Hi everybody!

These days Moscow is conducting the 4th International Olympiad of Metropolises that is an international competition for high school students from biggest cities and capitals all around the world. One of the disciplines of the competition is informatics. Rounds of the competition were prepared by the jury members invited from St. Petersburg, Minsk, Belgrade and Moscow olympiad scientific committee which you may know by Moscow team Olympiad, Open Olympiad in Informatics and Moscow Olympiad for young students (rounds 327, 342, 345, 376, 401, 433, 441, 466, 469, 507, 516, 541, 545, 567).

Scientific Committee of the olympiad consists of: Chmel_Tolstiy, Jelena Hadži-Purić, Elena Andreeva, Zlobober, GlebsHP, andrewzta, meshanya.

The problems were developed by isaf27, cdkrot, manoprenko, GoToCoding, ch_egor, vintage_Vlad_Makeev, voidmax, grphil, malcolm under the guidance of GlebsHP and Zlobober.

Problems were adapted for codeforces by vintage_Vlad_Makeev and cdkrot, also thanks for MikeMirzayanov for systems codeforces and polygon, which was used to prepare problems of this olympiad. Also, thanks LHiC, voidmax and wrg0ababd for testing!

Good luck and high ratings for everybody!

Round will happen on Sep/04/2019 12:05 (Moscow time) and will last for two and half hours.

The round will consist of 8 problems and will be combined for both divisions. The round is rated for all participants.

P.S. We kindly ask everybody who knows problems of an onsite event not to participate in a round and not to discuss them in public, as this may be a subject for disqualification.

UPD1: Winners!

1. jqdai0815
2. gina0605
3. never_giveup
4. Radewoosh
5. 244mhq
6. cz_yixuanxu
7. ko_osaga
8. mango_lassi
9. GoForIt
10. ksun48

Editorial will be published soon.

UPD2: Editorial

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Hello! Codeforces Round 582 (Div. 3) will start at Aug/30/2019 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 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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UPD: Thanks to Artem Rox Plotkin for testing the round!

UPD2: Editorial is published!

Hello Codeforces!

I would like to invite you to Manthan, Codefest'19, which will take place on Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 8:05 PM IST. This is a combined Div. 1 + Div. 2 round and is rated for participants from both divisions.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT (BHU) is conducting Codefest from 23rd August — 25th August. Manthan, the algorithmic programming contest under the banner of Codefest, is being held as a special Codeforces round. The round follows regular Codeforces rules.

All problems in this round were created and prepared by drastogi21, _shanky, Enigma27, _hiccup, KAN and me (hitman623).

A lot of thanks to KAN, 300iq, vintage_Vlad_Makeev, _overrated_, Rox for the testing and valuable comments, and to MikeMirzayanov for the awesome Codeforces and Polygon platforms!

Prizes -

• 1st place — INR 25,000

• 2nd place — INR 18,000

• 3rd place — INR 12,000

• 1st place in India — INR 6,000

• 1st place in IIT(BHU) — INR 3,000

• 1st place among freshers (1st/2nd Year) of IIT(BHU) — INR 1,000

• Codeforces T-shirts to the participants who will be the first to solve each problem.

Participants will be offered 8 problems and 2 hours to solve them. As usual, the scoring distribution will be announced later.

Hope you guys enjoy the contest! See you on the leaderboard!

UPD: The scoring is 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2000 — 2250 — 2500 — 3000 — 3750

UPD: The contest has ended. Congratulations to the winners.

1. tourist

2. Um_nik

3. jqdai0815

First place in India: cerberus97

Following are the participants who were the first to solve each problem and have won a Codeforces T-shirt. Congrats!

A. IgorI

B. Geothermal

C. icecuber

D. ILoLy

E. nocriz

F. GoGooLi

G. jqdai0815

H. tourist

UPD: We decided to give the 8th T-shirt to IgorI for problem A. Congrats!

The editorial has been published.

Hope to see you next year!

Hello Codeforces!

On Aug/22/2019 17:35 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 71 (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 participants!

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

Hello Codeforces,

We are opening a new campus in Bangkok, Thailand!

We are delighted to introduce a strategic partnership between Harbour.Space University and the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce – a collaborative effort powered by B.Grimm.

After 3 years of successfully disrupting education in Barcelona, with a unique educational model founded on active learning in entrepreneurship, technology, and design, as well as the most extraordinary academic and professional community on the planet to show for it, we are ready to bring the revolution to our new campus in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Unique opportunities reserved for the most brilliant students from anywhere in the world, our scholarships are more than financial support – they are portals from your past to your future.

If you are graduating or have already completed a bachelor's degree, we are waiting for your applications for fully-funded Master's degree scholarships by the link below.

Congratulations to the winners:

467 successful hacks and 688 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

UPD: Editorial is out

Hello! Codeforces Round 581 (Div. 2) will start on Aug/20/2019 17:35 (Moscow time). The round is rated for everyone whose rating isn't greater than 2099.

The problems were invented and prepared for you by rotavirus, rotavirus and rotavirus. Thanks to Anton arsijo Tsypko for the coordinating the round. Thanks to the testers for testing and giving advice:

• Ariel Ari Garcia;
• Anton antontrygubO_o Trygub;
• Mikhail awoo Piklyaev;
• Mriganka Basu mbrc Roy Chowdhury;
• Tiago Figueiredo tfg Gonçalves;
• Noam Noam527 Gutterman;
• Stefan stefdasca Dascalescu;
• Khaleel Adhami Al-Adhami;
• Rahul Rahul Goswami;
• Mohamed Bakry Ahmed;
• an incognito tester;
• Bencil BencilSharpeniro Sharpeniro;
• Luca average_frog_enjoyer Seritan;
• Alexey dalex Dergunov;
• Zain Zain Alabedeen Ali.
• gamegame

You will be given 5 problems and 2 hours to solve them. The score distribution will be announced later is 500-750-1250-(1500+750)-2500.

The round is over! Congratulations to the winners:
1. 79brue
2. sinus_070
3. baluteshih
4. weishenme
5. shahaliali1382

An editorial.

Hello again, Codeforces!

I am glad to invite you to Codeforces Round 580, which will take place on Aug/18/2019 16:45 (Moscow time). Round will be rated for both divisions.

All problems in this round were created and prepared by me, antontrygubO_o. I tried to make them interesting and hope that you will enjoy them!

A lot of thanks to arsijo for the excellent coordination of the round, 244mhq, gepardo, danya.smelskiy, reeWorld, Xellos, Mediocrity, I_love_tigersugar, KAN for the testing and valuable comments, and to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for the amazing platforms Codeforces и Polygon.

Participants in each division will be offered 6 problems and 2 hours 10 minutes to solve them. As usual, I strongly recommend reading statements of all problems!

I wish you good luck and high rating!

UPD1:

Scoring distribution of Div $$$2$$$ round: 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 1750 — 2250 — 3000

Scoring distribution of Div $$$1$$$ round: 500 — 750 — 1250 — 2000 — 2500 — 3000

UPD2:Editorial

UPD3 Congrats to winners!

Div 1:

1. TLE

2. Um_nik

3. mnbvmar

4. Benq

5. Rewinding

Div 2:

1. kkkkk11

2. sucuk

3. ujrepacul

4. zzffxx

5. VahitGuetta

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Hello! Codeforces Round 579 (Div. 3) will start at Aug/13/2019 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 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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UPD: Editorial is published!

안녕하세요, 코드포스! (Hello, Codeforces!)

We're glad to introduce you to Codeforces Round 578 (Div. 2), which will start at Aug/11/2019 15:35 (Moscow time). The round is rated for Div. 2 participants.

You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them. The score distribution will be announced later.

The problems are prepared by nong and me.

Thanks to pllk, Learner99, Rox, mohammedehab2002, cheetose, jh05013, rkm0959, edenooo, and alex9801 for testing the round. We would also like to specially thank to KAN and arsijo for coordinating the round, and of course, MikeMirzayanov for Codeforces and Polygon platform.

This is our very first round, so I hope you enjoy it a lot!

UPD: The scoring distribution is 500 — 1000 — 1250 — 2000 — 2000 — 2500

UPD2: The contest is finished. Thanks for joining us! Here's the editorial.

UPD3: Congratulations to the winners!

Div. 2

1: gamegamewillwinioi2021

2: oliviahye

3: cnoi

4: 2om_neek

5: Tropical_maid

Unofficial Div. 1

1: kcm1700

2: uwi

3: square1001

4: kmjp

5: KrK

Dear friends!

We're thrilled to invite you to the two great events which will be held in Turkey for the first time ever!

ICPC is delighted to announce the First National Programming Contest in Turkey, organized by inzva in collaboration with the Middle East Technical University (METU) to be held on September 13-15, 2019.

We’re inviting university teams across Turkey to participate in the national contest in Beykoz Kundura, Istanbul — completely free of charge — thanks to the ICPC local partner — inzva, a non-profit community focused on artificial intelligence and algorithm, supported by BEV — an Education Foundation for the Digital Native Generation.

Top ten teams qualifying in this contest can then participate in the Southerneastern Europe Regional Contest, and will be financially supported for this purpose. The winner teams of the Southern Europe Regional Contest are eligible to participate at the ICPC Moscow 2020 World Finals!

Also, this weekend on September 14 in Istanbul will be held the Annual ICPC Alumni Reunion Dinner.

It is the first ICPC Alumni event happening in Southeastern European Region, and we will be extremely honored to welcome you and your colleagues/classmates/coaches on this special day. Please feel free to extend this invitation to your guests.

ICPC Alumni Reunion Dinner will be held on Saturday, September 14, 2019, at Beykoz Shoe Factory, Yaliköy Mah. Süreyya İlmen Cad. No:1/1 Beykoz, Istanbul. There will be a reception that begins at 4pm, with dinner to follow at 5pm. Please feel free to extend this invitation to your guests.

This event is free of charge but requires reservation before September 1, 2019. Please be sure to RSVP via this form to secure your place:

In addition to this being a fun reunion for local ICPC participants, we will be recognizing the accomplishments of various ICPC volunteers who make the show happen each year. ICPC Executive Director Bill Poucher will be in attendance, and various other judges, staff, and coaches. We would be honored if you can make it as well, and partake in the festivities.

We are unfortunately unable to welcome all outside guests but have done our best to invite as many ICPC Alumni as possible, please feel free to extend this invitation to any other finalists/regional participants that you know to be in the area. You can also send their names and contact info to [email protected] so that we can add them to the invitation list. Once registered — you’ll receive official confirmation of your personal invitation, as well as all travel details.

Looking forward to meeting you in Turkey!