Deadline24 Final — (not so) Smallish write-up for Cauldron [Note: Somehow it turned out to be very lengthy] Not sure if you guys are interested in seeing this, but I figured out I need a brake from coding. And well, I wrote about the M24, so I guess I should write about D24 as well :) The Deadline24 finals were hosted last week. Our team won (by a small margin, but still) and I managed to get the highest score on my problem (The Power of Cauldron, or something like that). Unfortunately, the problems are not available on the website, so I cannot link to them. Overall our initial strategy was to split the problems by the amounts of pages — I take the longest one, then Marek Cygan, and the shortest one goes to Mojito1. The length of the statement usually correlates with the amount of code you have to write in order to get a decent solution. Plus, we quickly saw that Cauldron will requires a lot of visualization work, which kind of is my specialization in those 24h contests, apart from specializing in dozens of other areas ;) ...

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Deadline24 2017 — Qualifying Round and GYM replay of previous edition Hi everybody. Deadline24 is an international programming marathon, organized continually since 2009 by Future Processing. During the contest, the teams of three tackle algorithmic problems. The marathon is composed of two phases. The qualifying round starts on March 12. For 5 clock hours, the teams will be solving tasks and generating responses assessed by the verification server. This stage of the competition is remote. Then, the best teams of the qualifying round will meet at the 24-hour finals held on April 22-23, 2017, in Katowice (Poland). **The teams can sign up until March 9**, 2017 (23.59 CET). Registration is available on the contest website [www.deadline24.pl](//www.deadline24.pl). ------------------ You can get familiar with the type and difficulty level of the tasks in the Qualifying round by competing in the GYM contest on this Thursday and will last 5 hours (check your timezone [here](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Deadline24+20...

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Deadline24 — looking for team member Hey there. There is a contest in Poland called <a href="https://deadline24.pl/home-en/">Deadline24</a>. It is 24 hours long programming marathon where you are programming bots for games. We are looking (with [user:skedar,2015-02-06]) for a third party member. We can offer: - noble company - almost certainty to advance to the finals (we are in the finals since we started participating) and the finals includes: - trip to Silesia in Poland, to the old carbon mine, (unfortunately you will have to pay for your travel yourself), - possibility to die from overeating (the organizers provide food for 24 hours: pizzas, snacks, etc.), - flashdisk (lol :)) - really nice diploma and cerificate (in English, of course) The tasks are in English. Scheldule: - Registration: up until February 26, 2015 - Qualifying round: March 1, 2015 - Finals (on site!): April 7-8, 2015 What we want is someone who can write a program (not necessarly fast and good program, but it will be nic...

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Invitation to Deadline24 Qualifying Round Replay Contest on Codechef Hello CodeForces Community! The 2018 edition of the 24 hour programming marathon, Deadline24, is a unique contest featuring non-stop programming action and challenges. Now, you can step up your preparations for it by taking part in the replay contest of the 2017 Deadline24 Qualifying Round. Here are the contest details: **Time:** 9th February 2018 (2030 hrs) to 9th February 2018 (2330 hrs). (Indian Standard Time — +5:30 GMT) — Check your [timezone](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CodeChef%3A+Replay+of+Deadline24+2017+Qualifying+Round&iso=20180209T2030&p1=44&ah=3). **Contest link:** https://www.codechef.com/DEAD2018 **Registration:** This is a team contest. Therefore, those interested must register here (https://www.codechef.com/teams/register/DEAD2018) in a team and have a CodeChef handle to participate. All those who do not have a CodeChef handle are requested to [register](https://www.codechef.com/signup) in order to participa...

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Overview of Programming Contests After several months of inactivity I finally added something new to my blog: [http://psyho.gg/overview-of-programming-contests/](http://psyho.gg/overview-of-programming-contests/) Long time ago, I had a goal to write a small series of articles around competitive programming, so that most of the commonly asked questions (what's the point it, what people do there, how to practice, can I earn money on those, what sites should I use, etc.) could be simply answered by linking to the appropriate article. Unfortunately, after switching to being a full-time game designer I run out of time to do so. So I won't promise that I'll ever finish the series, but at least I'll try :) If you think that I have missed something very important, let me know (either here, or on my blog). Just keep in mind, that the article is already long and I don't want to write about some niche contests. Also a small remainder. You have less than one month to gather a team for [Deadline24](https://deadline24.pl/h...

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AI Contest: write a bot and win 100TON (≈189$) A long time ago there was a competition called Deadline24, which I really enjoyed! Unfortunately, the last edition of it was in 2018. In that competition, you need to write a program, which connects to the server via TCP and plays some game. Usually, the game is turn-based, so you need to read the current state, make a move, wait for the next turn, and so on. I like this format, so as a hobby project, I decided to write a server for a game in the same format. The game itself is very simple. You are playing as a circle, which flies around the field, and need to collect as many other circles as possible. The only hard part is that you can't change your speed instantly, you can only change acceleration.  The contest is already live! You can watch the current game in real-time: https://aicontest.dev/ and read more detailed rules of the game: https://github.com/bminaiev/aiconte...

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How to get better? OK, this might be a bit strange. Many people ask others "How to become a better programmer?", "How to become red in two weeks?" or "Can somebody explain to me the solution to problem B?" under the editorial with a beautiful explanation to problem B. My question will be a bit different. It'll be about marathon problems, especially about Marathon Matches. I'm not so bad at it, I've been the best in my problem in Deadline24 eliminations a few times or so, but I'm much worse on long contests. Now, it looks almost impossible for me to win a Marathon round. I'm not sure how should I practice, there are many ways to practice normal CP, but marathons are different. You have to spend a lot of time on one problem to produce a good enough solution. Also, I don't know what am I missing &mdash; bad idea, implementation details, wrong temperatures (I'm still not sure if I anneal correctly) or if my code is simply too slow to check enough options? So, is there any list of tips from people who a...

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Deadline24 2018 Just a reminder that the registration for this year's [deadline24](https://deadline24.pl/news/) is going to close in about 4 days. If you are going to participate you should register in the next few days. The qualification round will be held next Sunday (February 25, 2018, 9:00-14:00 (CET)). Let's discuss the problems here after it. **UPDATE:** The registration will end in about a day and 4 hours.

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Многопоточность на контестах Всем привет! Многим известны соревнования Google Code Jam, Facebook Hackercup, IPSC, ch24, deadline24 и т.п. Их объединяет то, что в задаче даётся инпут с мультитестом внутри, на который нужно посчитать ответ у себя локально. Мне стало интересно, пользуетесь ли вы распараллеливанием? Современные машины позволяют дать ощутимый прирост, например, чтобы избежать [таких](/blog/entry/3875) ситуаций. А прошедший deadline24 мы писали так  _([само описание событий](http://k-mihey.livejournal.com/39098.html))_ Я решил написать свой вариант шаблона, и вот что у меня получилось: [code](http://pastebin.com/tCYfCw8V). Вот ещё другой подход от [user:Kormyshov,2015-03-14]: [code](http://paste.org.ru/?nku223). Кто может предложить другие варианты, желательно на с++? А может на других языках это делается проще? А может у кого-то есть инструменты, позволяющие параллелить инпут на несколько машин (кроме рук и фле...

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10th edition of the programming marathon Deadline24 Hello, Codeforces! I would like to invite you to take part in the 10th jubilee edition of **the international programming marathon Deadline24**. During the contest, the teams of three tackle algorithmic problems. **Registration will last until February 22** and it is possible through the form available on the website: [www.deadline24.pl/register](https://deadline24.pl/register/) The qualifying round will take place on Sunday, February 25. During it the registered teams will struggle to solve tasks for 5 hours and this will be verified by server. This part of the competition is carried out remotely. In the last year a record number of competitors registered for the first phase — 1950.  For the final — which lasts for 24 hours — 30 teams with the best scores obtained during the elimination will be invited. The final will take place on 7- 8 of April in Poland. This year the best teams will win: Oculus Ri...

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List of contests with onsite finals Hi Codeforces. I am interested if there's an exhaustive list of programming contests that have onsite finals. While there's a huge number of online contests nowadays, participation in most of them doesn't give any perks except T-shirts and (sometimes) money for top finishers. While onsite contest, even if it only rewards top finishers with the money, is a good reward itself and promotion to the onsite contest is a great motivation. Of course, everybody is aware of such well-known contests with onsite finals as Topcoder Open, Facebook Hackercup, Google Code Jam. There're also some marathon contests such as Marathon24, Deadline24, Challenge24. But there're more contests than that &mdash; for example, Codechef Snackdown (started last year), VK Cup, CROC (only for Russian-speaking participants), Mindcoding (https://mindcoding.ro/). Therefore I'm wondering if there're some other contests that I'm not aware of. If there's no such list, let's create one! What do you think about this ...

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Deadline24, Final Round It's the first time we're competing in the final of Deadline 24. We're very excited and videos from past contests look like a lot of fun. What advise would you give to fresh-mans? I would be pleased to hear from teams who already have some experience in this contest as well. * What pre-written code would you advise to have? * What tools did you use to visualise games (if any)? Did you run visualisations in parallel? * Was there a visualisation provided on a shared monitor where you could see the games in action? * Approximately how many rounds for each game were there during the contest? * After how much time since the start of the contest would teams have a minimal working solution? * What hardware did you bring with you and found useful (router/switch, extra monitors, etc)? * What additional material (language specs, books, language tools/libraries), if any, did you find useful? * What programming language(s) and tools did use to code problems, and why? * Did you use an...

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Deadline24 ищем сокомандника 9-10 апреля в Польше в Катовице пройдёт финал [deadline24](https://deadline24.pl/). Я и [user:izban,2016-04-02] ищем третьего сокомандника. Кто готов присоединиться пишите в личку здесь или в ВК.

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Deadline24 is over [*] Probably some of you will be interested in this news: [link to facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/Deadline24pl/photos/a.266690216719911/1813137568741827/?type=3&theater) [*]

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Deadline 24 - Qualifying round Hello! Today, at [08:00 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=The%20Qualifying%20Round&iso=20160228T0800&ah=0&am=0) will be held Deadline24's qualifying round. Let's discuss problems here, after the contest of course!

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A Reminder for the biggest coming Contests Hello Guys, I just wanted to remind everyone of you to have his registration completed for each of those coming contests : - Facebook Hacker Cup : Qualification Round **9th Jan. 2016** - The deadline24.pl : Qualifying Round **28th Feb. 2016** - Google HashCode : Online Qualification Round **11th February 2016**

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Deadline24, Team programming marathon (8th edition) Hello friends I would like to remind you that the registration is going to be closed soon. Register your team asap. [click](https://www.deadline24.pl/)

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Deadline24, Qualifying Round Let's discuss problems here. It would be interesting to hear some good solutions for C and D.

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