Hello, Codeforces!
We are happy to invite you to participate in The 2026 Homs Collegiate programming contest that was held on the 7th of September in Latakia, Syria.
The problems were authored and prepared by: ali2005_syr, Wael_Zaiback, Majedh, Mr_Coder7, PROOF_BY_ED, ABDnotABC, y0uKn0wWh0, It_is_time and me.
I would like to give our sincere thanks to:
3atori, FetFot, Rising-coder, MOUFLESS, hocln, Mohammad_Hacker for orange testing.
Amgad, Grizoo, Khaled_Al_Awad for purple testing
Jean7, antabifadel, KingOfHababeesh, Lord_Wrongmort, PixelMaster, Hamzeh_Miqdad, rasoulist, Future_Hustler, Ahmad_OS, nonchALAAnt, MazenXv, Mr_figoo, scheitern_1, Baran__Battal, Rimiii, Ray7ana, KAKAROT-M, SHAWW, MEEDL7 for blue testing.
Karam_Kallasi, theINVINCIBLE, 2nd_Chance_maybe, SMA665, MHMD_3R, Hadil-sh, Monzer_DA, Mo_Austa, JamaloCopter, lawwash._., stay_in_gray for cyan testing.
lujain_sh, Weird00, the.Mage, MostafaSabsabi, Shisui, MohammadAlGhareeb, ultra_V, Mac.Genius, Zingan for green testing.
Danasaur, Hazeeen, Better_Call_Abdul, Rei_0, LazyXcoder, maSa_miSo, Pocoyo, itsSedra for grey testing.
We would love to hear your feedback on the problems in the comments section. We hope you have a blast participating in this contest and wish you the best of luck!
As an author, I’m sorry. I had a great problem, but I ended up using it for a different contest.
It's same but different , If you know you know
Link?
It's linked under the blog.
But you're correct I should also add it in the main text.
Thank you for reminding me.
Who's orange ?
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As a tester, these problems were so exquisite that I wished for a mere second that I was from Homs to take part in the official contest, but then I remembered that their Kebbah isn't as good as ours.
As an author, I hope you enjoy the round. And Apra, please change your password. :D
GLHF!
As a contestant, the problemset was excellent, but where is my cup?
As a tester, testing this round was an absolute brain teaser. The problems were so creative, I almost forgot I was supposed to find bugs, not just enjoy solving them! Great job authors!
Really enjoyed testing this contest, nice one :)
As a tester, I think you're really going to enjoy these problems!
As a tester , I think considering some CS2 playtime in your schedule can help solve some problems !
As a tester, I highly recommend this problemset and BTW
Apra's problemset are underrated!!
I hobe nadeem qualifies to SCP next year.
Problem L can be solved in $$$O(q\log q)$$$ with segtree: 394449010