We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 22, this Wednesday, 19th January, rated for Div 2 & 3 participants.

Time: 8 PM — 11 PM IST

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Contest Admin: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Daanish Mahajan

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Srikkanth srikkanthr R, Jeevan Jyot JeevanJyot Singh, Chaithanya Dragonado Shyam, Aryan Aggu_01000101 Agarwala, Bharat singlabharat Singla

• Tester: Aryan aryanc403 Choudhary

• Statement Verifier: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh

• Editorialist: Lavish lavish315 Gupta

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s January Long Challenge Two, this Friday, 14th January, 3 PM IST onwards.

Please note, the contest is open for three days, i.e., from 14 — 17 December. The long Challenge One will be rated only for Div 3 coders.

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Daanish 7dan Mahajan

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Manuj DarkSparkle Nanthan, Prasant prasant21 Kumar, Kartikeya kartikeyasri23 Srivastava, Ma Zihang, Aryan Aggu_01000101 Agarwala, Chaithanya Dragonado Shyam

• Testers: Taranpreet taran_1407 Singh

• Statement Verifier: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh

• Editorialist: Kanhaiya notsoloud1 Mohan

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas and are interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck!

Subject: Invitation to CodeChef Starters 21 (Rated for Div 2 & 3) — 5th January

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 21, this Wednesday, 5th January, rated for Div 2 & 3 participants.

Time: 8 PM — 11 PM IST

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Devendra _Damon Singh, Divyansh dash2199 Gupta, Akash akash_sharma100 Sharma, Pranav Submit_Galactic_Algo Reddy, Ankush mystic_ankush Chabbra, Takuki tabr Kurokawa, Akash JustAkash21 Sharma

• Contest Admin: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Daanish Mahajan

• Testers: Lavish lavish315 Gupta, Tejas tejas10p Pandey

• Statement Verifier: Nishank IceKnight1093 S

• Editorialist: Ajit ajit Sharma

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 19, this Saturday, 11th December, rated for Div 2 & 3 participants.

Time: 8 PM — 11 PM IST

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Contest Admin: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Mradul bhatnagar.mradul Bhatnagar, Lavish lavish315 Gupta, Srikkanth srikkanthr R, Jeevan JeevanJyot Jyot Singh, Chaithanya Dragonado Shyam, Nandeesh nandyboy Gupta, Daanish Mahajan

• Testers: Lavish lavish315 Gupta, Abinav abhinavvv306 Sharma

• Statement Verifier: Nishank IceKnight1093 S

• Editorialist: Nishank IceKnight1093 S

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s December Long Challenge, this Friday, 3rd December, 3 PM IST onwards.

The contest is open for 10 days, i.e, from 3 — 13 December. Please note, this month’s long challenge will be rated only for Div 3 participants.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Nishant nishant403 Shah

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Soumyadeep Slayer_21 Pal, Jeevan JeevanJyot Jyot Singh, Nishant nishant403 Shah, Tejas tejas10p Pandey, Daanish 7dan Mahajan, Jayesh jayeshaw Shaw, Aryan aryanc403

• Testers: Abhinav abhinavvv306 Sharma, Lavish lavish315 Gupta

• Statement Verifier: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh

• Editorialist: Taranpreet taran_1407 Singh

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 18, this Monday, 22nd November, rated for Div 3 participants.

Time: 8 PM — 11 PM IST

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Nishant nishant403 Shah

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Surya evilbuggy Prakash, Lavish lavish315 Gupta, Manan IaMaNanBord Bordia, Jeevan JeevanJyot Jyot Singh

• Testers: Lavish lavish315 Gupta, Abinav abhinavvv306 Sharma

• Statement Verifier: Soumyadeep soumyadeep_pal_21 Pal

• Editorialist: Taranpreet taran_1407 Singh

• Video Editorialists: Prachi agarwal19 Agarwal, Darshan darshancool25 Lokhande, Yashodhan ay21 Agnihotri, Bharat singlabharat Singla, Kartikeya IWishYourNameCouldBeHere Srivastava, Istasis ista2000 Mishra

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 17, this Wednesday, 17th November, rated for Div 2 & 3 participants.

Time: 8 PM — 11 PM IST

Joining us on the problem setting panel are:

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Nishant nishant403 Shah

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Nishant nishant403 Shah, Soumyadeep soumyadeep_pal_21 Pal, Surya evilbuggy Prakash, Tejas tejas10p Pandey, Shubham TheOneYouWant Anand Jain, Aryan aryanc403 Choudhary, Deep ZetaFunction Raval

• Testers: Aryan aryanc403 Choudhary

• Statement Verifier: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh

• Editorialist: Taranpreet taran_1407 Singh

• Video Editorialists: Prachi agarwal19 Agarwal, Darshan darshancool25 Lokhande, Yashodhan ay21 Agnihotri, Bharat singlabharat Singla, Kartikeya IWishYourNameCouldBeHere Srivastava, Istasis ista2000 Mishra

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s November Long Challenge, this Friday, 5th November, 3 PM IST onwards.

The contest is open for 10 days, i.e, from 5 — 15 November. Please note, this month’s long challenge will be rated only for Div 3 participants.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Ashish Ashishgup Gupta, Soumyadeep Slayer_21 Pal, Jeevan JeevanJyot Jyot Singh, Manan mexomerf Grover, Srikkanth srikkanthr R, Daanish 7dan Mahajan, Abhinav abhinavvv306 Sharma, Chaithanya Dragonado Shyam, Surya evilbuggy Prakash

• Testers: Samarth Samarth12 Gupta, Manan mexomerf Grover

• Statement Verifier: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh

• Editorialist: Taranpreet taran_1407 Singh

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Nishant nishant403 Shah

• Video Editorialists: Chirayu Chirayu Jain, Prachi agarwal19 Agarwal, Darshan darshancool25 Lokhande, Yashodhan ay21 Agnihotri, Meet myth_gemphir Singh Gambhir, Bharat Singla, Kartikeya IWishYourNameCouldBeHere Srivastava

• Mandarin Translator: Qingchuan qingczha Zhang

• Russian Translator: Kostia lkosten Yarmash

• Bengali Translator: Mohammad solaimanope Solaiman

• Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s SnackDown 2021 — Round 1B, this Friday, 29th October, 9 PM IST onwards.

The contest is open for 2 days, i.e, from 29 — 31 October & is a second chance for the participants who couldn’t clear Round 1A, to qualify for the Pre-Elimination round. Check your email to know your results and details about how to participate in this round.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Mradul bhatnagar.mradul Bhatnagar, Nandeesh nandyboy Gupta, Nishant nishant403 Shah, Daanish 7dan Mahajan, Srikkanth srikkanthr R, Pallav Pallove Chauhan

• Testers: Taranpreet taran_1407 Singh, Yahor 244mhq, Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Surya evilbuggy Prakash, Nishant nishant403 Shah, Chaithanya Dragonado Shyam, Adithya infinitepro Dsilva

• Statement Verifier: Nishank IceKnight1093 Suresh

• Editorialist: Adithya infinitepro Dsilva

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Daanish 7dan Mahajan, Nishant nishant403 Shah

• Mandarin Translator: Qingchuan qingczha Zhang

• Russian Translator: Kostia lkosten Yarmash

• Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI

Participants who get AC in at least 4 problems will qualify for the next round of Pre-Elimination.

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating. Good Luck!

The Qualifiers for SnackDown 2021 have ended. If you have solved one problem successfully you know you have qualified. In any case, you can check your email to know your official verdict from us. The participants who’ve cleared the Qualifiers can now proceed to Round 1A of the Championship that starts TODAY (21st to 23rd October)!

Some important points: Participants who finish with a rank of <= 1500 in Round 1A will qualify for the next round of Pre-Elimination. If there are a lot of ties, more than 1500 can qualify from 1A. The contestants of Round 1A who could not move to the Pre-Elimination round will be then invited and registered for Round 1B (29th to 31st October). Participants who finish with a rank of <= 1500 in Round 1B will qualify for the Pre-Elimination round.

At each stage of the contest, we will update you via emails to your registered email id. You can also reach us at [email protected] or [email protected].

All the best!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 15 this Tuesday, October 12th, rated for Division 2 & 3 participants.

Time: 8 PM — 11 PM IST.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Soumyadeep soumyadeep_pal_21 Pal, Mradul bhatnagar.mradul Bhatnagar, Lavish lavish315 Gupta, Tejas tejas10p Pandey, Abhinav abhinavvv306 Sharma

• Tester: Samarth Samarth12 Gupta

• Statement Verifiers: Mradul bhatnagar.mradul Bhatnagar, Sarthak SarthakAjmera Ajmera

• Editorialist: Ajit Sharma ajit Kasturi

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Daanish Mahajan

• Video Editorialists: Chirayu Chirayu Jain, Prachi agarwal19 Agarwal, Darshan darshancool25 Lokhande, Yashodhan ay21 Agnihotri, Shivam Bohra, Aryan Agarwala, Meet myth_gemphir Singh Gambhir, Bharat Singla

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 13 this Sunday, September 26th, rated for both division 2 & 3 participants.

Time: 4 PM — 7 PM IST.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Lavish lavish315 Gupta, Soumyadeep soumyadeep_pal_21 Pal, Daanish Mahajan, Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Surya evilbuggy Prakash, Nandeesh nandyboy Gupta

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Daanish Mahajan

• Tester: Samarth Samarth12 Gupta

• Statement Verifier: Mradul bhatnagar.mradul Bhatnagar

• Editorialist: Adithya infinitepro Dsilva

• Video Editorialists: Chirayu Chirayu Jain, Prachi agarwal19 Agarwal, Darshan darshancool25 Lokhande, Yashodhan ay21 Agnihotri, Shivam Bohra, Aryan Agarwala, Meet myth_gemphir Singh Gambhir, Rajarshi RestingRajarshi Basu, Bharat Singla, Taranpreet taran_1407 Singh

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 11 this Wednesday, September 15th, rated for both division 2 & 3 participants.

Time: 8 PM — 11 PM IST.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Soumyadeep soumyadeep_pal_21 Pal, Aryan Agarwala, Lavish lavish315 Gupta, Akash Whiplash99 Bhalotia, AbdelAziz Tsetso Mostafa, Mradul bhatnagar.mradul Bhatnagar, Surya evilbuggy Prakash

• Tester: Samarth gupta_samarth Gupta

• Statement Verifier: Sarthak SarthakAjmera Ajmera

• Editorialist: Taranpreet taran_1407 Singh

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Daanish Mahajan

• Video Editorialists: Chirayu Chirayu Jain, Prachi agarwal19 Agarwal, Darshan darshancool25 Lokhande, Yashodhan ay21 Agnihotri, Shivam Bohra, Aryan Agarwala, Meet myth_gemphir Singh Gambhir, Rajarshi RestingRajarshi Basu, Bharat Singla, Rishab Nahar

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 10 this Sunday, 29th August, rated for both division 2 & 3 participants.

Time: 4 PM — 7 PM IST.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Contest Admins: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Daanish Mahajan

• Tester: Nishant nishant403 Shah

• Statement Verifier: Soumyadeep soumyadeep_pal_21 Pal

• Editorialist: Adithya infinitepro Dsilva

• Setters: Soumyadeep soumyadeep_pal_21 Pal, Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Satyam satyam343 Kumar Roy, Tejas tejas10p Pandey

• Video Editorialists: Chirayu Chirayu Jain, Prachi agarwal19 Agarwal, Darshan darshancool25 Lokhande, Yashodhan ay21 Agnihotri, Shivam Bohra, Aryan Agarwala, Meet myth_gemphir Singh Gambhir, Rajarshi RestingRajarshi Basu, Adhish ak2006 Kancharla

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck!

We invite you to participate in CodeChef’s Starters 9 this Tuesday, 17th August.

Time: 8 PM — 11 PM IST.

Joining me on the problem setting panel are:

• Setters: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta, Soumyadeep soumyadeep_pal_21 Pal

• Head Admin: Alex Um_nik Danilyuk

• Contest Admin: Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta

• Tester: Adithya infinitepro Dsilva, Utkarsh Utkarsh.25dec Gupta

• Editorialist: Adithya infinitepro Dsilva

• Statement Verifier: Soumyadeep soumyadeep_pal_21 Pal

• Video Editorialists: Chirayu Chirayu Jain, Prachi agarwal19 Agarwal, Darshan darshancool25 Lokhande, Yashodhan ay21 Agnihotri, Shivam Bohra, Aryan Agarwala, Meet myth_gemphir Singh Gambhir, Rajarshi RestingRajarshi Basu, Bharat singlabharat Singla, Siddhartha

• Mandarin Translator: Qingchuan qingczha Zhang

• Russian Translator: Fedor Mediocrity Korobeinikov

• Bengali Translator: Sakib SakibAbrar Abrar

• Vietnamese Translator: Team VNOI

The video editorials of the problems will be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the contest ends. Subscribe to get notifications about our new editorials.

Also, if you have some original and engaging problem ideas, and you’re interested in them being used in CodeChef's contests, you can share them here.

Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck!