Hello Codeforces!

On Mar/23/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 84 (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 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!

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

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

UPD: Editorial is out

Hello, Codeforces.

I hope you wash your hands and feel great.

I added the support of 64-bit g++. If you are using Windows, you can easily install it via our minimalistic package manager PBOX running the command line pbox install msys2-mingw64-9.

Your solutions are compiled with the command line g++ -static -DONLINE_JUDGE -Wl,--stack=268435456 -O2 -std=c++17 program.cpp.

Now you can try to use int128 and other 64-bit specific features! In fact, I am slightly worried that the presence of such features may widen the gap between C ++ and other languages. Wait and see.

Currently, support for 64-bit C++ is experimental. For example, I would not be surprised if IO on it works slower in some cases (it is necessary to test!). I invite you to join the testing and experimentations. Share your impressions in the comments!

Hi!

On Mar/19/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) we will host Codeforces Global Round 7.

It is the first round of a 2020 series of Codeforces Global Rounds. The rounds are open for everybody, the rating will be updated for everybody.

The prizes for this round:

• 30 best participants get a t-shirt.
• 20 t-shirts are randomly distributed among those with ranks between 31 and 500, inclusive.

The prizes for the 6-round series in 2020:

• In each round top-100 participants get points according to the table.
• The final result for each participant is equal to the sum of points he gets in the four rounds he placed the highest.
• The best 20 participants over all series get sweatshirts and place certificates.

The problems of this round were developed by isaf27 and me. Thanks to the testers mohammedehab2002, taran_1407, Aleks5d, Endagorion, 74TrAkToR, HIR180, dlwocks31,ToTheMoon, coyorkdow, Tzak, DomiKo, JustasLe, Hyado, Nemo, Howadji, Jatana, and (language corrector!) caoash.

Thanks to XTX, which in 2020 supported the global rounds initiative!

Good luck!

UPD: Score distribution: 500 1000 1000 (1000-1000) 2500 (2000-1500) 4000

UPD: Editorial!

Hi!

Codeforces round #628 (vintage Codeforces round #2) will take place on Mar/14/2020 17:35 (Moscow time). It's rated for the second division, but, as usual, first division participants can take part out of competition.

The problems were created by me. I'd like to thank, and orz, antontrygubO_o for coordinating the round; ramchandra, pajenegod, aryanc403, taran_1407, Kuroni, mcdx9524, dorijanlendvaj, Andreasyan, 300iq, zoooma13, Osama_Alkhodairy, Mohammad_Yasser, and TripleM5da (special shout-out) for testing the round; and of course MikeMirzayanov for the great codeforces and polygon platforms.

You'll be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

UPD: the scoring distribution will be 500-750-1250-1750-2500-2750.

UPD: the editorial is out.

UPD: congratulations to the winners!

Div.1:-

1. tmwilliamlin168
2. jqdai0815
3. Um_nik
4. imeimi
5. HIR180

Div.2:-

1. davooddkareshki
2. rainboy
3. PouyaNavid
4. _Lucien
5. socho

Good luck & Have fun!

UPD: Pay attention to the changed start time of the competition.

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Hello! Codeforces Round 627 (Div. 3) will start at Mar/12/2020 16:05 (Moscow time). You will be offered 6 or 7 problems (or 8) with expected difficulties to compose an interesting competition for participants with ratings up to 1600. However, all of you who wish to take part and have rating 1600 or higher, can register for the round unofficially.

The round will be hosted by rules of educational rounds (extended ACM-ICPC). Thus, during the round, solutions will be judged on preliminary tests, and after the round it will be a 12-hour phase of open hacks. I tried to make strong tests — just like you will be upset if many solutions fail after the contest is over.

You will be given 6 or 7 (or 8) problems and 2 hours to solve them.

Note that the penalty for the wrong submission in this round (and the following Div. 3 rounds) is 10 minutes.

Remember that only the trusted participants of the third division will be included in the official standings table. As it is written by link, this is a compulsory measure for combating unsporting behavior. To qualify as a trusted participants of the third division, you must:

• take part in at least two rated rounds (and solve at least one problem in each of them),
• do not have a point of 1900 or higher in the rating.

Regardless of whether you are a trusted participant of the third division or not, if your rating is less than 1600, then the round will be rated for you.

Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for the platform, help with ideas for problems and for coordination of my work. Thanks to my good friends Daria nooinenoojno Stepanova, Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Maksim Neon Mescheryakov and Ivan BledDest Androsov for help in round preparation and testing the round.

Good luck!

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Thanks to Artem Rox Plotkin and Dmitrii _overrated_ Umnov for help with testing the round!

UPD2: Editorial is published!

Hello Codeforces!

On Mar/09/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 83 (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 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!

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

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

UPD: Editorial is out

Hello!

Right now happens the first tour of the Open Olympiad in Informatics, and tomorrow will be the second one. This contest is prepared by Moscow Olympiad Scientific Committee that you may know by Moscow Team Olympiad, Moscow Olympiad for Young Students and Metropolises Olympiad (rounds 327, 342, 345, 376, 401, 433, 441, 466, 469, 507, 516, 541, 545, 567, 583, 594, 622).

Open Olympiad consists of the most interesting and hard problems that are proposed by a wide community of authors, so we decided to conduct a Codeforces regular round based on it, which will happen on Mar/07/2020 12:35 (Moscow time) and will be based on both days of the Olympiad. Each division will have 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them.

We kindly ask all the community members that are going to participate in the competition to show sportsmanship by not trying to cheat in any manner, in particular, by trying to figure out problem statements from the onsite participants. If you end up knowing some of the problems of Moscow Open Olympiad (by participating in it, from some of the onsite contestants or in any other way), please do not participate in the round. We also ask onsite contestants to not discuss problems in public. Failure to comply with any of the rules above may result in a disqualification.

Problems of this competition were prepared by meshanya, cdkrot, wrg0ababd, vintage_Vlad_Makeev, DebNatkh, diko, voidmax, okwedook, ch_egor, V--o_o--V, Sender, grphil, mingaleg, KiKoS, Endagorion, budalnik guided by cdkrot, ch_egor, vintage_Vlad_Makeev, GlebsHP, Zlobober and Helen Andreeva.

Problems for second division were prepared by vintage_Vlad_Makeev, ch_egor and MikeMirzayanov, to who we also want to say thanks for the Codeforces and Polygon systems.

Good luck everybody!

UPD1:

The scoring distribution for both divisions is standard: 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2000 — 2500 — 3000

Due to the official competition source codes of other participants will not be available for an hour after the end of the round.

UPD2: Editorial

UPD3: Winners!

Div. 1:

1. zhouyuyang
2. Egor
3. Rewinding
4. mayaohua2003
5. gtrhetr

Div. 2:

1. Tutituti
2. autoint
3. Froggay
4. WWLDX
5. GMaster

Hello Codeforces!

You may know that the crowdfunding campaign on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Codeforces is in full swing! I am pleased to inform you that the Reply Code Challenge not only prepare a great competition but also supported Codeforces, which means all of us! Thanks!

Please pay attention to the information below. I am sure that this is a great chance to compete.

And here is the message from the Reply Code Challenge:

Hello Codeforces!

We're glad to invite you to the upcoming Reply Code Challenge, on 12 March. It's a free online team-based challenge and you can choose between:

• Standard Edition: designed for university students and professionals.
• Teen Edition: designed for students aged 14 to 19.

Great prizes are waiting for the winning teams:

• Standard Edition: each member of the winning team will win a Mac Book Pro™ 16’’. Each member of the second and third place team will receive Apple Watch Series 5™ and Apple Air-pods Pro™
• Teen Edition: 5.000€ for the first team in the leader board, 2.000€ for the second and 1.000€ for the third place team.

When&Where?

Online at challenges.reply.com on March 12th from 4.30pm to 8.30pm CET. To play you must form a team by March 11th.

Follow us on our Telegram Channel, WIP but ready soon for the Challenge: https://t.me/replychallenges