Introducing the Go for Gold March Long Challenge!
Competitive programmers, get ready! The Go for Gold Long Challenge is back with its third iteration, bringing another thrilling opportunity to test your problem-solving skills and climb the leaderboard on Codeforces!
After the success of the first iteration, we are excited to present yet another round of engaging and challenging problems for the community. Whether you're a seasoned competitor or just starting out, this contest is designed to offer a balanced mix of difficulty levels to help everyone push their limits.
What’s Special About This Challenge?
- Handcrafted Problems: The contest is a mix of some classical educational problems picked from CF and some fresh algorithmic challenges carefully curated to test your logical thinking, algorithmic optimisation skills, and competitive programming prowess.
- Diverse Difficulty Levels: Problems ranging from beginner-friendly to advanced, ensuring that everyone has something to tackle.
- Community-Driven Contest: Hosted in the Go for Gold group on Codeforces, this contest is built by the community, for the community!
- Learning and Improvement: Get exposed to new problem-solving techniques and discuss solutions with fellow competitors after the contest.
Contest Detail :
Please join the codeforces group : https://codeforces.me/group/OseQ3LxgeG and register for the contest.
- Start time : 21th March 2025, 03:00 PM (IST)
- End time : 30th March 2025, 12:00 AM (IST)
Why Should You Join?
- Enhance Your Competitive Programming Skills
- Gain Exposure to Unique Problems
- Engage with an Active Community of Programmers
Contributors
All problems are prepared and tested by kalpitdon7 ,Enigma27,sidlad,ludo., BiggestOtaku, heyyyankit, OIaspirant2307 and me (sv1shan)
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.
The countdown has begun! Mark your calendars and prepare to Go for Gold once again. We can’t wait to see your amazing submissions.
Stay tuned for more updates and happy coding!
Update : Two new problems have been released.
Note: We are going to be adding more problems as the contest goes on.








kalpitdon7 orz !!
Hope u enjoy the problems :)
Hope you will like the contest!!
If you want to help in setting and testing next month's long, please fill the form or DM me on codeforces.
kalpitdon7 orz
heyyyankit orz!
Manas_DixiT OTZ
Started with the challenge and I am already loving it.
Thanks to the GoForGold team and problem setters for the problems.
Enigma27 orz!
Auto comment: topic has been updated by Enigma27 (previous revision, new revision, compare).
In problem A, I have a doubt regarding my approach. What I'm thinking is that the answer to each query is the sum of the top k elements in the subarray [l,r], considering only positive elements. If an element is negative, I set it to 0 at the beginning while taking input.
To find the sum of the top k elements, I'm using SQRT decomposition (Mo's Algorithm) with two multisets—one for maintaining the top k elements and another for the remaining elements other than the top k. But, I'm getting a wrong answer on test case 9.
Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong!!?
Enigma27 Is it possible to make submissions visible post-contest?
yes, Let me open up it for everyone to see the submissions
Shit! Problem K is mod by 1e8 + 7. It's really not an interesting problem.