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By swapnil07, history, 2 years ago, In English

Edit: The problems have been opened for practice, the editorials have been published!

Warm greetings,

Newton School cordially invites you to be a part of our Newton's Grand Coding Contest. The challenge will go live on 31st March 2022 at 9 PM IST. Do register for the contest and stand a chance to win cash prizes worth ₹1,000,000 and exciting goodies like AirPods 3rd Gen, Amazon Echo 4th Gen, boAt Airdopes 131, ergonomic keyboards, Newton School exclusive merchandise (T-shirts, sippers, notebooks, stickers, etc.)

Registration Link: Newton's Grand Coding Contest — we have already caused 100,000 registrations.

You will be given 8 problems and 180 minutes to solve them. The contest will be rated for all! The initial problems are highly beginner friendly and the text and video editorials will be released post the grand coding contest.

The problems were written and tested by dnshgyl21, _deactivated_, Sawarnik, and Xzirium.

We would also like to thank gkapatia for co-ordinating the contest.

Contest Highlights

Prizes for top global participants

  • The first prize winner gets ₹100,000
  • Second Prize — ₹50,000
  • Third Prize — ₹25,000
  • Fourth Prize — ₹15,000
  • Fifth Prize — ₹10,000

Gift Vouchers

  • Amazon Gift Vouchers worth ₹500 for Top 500 coders.
  • Amazon Gift Vouchers worth ₹100 for coders ranked between 501 — 2000.
  • Amazon gift vouchers worth ₹100 for coders ranked 2001 and above — random 1000 people solving at least 1 problem

Prizes for top Indian participants (if not in global top 5)

  • First Prize — ₹10,000 with trophy
  • Second Prize — ₹5,000 with trophy
  • Third Prize — ₹2,500 with trophy
  • Fourth Prize — ₹1,500 with trophy
  • Fifth Prize — ₹1,000 with trophy

Prizes for top 3 Indian girl participants (over and above all other prizes)

  • First Prize — ₹10,000 with trophy
  • Second Prize — ₹5,000 with trophy
  • Third Prize — ₹2,500 with trophy

Top 3 coders from Indian colleges with 100+ active participants

  • First Prize — ₹500
  • Second Prize — ₹200
  • Third Prize — ₹100

Goodies for top Indian Coders!

  • Top 2: AirPods 3rd Gen
  • Ranks 3-10: Amazon Echo 4th Gen
  • Rank 11-25: boAt Airdopes 131
  • Rank 26-100: Cool sipper
  • Fastest Indian solvers for every question: Ergonomic Keyboard

Top 100 Indian Participants: Exclusive Newton School T-shirts and goodies!

Note: Top 5 participants from other countries can opt to receive an Amazon Gift voucher in their respective currencies or through a Paypal transaction. All the other gift vouchers will be sent in INR.

We hope you like the contest! Hope to see you all at the leaderboard! :)

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by swapnil07 (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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clash with div 3 -_-

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Is there are any penalties for the wrong submissions?

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How to set country on the site??

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hmm hmm hmm

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What's the solution of Much XOR?

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It would be greatly appreciated if you could post the announcement a bit earlier (24h before the contest would be fine for me). I check CF blogs at least once a day, but I missed this contest.

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    Sure, we'll do that. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Any update on prizes?

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When will we receive prizes and vouchers? We have not received any notification regarding the same. Please clarify. thanks