Traditionally, SnarkNews runs two [New Year Contests](https://contest.yandex.com/newyear2017).↵
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The New Year Blitz Contest (Multiple Language Round) will start at **16:00 31.12.2016** and ends at **08:00 01.01.2017** Moscow Time. Contest will consist↵
of 9-15 problems. Some of those problems are based on problems, used at official or training contests in 2015. Contest rules are based on the ACM system with two important modifications.↵
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1. Penalty time is calculated as **distance** between time of first successful submit for the contestant on this problem and **0:00:00 01.01.2017**, ↵
i.e. successful submissions at **23:50:00 31.12.2016** and at **0:10:00 01.01.2017** will both have penalty time 10 minutes (600 seconds).↵
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2. _Multiple Language Round_ rule: If for the first successful submit for the contestant on the some problem was used the programming language, which was never used↵
by this contestant in his previous first successful submits on other problems, contestant receives **language bonus**: his summary penalty time is decreased↵
by **100 minutes** (6000 seconds). Note that different implementations of the same language are counting as same language, i.e. Java 6 and Java 7 are both counted↵
as _Java_, C++ 32 bit and C++11 64 bit both as _C++_. Additionally, C and C++ are counted as _same_ programming language.↵
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Contest will be running on Yandex.Contest system. [Link for registration and participation](https://contest.yandex.com/newyear2017/contest/3642/enter/).↵
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13'th Prime New Year Contest will start at **0:00 30.12.2016** and finish at **23:59 10.01.2017** Moscow time.↵
Traditionally, Prime New Year Contest consists of problems, which were presented at team programming contests in 2016↵
and **never** solved on the contest. For the Prime New Year contest plain ACM rules are used.↵
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Idea of Prime Contest was first implemented by Andrey Lopatin and Nick Dourov at Summer Petrozavodsk training camp↵
at 2003; in Russian word "Prostoj" used in meanings "prime" and "easy", so, contest was called "Prostoj contest" but↵
was composed of extremelly hard problems, numbered with prime numbers (2,3,5 etc). Since then such a numeration↵
is traditionally used for contests, consisting of very hard problems only.↵
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Contest will be running on Yandex.Contest system. [Link for registration and participation](https://contest.yandex.com/newyear2017/contest/3641/enter/).↵
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Both contests have English statements.
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The New Year Blitz Contest (Multiple Language Round) will start at **16:00 31.12.2016** and ends at **08:00 01.01.2017** Moscow Time. Contest will consist↵
of 9-15 problems. Some of those problems are based on problems, used at official or training contests in 2015. Contest rules are based on the ACM system with two important modifications.↵
↵
1. Penalty time is calculated as **distance** between time of first successful submit for the contestant on this problem and **0:00:00 01.01.2017**, ↵
i.e. successful submissions at **23:50:00 31.12.2016** and at **0:10:00 01.01.2017** will both have penalty time 10 minutes (600 seconds).↵
↵
2. _Multiple Language Round_ rule: If for the first successful submit for the contestant on the some problem was used the programming language, which was never used↵
by this contestant in his previous first successful submits on other problems, contestant receives **language bonus**: his summary penalty time is decreased↵
by **100 minutes** (6000 seconds). Note that different implementations of the same language are counting as same language, i.e. Java 6 and Java 7 are both counted↵
as _Java_, C++ 32 bit and C++11 64 bit both as _C++_. Additionally, C and C++ are counted as _same_ programming language.↵
↵
Contest will be running on Yandex.Contest system. [Link for registration and participation](https://contest.yandex.com/newyear2017/contest/3642/enter/).↵
↵
13'th Prime New Year Contest will start at **0:00 30.12.2016** and finish at **23:59 10.01.2017** Moscow time.↵
Traditionally, Prime New Year Contest consists of problems, which were presented at team programming contests in 2016↵
and **never** solved on the contest. For the Prime New Year contest plain ACM rules are used.↵
↵
Idea of Prime Contest was first implemented by Andrey Lopatin and Nick Dourov at Summer Petrozavodsk training camp↵
at 2003; in Russian word "Prostoj" used in meanings "prime" and "easy", so, contest was called "Prostoj contest" but↵
was composed of extremelly hard problems, numbered with prime numbers (2,3,5 etc). Since then such a numeration↵
is traditionally used for contests, consisting of very hard problems only.↵
↵
Contest will be running on Yandex.Contest system. [Link for registration and participation](https://contest.yandex.com/newyear2017/contest/3641/enter/).↵
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Both contests have English statements.
