Hello, Codeforces!

We are happy to announce that the Syrian Virtual University and Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology Collegiate Programming Contest 2026 is now available for practice in the Codeforces Gym.

The official contest took place on July 23, 2026, and featured 14 problems of varying difficulty.

You can find the contest here.

The problems were prepared by:

3atori, Anas_Da, Fetfot, Jamalocopter, MOUFLESS, Mr_Coder7, and Rising-coder.

Thanks to Kaitokid for helping us improving many of the problems.

Also, we would like to deeply thank everyone who tested the problems, you guys are the best:

2nd_Chance_maybe, ADAR2002, Ahmad-Al-Ateek, Ahmad_OS, Alien-X, Amgad, Amr.7, at2c, Aziz_05, Barakat., Better_Call_Abdul, Blossom__, Buffalocopter, cgmoreda, Doraemonn, El_Qorsan, employed, FarhanHY, FTS_Problem_C, Grizoo, Hadil-sh, hammoudehib, HAYA, hocln, I_will_keep_trying, Igor_Parfenov, iMido, KAKAROT-M, Karam_Kallasi, khalaf, Khaled_Al_Awad, LazyXcoder, Lily_, limbo16, Mac.Genius, Majedh, name2, Mohammad_Hacker, MohammadAlGhareeb, Muhannadooov, Nananah, nonchALAAnt, Rei_0, samsoom, SHAWW, Shisui, SMA665, stay_in_gray, the.Mage, the_seal, theINVINCIBLE, ultra_V, Um_nik, Vectors_Master, Weird00, y0uKn0wWh0, yousefAbukhass, and Zingan.

We realized today we never had a photo together for 7 authors. I can confirm that the union of people in both photos has at least 7 authors.

Thank you as well to everyone involved in organizing and running the onsite contest.

We hope you enjoy the problems!

Good luck and have fun!

The blog doesn't interest you if you're not mentioned so skip reading to save your time!

As you might've read in Mr.Pie's blog post, some users have got rating change despite them being Master ranked and unrated in Codeforces Round 1056 Div.2, these are:
Rising-coder -me, ivandasfs, saboten, konghaojie, GuilhermeCdM, yahia, CoderAbhi27, lyteabovenyte

Why did this happen ?

It appears all of us have registered to the round when we were Candidate-Master. That's still a bug of course because I did the same many times before but this didn't happen.

Why am I posting this blog ?

Well I tried contacting MikeMirzayanov, and the round coordinator errorgorn, and one of the authors efishel. But they all read and ignore. So yeah I'll just spam more!

Why do I even care ?

I've participated in 5 Rounds since getting to Master:
Codeforces Round 1056 (Div. 2) — Should've been unrated, my rating stays 2131 — got -160 change instead.
Educational Codeforces Round 183 (Rated for Div. 2) — Should've been unrated, my rating stays 2131 — got -80 change instead.
Codeforces Round 1057 (Div. 2) — Should've been unrated, my rating stays 2131 — got +50 change instead.
Codeforces Round 1058 (Div. 1) — Legit rated, My rating should be 2083 — It is actually 1936 instead.
Codeforces Round 1060 (Div. 2) — Legit rated dependeing on last (Div. 1) and I should fly to 2206 rating instead of me being 2113 now.

I'm going for International Master so it does matter if these changes were correct!
I appreciate it if someone related to preparing the round actually replies!
I absolutely have no doubts that this blog is very annoying and deserves to get downvoted, but I have to.

Is it a punishment for my horrible performance ?
Please fix this issue, I was Master before participating in today's Div.2 Round. I should be unrated.

I've started solving 1400-Rated problems about 10 days ago but I'm really struggling with them.
Most of them I needed to read the editorial to solve or I ended up not solving them at all.

Should I just keep going or should I go back to easier problems(1300-1200-etc) ?