theme. The characters featured in the statements are: Soroush (Tet), Sifid (Davoth), Parsa (Dio), Nima (N.N_2004), AaParsa (AaParsa), Haj Davood (davooddkareshki), Kavi (alireza_kaviani), Keshi (Keshi), Mashtali (AliShahali1382) and AmShZ (AmShZ).

Please read all of the problems and their notes, enjoy your time and solve as many as you can! Good luck have fun to everyone!

The scoring distributions will be announced later.

UPD: Here are the scoring distributions:

• Div. 1: 750 1000 1750 2000 2750 3000

• Div. 2: 500 1250 1750 2000 2750 3000

UPD: Editorial is out!

Hi, Codeforces!

I'm glad to invite you to take part in Codeforces Round #721 (Div. 2), which will take place on May/20/2021 17:35 (Moscow time). The round will be rated for the participants with a rating lower than 2100. Participants from the first division are also welcomed to take part in the competition but it will be unrated for them.

You will be given 2 hours to solve 5-6 problems. Problems were created by members of Club of Programmers IIT (BHU)- rivalq, sharabhagrawal25, loud_mouth, DenOMINATOR, Bignubie, mallick630, shikhar7s, CoderAnshu and Me.

Huge thanks to those who helped make this round possible:

• Aleks5d and KAN for their excellent coordination and for providing priceless feedback during contest creation.
• Monogon, ajit, kassutta, namanbansal013, Qualified, 4qqqq, Ekler, Rajdeep, wxhtzdy and kalki411 for testing and providing invaluable feedback.
• MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

We tried our best to create interesting problems and simple-to-read statements and we hope you have fun! Happy coding :)

UPD

Scoring Distibution:- 500 — (750 — 1500) — 1500 — 2250 — 3000

UPD

Congratulation to the winners

Global

1. ksun48
2. jiangly
3. alya_wow
4. Geothermal
5. TheIceKing

Div2

1. alya_wow
2. TheIceKing
3. fqwmc
4. l9ll6lll
5. Lenstar

UPD :- Editorial

Codeforces, welcome!

Registration for the ML competition from Raiffeisenbank that starts on May 17 is now open. The prize fund of the championship is 700,000 rubles. The competition is unrated.

All terms of participation were developed by the Raiffeisenbank eFX trading team in collaboration with Codeforces. Huge thanks to geranazavr555 for the testing and great advice and MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces systems.

Participants are invited to build a predictive model based on the provided historical data.

Cash prizes will be contested only among Russian residents (we expect winning participants to provide descriptions of their solutions in Russian).

Prizes:

• 1-4 places — 100K rubles each
• 5-10 places — 50K rubles each
• 1-60 places — merch packages

Registration is open until the end of the contest. Please fill in the contest registration form.

UPD1: Competition will now run for two weeks until May 31, 19:00 MSK!

UPD2: Use our baseline solution for a quick start

UPD3: Contest results are open. You can download the system testing data by the link http://assets.codeforces.com/rounds/1522/8f2fa64f1730ae12dc37504765d7e012e16613f0/tests2.csv

UPD4: Results will be announced within coming week! Stay tuned!

UPD5: The results are now final and the winners are:

1. PenaFeministka
2. arefiev.mc
3. YANK01
4. IgorDr1999
5. l4morak
6. Derbent
7. catforces
8. ZADaCHI
9. Taube
10. evteev

Congratulations! Everyone in global top-60 -- don't forget to check your inbox, we'll message you about merch packages.

Hello Codeforces!

On May/16/2021 11:00 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 109 (Rated for Div. 2) will start. Please, note the unusual start time.

Series of Educational Rounds continue being held as Harbour.Space University initiative! You can read the details about the cooperation between Harbour.Space University and Codeforces in the blog post.

This round will be rated for the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extended ICPC rules. The penalty for each incorrect submission until the submission with a full solution is 10 minutes. After the end of the contest you will have 12 hours to hack any solution you want. You will have access to copy any solution and test it locally.

You will be given 6 or 7 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

The problems were invented and prepared by Roman Roms Glazov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Ivan BledDest Androsov, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

Our friends at Harbour.Space also have a message for you:

Dear Codeforces!

We are reaching out to make sure you have everything you need to begin your journey at Harbour.Space University. That’s why we are hosting our very first Virtual Open.Day on May 20th at 4:30 p.m. (CET).

This Open.Day is an opportunity for our university to open its doors (virtually) for you to get an idea of what to expect in terms of the academic experience, student life, living in Barcelona and asking any questions you might have.

Remember, we have a full scholarship available for competitive programming! This scholarship is for Bachelor’s and Master’s students wanting to join any of our tech-related programmes and our dynamic programming team. Joining the Open.Day is the perfect opportunity for you to ask questions and make sure Harbour.Space is the right place for you.

Register for our Virtual Open.Day and see first-hand what life is like as a Spacer and the success stories of our scholarship recipients.

Here is a sneak peek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6f999g7qFA

Good luck on your round, and see you next time!

Harbour.Space University

UPD: Editorial is out