New Year Greetings Everyone !!!

We cordially invite you all to the first CodeChef long challenge of the year 2014. The contest promises to deliver on an interesting set of algorithmic problems with prizes up for grabs. The contest is open for all and those, who are interested, just need are a CodeChef username to participate. Those who do not have a CodeChef username are requested to register in order to participate.

The problem statements of the contest will also be available in Mandarin Chinese and Russian as well.

Spanning over two weekends, starting from the first Friday of every month, our monthly long challenges promise to whet your programming appetite, with 9 binary problems of varying difficulty levels & 1 challenge problem.

The January Challenge 2014 is taking place on http://www.codechef.com/JAN14.

The contest details are as follows:

Start Date: Friday, 3rd January, 2014 3:00 PM (IST)
End Date: Monday, 13rd January 2014 3:00 PM (IST)
Contest Duration: 10 days

Problem Setters:

• David Stolp (pieguy),
• Kaushik Iska (cauchyk),
• Konstantin Sokol (kostya_by),
• Mugurel Ionut Andreica (mugurelionut),
• Nikhil Garg (Nikhil),
• Roman Rubanenko (rubanenko),
• Sergey Nagin (sereja),
• Tuan Anh (tuananh93),
• Vivek Hamirwasia (viv001)

Problem Testers:

• Mahbub (dragoon),
• Gerald (Gerald)

Editorialist: ShangJIngbo (shangjingbo)

Mandarin Translator: Kojima Minako (xiaodao)

Russian Translators: Sergey Kulik (cherrytree)

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Do share your feedback on what you feel about the new long contest format at [email protected]

Good Luck! Hope to see you participating.