Hello everyone !
I am glad to announce that the 4th MindCoding Round will take place on 25th of March 2015, 19:00 EET ! We delayed announcing the rounds on CodeForces to be sure our servers would ran smooth and we are ready for this round as our servers supported over 300 participants in the 1st round.
The Scientific Committee of the contest has the following members: Petru Trimbitas (Petru), Puscas Sergiu (Sergiu), Marius Gavrilescu (mgv), Cosmin Rusu (cr.rusucosmin), Gabriel Inelus (gabrielinelus), Onesim Robert (Robert.One), Adrian Scoup and me.
This is the first time this contest is publicly announced on CodeForces and I will talk about the site a little bit. Firstly, you can find a quick-start guide here and you also can try some of our problems from here. The contest is 1:30 hours long and there are 4 tasks for 100, 250, 500 and 1000 points. Like on Codeforces, the points decrease during the contests and you lose points for every resubmission. You will have partial or full feeback (depending on the problem; this will be specified in the statement)
There are 5 places for the Final taking place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania for non-Romanian citizens that are 18+ years old. The accomodation and food will be provided by the organisers. We had some international participants in last rounds, but there are big chances to qualify this round.
GL & HF everyone ! :D
PS : I proposed some problems in the last rounds. I would be glad if you take a look and give some feedback. :)
- https://mindcoding.ro/pb/tournament — easy
- https://mindcoding.ro/pb/kspecialists — medium
- https://mindcoding.ro/pb/bosses — hard
- https://mindcoding.ro/pb/undograph — hard
I also recommend taking a look on some of our interactive problems such as https://mindcoding.ro/pb/eggs.
UPD : The round starts in less than an hour. Don't forget to join our facebook event.
UPD2 : Before and during the round you can ask for questions on our IRC channel.
UPD3: Contest is finished. The editorial has been posted.
Congrats to the winners:
Like on Codeforces, the points decrease during the contests
Better analogy here is TopCoder — because time is counted from moment when you opened a task, not from beginning of contest.
The accomodation and food will be provided by the organisers.
But they don't cover trip expenses, right?
The trip expenses won't be covered.
Thanks, but I'm underage so I won't be able to go to onsite finals, so you can invite 6th one from the list :)