Hi, everyone!

Regular Codeforces round #242 for participants from the second division will take place on 25 April, 11:00 MSK. Participants from the first division are able to participate out of the competition.

The contest is prepared by programmers from Tomsk Polytechnic University: Pavel Khaustov (pkhaustov), Olesya Golub (Taube), Nickolay Kuzivanov (Carups), Dmitry Savvinov (Dsavvinov), Alexey Vetrov (noxwell).

Special thanks to Vladimir Chalyshev (cmd) and Alexey Dergunov (dalex) for their impact.

Also, thanks to Codeforces team and, especially, to Gerald Agapov (Gerald) and Maria Belova (Delinur).

Points distribution: 500-1000-1500-2500-3000

Good luck!

Good evening!

The final contest of Coder-Strike 2014 will be started tomorrow at 16:00 MSK. The problems (as in previous Coder-Strike 2014 rounds) are prepared by: Gerald, HolkinPV, Igor_Kudryashov.

And we have good news for you. There are two rated online rounds related to the contest: one round for the first division participants and the other for the second division participants. Of course, we've added simple problems in the second division contest (and also deleted hard problems).

The registration for the contest will start at 4:00 MSK, as usual registration ends 5 minutes before the contest start. The first division participants should register on "Coder-Strike 2014 — Finals (online edition, Div. 1)", the second division participants should register on "Coder-Strike 2014 — Finals (online edition, Div. 2)".

Hope the problems will be nice for you, we are really tried our best to prepare them.

Good luck!

UPD. Due to the holding the onsite competition of Coder-Strike 2014, we have to restrict access to the site after the contest. Approximately, the site will be unavailable for 15-30 minutes after the end of the contest.

The editorial is now available.

Good day!

Coder-Strike 2014: Round 2 will start tomorrow at Russian morning. If you want to participate, please register for the contest on the page.

In much the same way as the first round, all users can take part in the competition. But this round will be usual rated round only for the second division participants. The first division participants can take part too, but for them the round will be unrated. Please, do not get upset, the next Coder-Strike round (finals) will be rated round for the first division participants.

If you have any additional questions, please, ask at comments.

Good luck, and see you on the contest!

UPD 1. Sorry for delay, the score distribution is standard.

UPD 2. The contest is over, congratulations to the winners, hope you like the problems!

Good Day!

Coder-Strike 2014: Round 1 will start very soon. If you want to participate, please register for the contest on page. The round was prepared by me, HolkinPV and Igor_Kudryashov. And we tried our best to make it really awesome.

The round will be usual rated round for the second division participants. The first division participants can take part too, but for them the round will be unrated.

If you have any additional questions, please, ask at comments.

Hope you enjoy the problems! Good luck!

UPD 1. Score distribution will be standard: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

UPD 2. The competition was delayed by 10 minutes. :]

UPD 3. Because of unusual room assignment Div.1 and Div.2 participants will be in the same rooms this round.

UPD 4. The contest has ended, hope you like the problems. Rating for Div.2 participants will be updated a bit later.

Russian Code Cup is a competition organized by Mail.Ru Group for Russian-speaking programmers. This year the competition will run for the fourth time to gather top 50 to great finals in Moscow in October.

Though Russian Code Cup is open only for those who speak Russian, the team that is working on problems for Russian Code Cup has decided to make a present to all CodeForces users and set up an extra round for everyone.

The round will be held on April 17 at 19-30 Moscow time. The round will be open for everyone and will have both div-1 and div-2 tasks. It will use standard CodeForces rules. The writer of most problems is Aksenov239 — author of many Russian Code Cup problems.

We wish all participants good luck and see you on Thursday at http://codeforces.com

UPD: Score for problems: Div1: 500-1000-1500-2500-2500, Div2: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500. Good luck!

Good day!

Codeforces will hold competition Coder-Strike 2014 for Moscow school children. Qualification Round of the competition will start soon. The round will be unrated for all participants.

As usually, anyone can enjoy the problems! If you aren't a Moscow school child you can take part in the round unofficially.

Hope you will enjoy our problems, good luck!

The round will start on 08:00 (UTC) of April, 13. It will be a kind of unusual round because at first for a long time Gerald didn't work much on round. It was prepared by me (how it is interesting to write a round!), Nerevar with the help of Gerald and Fefer_Ivan-а. Maria, many thanks for translations!

It will be classical points: 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2000 — 2500.

Hi everybody!

Codeforces round #240 will take place tomorrow 19:30 MSK

This is our first round in Codeforces and we hope that everything will be fine. The problems were prepared by Amir Keivan Mohtashami(matrix), Farbod Yadegarian(FarbodY) and Gerald Agapov(Gerald). Also special thanks to Mohammad Amin Khashkhashi Moghaddam(alex-mercer) for testing this round.

I want to also thank MikeMirzayanov for Polygon and Codeforces systems, and also Maria Belova(Delinur) for translating the statements.

We wish you a good and challenging round.

Have fun!

Score distribution:

div1: 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 1500 — 2500

div2: 500 — 1000 — 1500 — 2000 — 2500 (standard)

UPD: due to technical reasons the round was delayed for 10 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.