Hi, CF community :)

I'm pleased to announce the 1st edition of Teens Ramadan Marathon, a Marathon managed by Obour STEM CS Club and Gharbia STEM Hack Club, designed by some Egyptian teens (and 2 university students) that will run throughout Ramadan month, from 1st Ramadan to 29th Ramadan (corresponding to 1st March to 29th March in Gregorian calendar).

The Marathon will start in Saturday, 1st of March, at 10PM (UTC+2), and will end in Saturday, 29th of March, at 10PM (UTC+2). It will consist of four separated contests, each contest will run for 7 days and one problem will be added daily to the running contest at 10 PM (at Cairo time zone UTC+2), to have 7 problems per contest and total of 28 problem in the marathon.

You can join our Discord server, and our Codeforces group for more updates.

About the style of the marathon

• The problems are CPC-styled that are designed for newcomers, no advanced topics needed, all the problems are solvable by basic topics (greedy, maths, ad-hocs, etc.). The problems won't be sorted according to the difficulty, so think carefully before giving up.
• The standings will be available during and after each contest.
• Each wrong submission (WA, TLE, ILE, etc.) will add a 20-minute penalty (penalty is the sum of the time taken to get the first accepted in each problem).
• The final score will be published in a blog on our group, with rankings based to the number of the problems solved and penalty.
• The top 20 participants of the entire marathon will be contacted after the event for certificates.
• The available programming languages are C/C++ only.

Note: Cheating via AI, Google search, or friends is strictly prohibited. The judges will disqualify anyone caught cheating!

Another note: if you're not a newcomer, the problems won't be educational for you, so don't smurf pls.

And finally, I'd like to introduce and thank:

• Our Technical team (Setters, testers or both): Hana05, -MOZA- (the 1st university guy), enfp, Kachef, m7md.ahraf, O_Elmasry, .Habiba. and Ziad_Ebrahim.

• Our Designers : hAneeNn, Hikaruu_, Elaine151 (the 2nd university guy), and enfp.