Hello Codeforces o(≧∇≦o) I'm glad to introduce you to Codeforces Round 616 (Div. 1) and Codeforces Round 616 (Div. 2), which will take place on Feb/02/2020 17:05 (Moscow time).

Each division will contain 6 problems, and you will have 2.5 hours to solve them. There might be interactive problems, feel free to learn about them here. The problems were created by 265918, Ari, Kuroni, gamegame, and hugopm.

Now, here are some people I would love to mention:

• Thank you isaf27 for being a super helpful, diligent, and humorous coordinator ヽ(〃･ω･)ﾉ

• Thanks to McDic, nvmdava, dorijanlendvaj, antontrygubO_o, sdssudhu, and farmersrice for helping with the preparation of the tasks.

• Thanks to Sofie_Ever, mcfr, MathisHammel, thenymphsofdelphi, neko_nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Endagorion, bjn, Capricornmean, xuanquang1999, Jefe, low_, ngkan, pandourson, mth1908, toshinaritong, EPN, zscoder, minhducsun2002, I_love_Michel_Sardou, 300iq, Noam527, AkiLotus, paquechee, and MofK for testing and giving feedback as well as suggestions to the rounds.

• Thanks to MikeMirzayanov for the wonderful Codeforces and Polygon systems that made this contest possible.

The statements were made as clear as possible for your best experiences. Moreover, we sneakily included a theme in the problemset, and each problem will have an easter egg that is the clue to the theme. If you have AC'd every problem, be sure to search for the theme（*´▽｀*)

Additionally, most of us are in a Discord server dedicated to competitive programming called "AC" (this is also the motto of this contest). We will be on the server after the contest to discuss the problems with you. You can find the server here!

I wish you all have good luck and high ratings ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

UPD1: Here is the score distribution:

• Div. 2: 500 1000 1500 2000 2750 3000

• Div. 1: 500 1000 1750 2500 3000 3250

UPD2: Here is the editorial, including easter egg solutions!

UPD3: Thank you everyone for participating :D Here are the final standings:

Div. 1:

1. tourist

2. fateice

3. ksun48

4. Um_nik

5. WZYYN

Div. 2:

1. IZONE

2. Infoshoc

3. CouponKaka-ChutteNahiHai

4. lzh12139

5. liqing

Thank you everyone and I hope to see you again!

Hello Codeforces!

On Jan/29/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 81 (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 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:

Hi Codeforces!

As a special prize for the Educational Round 81, we would like to invite the top participants to take part in our Hello Muscat ICPC Programming Bootcamp, which will take place in Oman, from March 19 to March 25, 2020. The prize will cover the participation fee, accommodation, and half-board meals for the entire duration of the bootcamp (except flights)!

There are three requirements to satisfy:

• You took part in at least 10 rated contests on Codeforces
• Your max rating should be less than 2400
• You should be eligible for ICPC and/or IOI 2020+

Good luck to everyone!

We are also excited to announce that we are working with our partners to provide free participation (flights not included) for the teams going to the ICPC World Finals 2020, which will take place in Moscow. If you and your team qualified for the Finals, fill out the form below to see if you’re eligible.

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

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

UPD: Editorial is out

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Hello! Codeforces Round 615 (Div. 3) will start at Jan/22/2020 17:35 (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!

I also would like to say that participants who will submit wrong solutions on purpose and hack them afterwards (example) will not be shown in the hacking leaders table.

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This is unusual, but good news! Our friends at Harbour.Space have a message for you:

Hi Codeforces!

As a special prize for the Codeforces Round #615, we would like to invite the top 3 participants to take part in our Hello Muscat ICPC Programming Bootcamp, which will take place in Oman, from March 19 to March 25, 2020. The prize will cover the participation fee, accommodation, and half-board meals for the entire duration of the bootcamp (except flights)!

There are three requirements to satisfy:

• You took part in at least 10 rated contests on Codeforces
• Your max rating should be less than 1900
• You should be eligible for ICPC and/or IOI 2020+

So unofficial participants are also in a game (if meet the requirements).

Good luck to everyone!

UPD: I want to thank Artem Rox Plotkin and Dmitrii _overrated_ Umnov for invaluable help with the round preparation!

UPD2: Editorial is published!

"Can you hear me?"

"Vanessa...?"

Hello Codeforces!

We are here to invite you to Codeforces Round #614 (Div. 1) and Codeforces Round #614 (Div. 2), which will take place at Jan/19/2020 16:35 (Moscow time). The round is rated for both divisions.

This is our first round including Div.1 parts, hopefully you'll find the problems interesting. ;)

This round is themed based on the Rayark Inc.'s rhythm game, "Cytus II". You are about to help our characters in various problems, whether inside or outside of the virtual Internet! Also, feel free to listen to the music tracks I've chosen from the game for each problem (and later, editorial!). ;)

Each division will be given 6 problems to solve in 2 hours. The round's problems were prepared by Xuan-Quang xuanquang1999 D. Nguyen, Duy-Bach AkiLotus Le and Tuan-Dung low_ To.

Interactive problem(s) might be found in this round. Learn about them here.

We also want to thanks our friends for helping this contest being possible:

• Our dear Codeforces coordinator Dmitry cdkrot Sayutin for reviewing our problems, and roasting a whole bunch of them as well. :D
• Grigory vintage_Vlad_Makeev Reznikov, Quang-Minh MofK D. Nguyen, Yufan ouuan You and Sulfox for helping us in preparing and adjusting difficulties of a few problems.
• Anton antontrygubO_o Trygub, Duc-Trung Kuroni D. Dang and Duy-Thuc leduythuc Le for being our testers.

Last but not least, I want to give a huge appreciation to MikeMirzayanov for the awesome Codeforces and Polygon platform, which makes this contest possible.

Wish everyone good luck and high rating!

UPD1: Editorial is available here.

UPD2: Many more testers helped us in this round! Huge thanks to Kevin ksun48 Sun, Andrew ecnerwala He, Aydar aid Sayranov, Nikolay KAN Kalinin, Oleg Mustang98 Vallas, Mohammed mohammedehab2002 Ehab, Artem Rox Plotkin, Mingming Nero Zhang, Darko Aleksic, Ilya IlyaCk Porublyov, NatInTheHat and NIWIS!

UPD3: Score distribution:

• Div. 1: 500-750-1250-1750-2250-2750
• Div. 2: 500-750-1250-1500-2000-2500

UPD4: True editorial is available here!

UPD5: The contest is over. Thanks for participating, and here are the winners:

• Div. 1:

1. Um_nik (first to solve F)
2. tourist (first to solve A, B, D and E)
3. Benq
4. HIR180
5. jiangly
6. TLE
7. AprilGrimoire
8. Golovanov399
9. cz_xuyixuan
10. fateice

• Div. 2:

1. DestinyFucker9000 (solved all Div.2 problems!)
2. about
3. Isaunoya
4. espr1t
5. Nephren
6. the_happy_camel
7. changruinian2020
8. Agarifighter
9. Small_Pax
10. TaeHo0o00o0N

Also, as the direct setter of Div1B/Div2D, I sincerely apologized for the weak testsets. I must admit, I underperformed this time, and might cause some of you inconvenience. Hope to see you guys another time with a better contest.

Hello Codeforces!

On Jan/14/2020 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 80 (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 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:

Hi Codeforces!

As a special prize for the Educational Round 80, we would like to invite the top 3 participants to take part in our Hello Muscat ICPC Programming Bootcamp, which will take place in Oman, from March 19 to March 25, 2020. The prize will cover the participation fee, accommodation, and half-board meals for the entire duration of the bootcamp (except flights)!

There are three requirements to satisfy:

• You took part in at least 10 rated contests on Codeforces
• Your max rating should be less than 2400
• You should be eligible for ICPC and/or IOI 2020+

Good luck to everyone!

Note: If you really want to participate, but cannot afford the participation fee, get in touch with us to request a supporting letter for you to show to your university, employer, or local companies. With this letter, you are opening the possibility of being sponsored by them to attend the bootcamp.

Please fill out this form and we’ll send you the support letter within 3 days!

Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to the best hackers:

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

UPD: The editorial is out

Hello, Codeforces.

Sorry, but for a reason independent of Codeforces, we are forced to cancel the round. It was planned as a mirror of an onsite-olympiad, but suddenly it turned out that this would not work.

We will try our best to please you with other rounds. Stay tuned!

The round Educational Codeforces Round 80 (Rated for Div. 2) will start on Jan/14/2020 17:35 (Moscow time). Hope to see you as a participant!

— MikeMirzayanov

Hello Codeforces!

We are glad to invite you to Codeforces Round 613 (Div. 2), which will be held on Jan/10/2020 17:05 (Moscow time). The round is rated for Div. 2 contestants. There will be six problems with a duration of 2:15

The problems were prepared by me, mohammedehab2002, TripleM5da, and MikeMirzayanov.

I'd like to thank awoo for coordinating the round, dorijanlendvaj, aryanc403, Ari, nooinenoojno, defolaut, Pavlova, mahmoudbadawy, zoooma13, Mohammad_Yasser, Rox, and BledDest for the invaluable testing, and MikeMirzayanov for great Codeforces and Polygon systems.

Good luck!

UPD1: We decided to add one more problem and extend the duration to 2:15 to make the contest more balanced.

UPD2: Score distribution: 500-1000-1250-1750-2250-3000

UPD3: Editorial is out.

UPD4: Thanks for participating! Congratulations to the winners:

Div. 1 (unofficial) participants

1. Benq
2. tzuyu_chou
3. Andreikkaa
4. neal
5. mango_lassi

Div. 2 participants

1. fmota
2. FSTForces
3. yet_another_ATS
4. iwasa
5. KazanFederalU

Hello everybody!

Now the winter SIS (Summer Informatics School) is taking place, and we, as part of the parallel A*+ with its teachers, have prepared a complete Codeforces Round.

The round will happen at Jan/05/2020 17:05 (Moscow time) and will last for 2 hours. There will be 6 problems in each division.

The tasks of the round were invented and prepared by ismagilov.code, devid, Volkov_Ivan, Jatana, karasek, polinarria, cookiedoth, AlesyaIvanova, KhB, AliceG, D.Pavlenko, VFeafanov, LordVoIdebug, forestryks, Ilistratov, seiko.iwasawa, senjougaharin, Drozd_off under the guidance of teachers PavelKunyavskiy, VArtem, meshanya, budalnik.

Thanks aneesh2312 MarcosK Stepavly Infinity25 tourist antontrygubO_o isaf27 fedoseev.timofey, Kurpilyansky, vintage_Vlad_Makeev for testing!

And, of course, thanks to MikeMirzayanov for great systems Codeforces and Polygon, and 300iq for round coordination.

Good luck everybody!

UPD:

In problem E an error was made in the intended solution, an overflow of long type while calculating the answer. The first test, on which it happened, reached 4 participants (ainta aid Um_nik ecnerwala), among who two passed the pretests, and two others did not, though they should have. In automatic mode, it is not possible to test so that both answers are accepted, because the overflow changes the tests because of the way the requests are encrypted. So, we decided to test two pretest solutions on the old set of tests and the rest on the new one. As a result, three of the solutions passed the tests (congratulations!), and one received WA80 on the 17th answer inside the test, which is clearly not related to the overflow problems. Only the solution that takes into account the overflow problem can be used in upsolving.

UPD: Editorial!

Hello, Codeforces!

We are thrilled to announce the second instalment of our Hello Muscat ICPC Programming Bootcamp, organized by Harbour.Space University in collaboration with Codeforces, ITMO University, GUtech University, and our local partner: Phaze Ventures. The Bootcamp’s main sponsor is British Petroleum (BP), supporting Oman’s national priorities: youth development, economic diversification and job creation.

We are also excited to let you know that Codeforces has become the main collaborator of Harbour.Space for our programming bootcamp series, and will be in charge of all the educational content, from contests to problem analysis and lectures, bringing the online legacy of the platform to a unique offline experience.

Hello Muscat will take place during 19 – 25 March 2020 and will feature ICPC world champions and finalists as well as legendary names from the field of competitive programming:

Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov, Nikolai KAN Kalinin, Andrey andrewzta Stankevich, Artem VArtem Vasilyev, Mikhail darnley Dvorkin, and more coaches to be announced soon!

The bootcamp will be available to teams of different skill levels, separated by two divisions of difficulty:

• Division B: Designed to help teams prepare for the next season of ICPC regional competitions.
• Division C: Designed for newcomers to the world of ICPC competitive programming. This division is the perfect starting point for those with a handle on the basics but who want to compete in future competitions and possible regionals.

Single participants and teams must register before January 30th to receive the 15% off Early Bird Discount.
Universities and individual participants that took part in our previous bootcamps and who register for this edition will receive the 20% off Loyalty Discount.

That’s all from us. Head over to our webpage to find out more, and see you in Muscat!