Hello, Codeforces!

We are happy to announce that we're going to start a new series of contests at csacademy.com. If you are planning to interview for a software engineering position, the interview contests are a great place to hone your skills. We also think they are going to be challenging for regular algorithms enthusiasts.

Interview Contest #1 will take place on Saturday, January/28/2017 16:00 (UTC). If you want to take part in this round you need to register before the contest begins. You will have to solve 8 tasks of varied difficulty in 2 hours. The contest will also feature an interactive problem.

Contest format:

• There will be full feedback throughout the entire contest.
• Tasks will not have partial scoring, so you need to pass all test cases for a solution to count (ACM-ICPC-style).
• Tasks will have dynamic scores. According to the number of users that solve a problem the score will vary between 100 and 1000.
• Besides the score, each user will also get a penalty that is going to be used as a tie breaker.

About the penalty system:

• Computed using the following formula: the minute of the last accepted solution + the penalty for each solved task. The penalty for a solved task is equal to log2 (no_of_submissions) * 5.
• Solutions that don't compile or don't pass the example test cases are ignored.
• Once you solve a task you can still resubmit. All the following solutions will be ignored for both the score and the penalty.

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