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Codeforces Round 997 (Div. 2)
By nifeshe, 18 hours ago, In English

Hi, Codeforces!

I'm delighted to invite you to the best/second best/third best round of 2025 so far! Codeforces Round 997 (Div. 2) will be held on Jan/17/2025 17:35 (Moscow time). You will be presented with at least $$$6$$$ and at most $$$6$$$ problems, one of which might be divided into two subtasks, and $$$2$$$ hours to solve them.

Many of you may not believe it, but the problems were authored and written by nifeshe with a great help from maomao90. Moreover, I would like to thank:

The score distribution is as follows: $$$500-1250-1500-2000-2250-(2750+1250)$$$.

I hope you will find a non-empty subset of problems to be interesting. Good luck!

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According to the score distribution, it seems a bit easier than last div2 Round ?!

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    It's not related .

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      WOO , I haven't known that yet.I have just supposed this score is equal to difficulty (

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        no it's not , as cry pointed out in his own blog here

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          thanks for link;

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            16 hours ago, # ^ |
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            👍

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So now the LGM tag isn't even good enough for the "And You for participating!" line. They've trampled all over the meaning of the word legendary.

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16 hours ago, # |
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Believe it or not, I tested.

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As a participant, i will try to solve A within 5 minutes.

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Hope we can have easier E and F to solve. E and F for last Div.2 are not fit for rated participant(but it has nothing to do with me thinking they are good problems, especially E is interesting), only two can solve E and no one can solve F is abnormal.

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what is the contest duration

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I think this is the new shortest official contest blog, beating the previous contest's blog.

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Hoping for the contest to have >2 solves on E, F! (oops)

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B seems harder than usual

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If I don't become specialist in this contest then I'll

spoiler
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I think it will be interesting round !

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This has probably been answered before, but why not have all the rounds on weekends? Americans can not compete in standard-time weekday contests.

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    If you can't even compete in standard-time weekday contests, are you even free?

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