Hello, Codeforces!

We (KDOI Team) are glad to invite you to take part in Refact.ai Match 1 (Codeforces Round 985), which is the 8th CP contest held by us! You can view the previous rounds by us here.

• Number of problems: $$$9$$$ ($$$0$$$ interactive);
• Start time: Nov/09/2024 17:35 (Moscow time);
• Contest duration: $$$180$$$ minutes;
• Score distribution: $$$750-1250-1750-2250-2500-3000-3500-5000-5500$$$.

The problems were authored and prepared by Error_Yuan, wyrqwq, Otomachi_Una and me sszcdjr.

A few words from our sponsor:

We’re Refact.ai, an open-source AI Coding Assistant, and on November 9th, we’ll be hosting our first round on Codeforces! Winners will receive valuable prizes, and all participants will have a chance to get some exclusive merch from us.

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Prizes:

• 1st place: 500 USDT
• 2nd place: 300 USDT
• 3rd place: 200 USDT
• 4-5th place: 100 USDT
• Top 50 participants will get T-Shirts
• Additionally, 50 random participants from the top 51-500 will receive a T-shirt

Good luck in the contest!

On the right, badges of the authors. From top to bottom, left to right are Error_Yuan, Otomachi_Una, sszcdjr and wyrqwq respectively.

We would like to thank:

• Vladithur for his wonderful coordination.
• programpiggy for providing a few unused problems.
• gyh20, dXqwq, Sugar_fan, 275307894a, Kubic, PEIMUDA, A_zjzj, LMydd0225, abc864197532, N_z__, rui_er, ProjectCF, chenyifanlx, MatrixGroup, wsc2008qwq, EasonLiang, cayaxi09, Hanghang007, SpadeA261, IwannaEATaCUTEcaca-qwq, OctoberEstuary, MrPython, acwing_gza, chromate00, mathtsai, Codula, tibinyte for testing and giving useful feedbacks.
• You, for participating and getting positive delta.
• Last but not least, MikeMirzayanov for great Polygon and Codeforces platforms.

Good Luck & Have Fun!