Invitation to GoForGold Long Challenge — Jan 2025

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Hello, Codeforces Community!

We are excited to introduce the GoForGold Long Challenges.

The long challenge format is where contestants are given a long period of time, usually a week or several days, to work on a set of problems. Some notable examples include CodeChef Long Challenges (discontinued) and HackerEarth Circuits (discontinued).

We will host GoForGold Long Challenges every month .

The duration will be ~10 days (from Friday afternoon to next Sunday midnight).

Why Long Challenges?

Short contests are fun, and almost all the recognized competitions are in this format only. The adrenaline rush they provide is what makes CP a sport, but there are some really good benefits of Long challenges :

Longer duration allows us to give contests in a much more relaxed environment.
We can attempt much harder problems as compared as we have more time to crack it.
There is a bigger room for learning a new algorithm, data structure, or some non-trivial trick or technique in a long contest.
As many participants are trying the same problems for 7-10 days, thus you have a larger community to discuss the problem.
The community is much more active because of the longer duration of the contest.
Many people miss the contests because of odd timing, clashes with their exams, etc in short contests but here everyone can participate as per their own convenience.
In a typical short contest, participants solve the problems which are easy for them in the first half and then solve the problems which really matter to them in the second half. In a long challenge you solve those easier problems on the first day and then spend the rest of the days on the problems which will challenge you.

This is a community driven initiative and all the problems are prepared/picked by the community. This is the first iteration and the problems will be a mix of old and new problems of varying difficulty level (800-2700). The nature of the problem will be educational and not ad-hoc.

We will also release topics and hints on day-7 so that participants will have 3 more days in which they can learn the concept and try the problem again. We will host the post contest discussion of the contest along with some learning sessions on the topics involved.

You can join our discord server for any questions or volunteering for future contests: Discord Invite
From the next iteration as we will get more volunteers and sponsors, we will try to have all new problems. If you want to contribute : Please fill this form.