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By BledDest, 3 years ago, In English

1525A - Potion-making

Idea: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1525B - Permutation Sort

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Neon)

1525C - Robot Collisions

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (awoo)

1525D - Armchairs

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1525E - Assimilation IV

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1525F - Goblins And Gnomes

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

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By BledDest, history, 3 years ago, In English

First of all, I would like to thank all testers of the round: Um_nik, IlyaLos, Roms, nuipojaluista, Supermagzzz, Stepavly, hg333. Also huge thanks to co-authors of the contest: Neon, adedalic, vovuh and awoo.

I hope you enjoyed participating in the round!

Okay, now for the editorial itself:

1488A - От нуля до Y

Idea: BledDest, preparation: Neon

Tutorial

1488B - Удаление ПСП

Idea: BledDest, preparation: BledDest

Tutorial

1488C - Двое полицейских

Idea: vovuh, preparation: vovuh

Tutorial

1488D - Марафон решения задач

Idea: vovuh, preparation: awoo

Tutorial

1488E - Палиндромные пары

Idea: BledDest, preparation: awoo

Tutorial

1488F - Dogecoin

Idea: BledDest and Neon, preparation: Neon

Tutorial

1488G - Раскраска чисел

Idea: Neon, preparation: Neon

Tutorial

1488H - Построй из суффиксов

Idea: BledDest, preparation: awoo

Tutorial

1488I - Вторжение демонов

Idea: BledDest, preparation: BledDest

Tutorial

1488J - Цветочный магазин

Idea: BledDest, preparation: Neon and adedalic

Tutorial

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By BledDest, 3 years ago, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

First and foremost, we would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who entered and submitted their answers to the five Kotlin Heroes competitions which were held previously: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, and Episode 5: ICPC Round.

Ready to challenge yourself to do better? The Kotlin Heroes: Episode 6 competition will be hosted on the Codeforces platform on Mar/09/2021 17:35 (Moscow time). The contest will last 2 hours 30 minutes and will feature a set of problems from simple ones, designed to be solvable by anyone, to hard ones, to make it interesting for seasoned competitive programmers.

Prizes:

Top three winners will get prizes of $512, $256, and $128 respectively, top 50 will win a Kotlin Heroes t-shirt and an exclusive Kotlin sticker, competitors solving at least one problem will enter into a draw for one of 50 Kotlin Heroes t-shirts.

Registration is already open and available via the link. It will be available until the end of the round.

The round will again be held in accordance with a set of slightly modified ICPC rules:

  • The round is unrated.
  • The contest will have 9 problems of various levels of complexity.
  • You are only allowed to use Kotlin to solve these problems.
  • Participants are ranked according to the number of correctly solved problems. Ties are resolved based on the lowest total penalty time for all problems, which is computed as follows. For each solved problem, a penalty is set to the submission time of that problem (the time since the start of the contest). An extra penalty of 10 minutes is added for each failed submission on solved problems (i. e., if you never solve the problem, you will not be penalized for trying that problem). If two participants solved the same number of problems and scored the same penalty, then those of them who had previously made the last successful submission will be given an advantage in the distribution of prizes and gifts.

REGISTER →

If you are still new to Kotlin we have prepared a tutorial on competitive programming in Kotlin and Kotlin Heroes: Practice 6, where you can try to solve a few simple problems in Kotlin. The practice round is available by the link.

We wish you luck and hope you enjoy Kotlin.

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Announcement of Kotlin Heroes: Episode 6
Announcement of Kotlin Heroes: Practice 6
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By BledDest, 3 years ago, translation, In English

First of all, I would like to thank all testers of the round: elizarov, IlyaLos, nuipojaluista, hg333, nooinenoojno, winger, neko_nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, kort0n, hos.lyric and Roms. Also huge thanks to co-authors of the contest: Neon, adedalic, vovuh and awoo.

I hope you enjoyed participating in the round!

Okay, now for the editorial itself:

1431A - Selling Hamburgers

Idea: BledDest, preparation: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1431B - Polycarp and the Language of Gods

Idea: BledDest, preparation: awoo

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1431C - Black Friday

Idea: Neon, preparation: Neon and awoo

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1431D - Used Markers

Idea: BledDest, preparation: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1431E - Chess Match

Idea: BledDest, preparation: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1431F - Neural Network Problem

Idea: vovuh, preparation: vovuh

Tutorial
Solution (vovuh)

1431G - Number Deletion Game

Idea: BledDest, preparation: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1431H - Rogue-like Game

Idea: BledDest, preparation: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1431I - Cyclic Shifts

Idea: Neon, preparation: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

1431J - Zero-XOR Array

Idea: Neon, preparation: Neon and adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

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By BledDest, history, 3 years ago, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

First and foremost, we would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who entered and submitted their answers to the first, second, third, and fourth Kotlin Heroes competitions which were held previously: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3 and Episode 4.

Ready to challenge yourself to do better? The Kotlin Heroes 5: ICPC Round competition will be hosted on the Codeforces platform on Nov/12/2020 17:35 (Moscow time). The contest will last 2 hours 30 minutes and will feature a set of problems from simple ones, designed to be solvable by anyone, to hard ones, to make it interesting for seasoned competitive programmers.

Prizes:

Top three winners will get prizes of $512, $256, and $128 respectively, top 50 will win a Kotlin Heroes t-shirt and an exclusive Kotlin sticker, competitors solving at least one problem will enter into a draw for one of 50 Kotlin Heroes t-shirts.

Everyone who takes part in this round will get an electronic Participation Certificate.

There is also a special recognition prize from the ICPC: ICPC- experience, an invitation to the Moscow World Finals 2021, all-inclusive on-site (hotel, meals, ceremonies, and swag, are included; visa, flights, transportation to the contest location is not).

Registration is already open and available via the link. It will be available until the end of the round.

The round will again be held in accordance with a set of slightly modified ICPC rules:

  • The round is unrated.
  • The contest will have 9 problems of various levels of complexity.
  • You are only allowed to use Kotlin to solve these problems.
  • Participants are ranked according to the number of correctly solved problems. Ties are resolved based on the lowest total penalty time for all problems, which is computed as follows. For each solved problem, a penalty is set to the submission time of that problem (the time since the start of the contest). An extra penalty of 10 minutes is added for each failed submission on solved problems (i. e., if you never solve the problem, you will not be penalized for trying that problem). If two participants solved the same number of problems and scored the same penalty, then those of them who had previously made the last successful submission will be given an advantage in the distribution of prizes and gifts.

REGISTER →

If you are still new to Kotlin we have prepared a tutorial on competitive programming in Kotlin and Kotlin Heroes 5: ICPC Round (Practice), where you can try to solve a few simple problems in Kotlin. All the solutions are open, which means that you can look at the solution even if you haven't solved the problem yet. The practice round is available by the link.

We wish you luck and hope you enjoy Kotlin.

UPD: The editorial can be found here.

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By BledDest, 4 years ago, In English

1430A - Number of Apartments

Idea: fcspartakm

Tutorial
Solution (fcspartakm)

1430B - Barrels

Idea: fcspartakm

Tutorial
Solution (fcspartakm)

1430C - Numbers on Whiteboard

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (fcspartakm)

1430D - String Deletion

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

1430E - String Reversal

Idea: fcspartakm

Tutorial
Solution (fcspartakm)

1430F - Realistic Gameplay

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1430G - Yet Another DAG Problem

Idea: BledDest

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

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By BledDest, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On Oct/11/2020 12:05 (Moscow time) Educational Codeforces Round 96 (Rated for Div. 2) will start. Note that the start time is unusual.

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 Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Alex fcspartakm Frolov and me. Also huge thanks to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for great systems Polygon and Codeforces.

Good luck to all the participants!

UPD: The editorial is here.

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 WZYYN 7 186
2 137_345_2814 7 194
3 jiangly 7 200
4 LayCurse 7 203
5 dreamoon_love_AA 7 258

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 ViciousCoder 100:-9
2 ManasG 45:-13
3 Valera_Grinenko 57:-40
4 AhmadEbtihal 36:-3
5 fstzyh 38:-9

858 successful hacks and 2258 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A sevlll777 0:01
B jkchen 0:03
C alireza_kaviani 0:03
D jkchen 0:12
E MagicSpark 0:05
F LayCurse 0:36
G MagicSpark 0:36

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By BledDest, 4 years ago, In English

First of all, I would like to thank all of the testers: elizarov, darnley, IlyaLos, _overrated_, SergeyMelnikov, winger, FieryPhoenix, infinitepro, Sho, GrandDaddy, bfs.07, spookywooky. Also huge thanks to co-authors of the contest: MikeMirzayanov, Neon, Roms, adedalic, vovuh and awoo.

I hope you enjoyed participating in the round!

Okay, now for the editorial itself:

1346A - Color Revolution

Idea: BledDest, preparation: awoo

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1346B - Boot Camp

Idea: BledDest, preparation: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1346C - Spring Cleaning

Idea: vovuh, preparation: vovuh

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1346D - Constructing the Dungeon

Idea: MikeMirzayanov, preparation: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1346E - Magic Tricks

Idea: BledDest, preparation: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1346F - Dune II: Battle For Arrakis

Idea: vovuh, preparation: vovuh

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1346G - Two IP Cameras

Idea: adedalic, preparation: adedalic

Tutorial
Solution (elizarov)

1346H - Game with Segments

Idea: Roms, preparation: Roms

Tutorial
Solution (tourist)

1346I - Pac-Man 2.0

Idea: Neon and BledDest, preparation: Neon

Tutorial
Solution (Ne0n25)

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By BledDest, 4 years ago, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

First and foremost, we would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who entered and submitted their answers to the first, second and third Kotlin Heroes competitions which were held previously. Congratulations to the top 3 winners:

Episode 1

  1. Petr
  2. ecnerwala
  3. eatmore

Episode 2

  1. tourist
  2. eatmore
  3. Benq

Episode 3

  1. Egor
  2. tourist
  3. Benq

Ready to challenge yourself to do better? The fourth "Kotlin Heroes" competition will be hosted on the Codeforces platform on May/29/2020 17:35 (Moscow time). The contest will last 2 hours 30 minutes and will feature a set of problems from simple ones, designed to be solvable by anyone, to hard ones, to make it interesting for seasoned competitive programmers. Top three winners will get prizes of $512, $256, and $128 respectively, top 50 will win a Kotlin Heroes t-shirt and an exclusive Kotlin sticker, competitors solving at least one problem will enter into a draw for one of 50 Kotlin Heroes t-shirts.

Registration is already open and available via the link. It will be available until the end of the round.

The round will again be held in accordance with a set of slightly modified ICPC rules:

  • The round is unrated.
  • The contest will have 9 problems of various levels of complexity.
  • You are only allowed to use Kotlin to solve these problems.
  • Participants are ranked according to the number of correctly solved problems. Ties are resolved based on the lowest total penalty time for all problems, which is computed as follows. For each solved problem, a penalty is set to the submission time of that problem (the time since the start of the contest). An extra penalty of 10 minutes is added for each failed submission on solved problems (i.e., if you never solve the problem, you will not be penalized for trying that problem). If two participants solved the same number of problems and scored the same penalty, then those of them who had previously made the last successful submission will be given an advantage in the distribution of prizes and gifts.

REGISTER →

If you are still new to Kotlin we have prepared a tutorial on competitive programming in Kotlin and a practice round, where you can try to solve a few simple problems in Kotlin. All the solutions are open, which means that you can look at the solution even if you haven't solved the problem yet. The practice round is available by the link.

We wish you luck and hope you enjoy Kotlin.

UPD: The editorial can be found here. Thank you for participation! I hope you enjoyed the problems.

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Announcement of Kotlin Heroes: Practice 4
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By BledDest, history, 4 years ago, In English
Div2A
Div2B/Div1A
Div2C
Div2D/Div1B
Div2E/Div1C
Div2F/Div1D
Div1E
Div1F

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By BledDest, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello everybody!

Today, on March 1st, 2020 the final round of Technocup olympiad for Russian-speaking high school students is held. The round starts at 13:00 Moscow time.

For those who want to compete on the same problems, we will host two Codeforces rounds: one for the first, and one for the second division. The rounds will start at 13:05 UTC, don't miss them! The round will start just after the onsite contest ends, so it can be postponed slightly if the onsite event timetable changes.

If you compete in the Final Round today, you can't compete in the Codeforces round #625.

The problems are prepared by MikeMirzayanov, Endagorion, tourist, Roms, vovuh, voidmax, adamant and me. Many thanks to KAN, AndreySergunin, antontrygubO_o, kuviman, MrPaul_TUser, Stepavly, artsin666, Pavs, AdvancerMan, Stresshoover, Peinot, geranazavr555, defolaut, nuipojaluista, cannor147, PrianishnikovaRina and Pavlova for testing the problems!

P.S. Because of the onsite contest, some Codeforces features may be disabled today.

Good luck!

UPD: The editorial is here.

Congratulations to the winners of the round:

Div1

1) ksun48

2) maroonrk

3) jijiang

4) Radewoosh

5) Um_nik

Div2

1) DraqonLore

2) DishonoredRighteous

3) 99824485311011

4) endbringer

5) cml

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By BledDest, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English
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By BledDest, history, 4 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

Codeforces Round 608 (Div. 2) will be held on Dec/15/2019 12:15 (Moscow time). The round will be rated for Div. 2 contestants. There will be 6 problems for 2 hours. Please, notice that the start time is unusual.

The round will be rated for the participants with rating lower than 2100. The statements will be available in Russian and English.

The round coincides with (and is based on) a local Saratov's olympiad for high school students. That's why we ask the participants of the olympiad to stay silent and don't share the statements of the contest with anyone. Unfortunately, we cannot add all the problems to the round, it will contain only six problems.

The problems were proposed and prepared by Alexander fcspartakm Frolov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov and me.

We also would like to express our gratitude to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for the permission to make a mirror and Codeforces and Polygon platforms, to our coordinator Dmitry cdkrot Sayutin or his help with testing the problems and preparing the round, and to the team of testers: MrPaul_TUser, Stresshoover, Supermagzzz, artsin666, defolaut, Peinot, PrianishnikovaRina, nuipojaluista, Ivan19981305, lankin.i, Pavlova, Decibit, dmitrii.krasnihin, AlexSap, unreal.eugene.

Scoring distribution: 500 — 1000 — 1250 — 1750 — 2250 — 3000.

Good luck!

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By BledDest, 5 years ago, translation, In English

1215A - Yellow Cards

Editorial
Solution (fcspartakm)

1215B - The Number of Products

Editorial
Solution (fcspartakm)

1215C - Swap Letters

Editorial
Solution (fcspartakm)

1215D - Ticket Game

Editorial
Solution (fcspartakm)

1215E - Marbles

Editorial
Solution (fcspartakm)

1215F - Radio Stations

Editorial
Solution (BledDest)

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By BledDest, 5 years ago, translation, In English

Hello Codeforces!

Codeforces Round 585 (Div. 2) will be held on Sep/15/2019 13:35 (Moscow time). The round will be rated for Div. 2 contestants. There will be 6 problems for 2 hours. Please, notice that the start time is unusual.

The round will be rated for the participants with rating lower than 2100. The statements will be available in Russian and English.

The round will start 2 hours after the start of the Qualification Stage, so they will finish around same time. That's why we ask the participants of the Quals to stay silent and don't share the statements of the contest with anyone. Unfortunately, we cannot add all the problems from Quals to the round, it will contain only six problems.

The problems were prepared by Alex fcspartakm Frolov and me.

We also would like to express our gratitude to Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov for the permission to make a mirror and Codeforces and Polygon platforms, Ildar 300iq Gainullin for his help with testing the problems and preparing the round. Also big thanks to the testers: Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev and Roman Roms Glazov.

As usual, the scoring distribution will be announced just before the round.

Good luck!

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By BledDest, 6 years ago, translation, In English

1051A - Vasya And Password

Tutorial
Solution (Ajosteen)

1051B - Relatively Prime Pairs

Tutorial
Solution (PikMike)

1051C - Vasya and Multisets

Tutorial
Solution (Ajosteen)

1051D - Bicolorings

Tutorial
Solution (PikMike)

1051E - Vasya and Big Integers

Tutorial
Solution (Ajosteen)

1051F - The Shortest Statement

Tutorial
Solution (Ajosteen)

1051G - Distinctification

Tutorial
Solution (BledDest)

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By BledDest, history, 6 years ago, translation, In English

1016A - Death Note

Tutorial
Solution (Vovuh)

1016B - Segment Occurrences

Tutorial
Solution (PikMike)

1016C - Vasya And The Mushrooms

Tutorial
Solution (Ajosteen)

1016D - Vasya And The Matrix

Tutorial
Solution (Ajosteen)

1016E - Rest In The Shades

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

1016F - Road Projects

Tutorial
The first solution (PikMike)
The second solution (BledDest)

1016G - Appropriate Team

Tutorial
Solution (adedalic)

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By BledDest, 6 years ago, translation, In English

1000A - Codehorses T-shirts

Editorial
Solution

1000B - Light It Up

Editorial
Solution

1000C - Covered Points Count

Editorial
Solution

1000D - Yet Another Problem On a Subsequence

Editorial
Solution

1000E - We Need More Bosses

Editorial
Solution

1000F - One Occurrence

Editorial
Solution with persistent segment tree
Solution with persistent segment tree (a bit unreadable but runs faster)
Solution with standard segment tree
Mo-based solution

1000G - Two-Paths

Editorial
Solution

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By BledDest, 6 years ago, translation, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

On June 27, 17:35 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 46 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.

As usual, the round will be rated for the participants with rating lower than 2100. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. 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 prepared by Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev, Roman Roms Glazov, Mikhail awoo Piklyaev and me.

Good luck to all participants!

UPD. The editorial is here.

I also have a message from our partner, Harbour.Space University:

Hi Codeforces!

For our programming boot camp’s next iteration of Hello Barcelona Programming Bootcamp, Harbour.Space University in collaboration with Moscow Workshops ICPC, ITMO University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Saint Petersburg State University and Codeforces is bringing the best training practices and coaches to Barcelona to prepare 150 students for winning medals in the next ICPC World Finals.

It's extraordinary to see the entire cultural spectrum meet at the boot camp over a common love of programming and learning, and this autumn, we will be doing it again.

Our boot camp will once again feature the all-time greats Mike MikeMirzayanov Mirzayanov, Andrey andrewzta Stankevich, Michael Endagorion Tikhomirov, Gleb GlebsHP Evstropov, Artem VArtem Vasilyev, Ivan ifsmirnov Smirnov and other world renowned Russian coaches to train the participants.

Expect the most challenging problems, surprise guests and speakers, a branded hackathon, and finally the online round held on Codeforces, so everyone can join the onsite participants, at the finale of the event.

During the nine days of the event from Sept 26 to Oct 4, 2018 in Barcelona, teams will be participating in practice contests, problem discussion sessions and lectures.

Learn more about Barcelona ICPC Bootcamp

You can ask any questions by email: [email protected]

UPD: The contest is over.

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 Farhod 7 353
2 MrDindows 7 362
3 tzuyu_chou 6 205
4 Wild_Hamster 6 248
5 spj_29 6 252

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 halyavin 225:-5
2 MarcosK 22:-3
3 sfialok98 5
4 Rhouma 4
5 FakeGuy 3
307 successful hacks and 245 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A 300iq 0:01
B HIT_Zero 0:13
C Dalgerok 0:07
D ruhan.habib39 0:08
E Dalgerok 0:14
F MrDindows 0:17
G chemthan 1:13

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By BledDest, 6 years ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On March 22, 9:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 40 will start. This will be a special round, branded by VTB and the Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp.

This round is held in collaboration with Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp and supported by the premier and international bank VTB, based in Russia.

Over 100 participants from the India side of the boot camp will be competing as individuals in this special online round!

JSC VTB Bank was founded in 1990, and its subsidiary banks and financial organisations (VTB Group or the Group) are a leading Russian financial group, offering a wide range of financial and banking services and products in Russia, the CIS, and a number of countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. VTB Group has the most extensive international network among all Russian banks, including more than 30 banks and financial companies in more than 20 countries.

The round will contain 9 problems, and you will have 3 hours to solve them. Problem authors are GlebsHP, vovuh, awoo, Xahandd and me.

We wish all of the participants good luck! Hope all of you will find something interesting in this contest.

UPD: Editorial is here.

Congratulations to the winners:

Rank Competitor Problems Solved Penalty
1 fatego 9 366
2 black_horse2014 9 513
3 mjhun 9 524
4 BlackPuppy 9 663
5 l_love_chtholly 8 382

Congratulations to the best hackers:

Rank Competitor Hack Count
1 Linkus 229:-17
2 step_by_step 115:-20
3 Aemon 96:-13
4 applese 28:-2
5 im0qianqian 27:-2
1341 successful hacks and 1475 unsuccessful hacks were made in total!

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

Problem Competitor Penalty
A 300iq 0:01
B gisp_zjz 0:04
C rhs0266 0:12
D szbszbszb 0:10
E 999qs999 0:21
F fatego 0:26
G Magolor 0:11
H fatego 0:18
I wakaka 0:31

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By BledDest, 6 years ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!

On March 06, 18:05 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 39 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 is a special Educational Round — Top three contestants among those who are eligible for participating in ACM ICPC will be invited to attend the Hello India x Russia Programming boot camp under the Codeforces + SDV banners, on a full team sponsorship.

Social Discovery Ventures (SDV) creates, develops and funds Internet projects specialising in communication platforms that enable people across the world to get closer and expand their social networks.

The winners will be fully sponsored with their boot camp participation fees, accomodation, and meals for the India location!

This round also has a special regional prize — the company Phaze Ventures, a platform founded to transform the region by unlocking the untapped potential of our youth, startups and corporates, will be sponsoring the top 3 participants of this round from Oman (also among those who are eligible for ACM ICPC) — further sharing the importance of supporting talented programmers and sending them to these types of events throughout the world.

The round will be rated for Div. 2. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day 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. Problem authors are awoo, vovuh and me.

Good luck to the participants! Hope you will enjoy the contest.

UPD: The tutorial has been published.

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By BledDest, history, 6 years ago, In English
A. Word Correction
B. Run For Your Prize
C. Constructing Tests
D. Buy a Ticket
E. Max History
F. Erasing Substrings
G. Shortest Path Queries

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By BledDest, history, 6 years ago, translation, In English
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By BledDest, history, 6 years ago, translation, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

On February 02, 17:35 MSK Educational Codeforces Round 37 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.

As usual, the round will be rated for Div. 2. It will be held on extented ACM ICPC rules. After the end of the contest you will have one day 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 prepared by Mikhail awoo Piklyaev, Vladimir vovuh Petrov, Adilbek adedalic Dalabaev and me. One of the problems was proposed by unbelievable02.

Good luck to all participants!

I also have a message from our partners, Harbour.Space University:

We are happy to announce the addition of two new coaches to our Hello India x Russia Programming Bootcamp: Gleb GlebsHP Evstropov, Artem VArtem Vasilyev and Filipp DPR-pavlin Rukhovich will all be attending at our India location, Amrita School of Engineering.

We look forward to seeing you all there this spring! For those of you who haven't registered, there's still time.

The Early Bird discount will be set at 20% for those who register before February 12th, 2018.

If you have any questions we can help you with, please connect with us:

Phone number: +34 674 291 422 Email Address: [email protected]

UPD. Editorial is here.

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