Good evening.

Today's round is mine, as the previous one. This round will be for participants of the second division. Participants of the first division can take part in the round out of competition.

RAD, Connector, it4.kp and MikeMirzayanov helped me to prepare this round. Delinur translated statements into English.

Contest will be in the good old tradition of Codeforces. No any innovations, pretty short and clear statements.

Points for problems are standard: 500-1000-1500-2000-2500.

Good luck everyone!

UPD. Round was ended, ratings was updated.

Winners:

1. tsundere

2. jte

3. abacadaea

4. ltaravilse

5. Billy_Herrington

Hello everyone!

I am the author of problems of today round. RAD, Connector, it4.kp helped me to prepere this contest. Delinur thanslated statements into english.

It will be a thematic contest. And the theme is Disgaea.

Etna, Laharl and Flonne - main characters of the game

Hi all!

Now it's time for 80th Codeforces Beta Round.

The authors of the contest are: Alex_KPR, winger, RAD, Connector, it4.kp. I hope all problems will be interesting for you and not extremely hard. ;)

Today is Connector's birthday — so, let's congratulate him together!

Good luck and have fun!
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Thank you for your action! =)

Top 10 participants in the first division are:

There are only two participants who beat problem E: the winner of the contest SergeiRogulenko and MBabin who gets 76th place.

Top 3 participants in the second division are:

Congratulations and good luck at the next time!

Official tutorial will be added later. But AlexanderBolshakov already wrote the tutorial about most of problems.

Problems were translated by Delinur.
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Tutorial is here.

Hello!

I'm, Valeriy Samojlov, graduating student of SPbSU,  present you codeforces beta round 79. Today you will meet with boy Gerald and will help him to solve some living problems. 

Today we have usually cost of problems in both divisions: 500 - 1000 - 1500 - 2000 - 2500.

It my first codeforces round, I hope, problems will be interesting.

I want to thank Artem Rakhov (RAD) for big help with preparation of problems, Makar Krasnoperov (Connector) for some useful remarks and Maria Belova for translation.

Good luck for participants of both dovisions!

Contest is over! Congratulation to winners!

Division 1:

1. RAVEman

2. ilyakor

3. ACRush

Division 2:

1. SuperLight

2. xiaowuc1

3. Timur_Sitdikov

Editoral a appeared.

Hi all!
Unknown Language Round #3 is going to take place on 30th of July. (This very Saturday -- Friday for some parts of the world)
This is the third contest of its type. The rules are easy (and fun):

1.     Scoring is similar to that of ACM-ICPC.
2.     The contest is not rated.
3.     You can submit your code using only one language. This language is a secret and will be announced only when the contest begins! (We'll expect lots of coding bugs and syntax mistakes!)

Congratulations to Petr Mitrichev (Petr), the Yandex.Algorithm 2011 Champion!

Congratulations also to Dmitry Dzhulgakov (dzhulgakov), Makoto Soejima (rng_58), Ivan Metelsky (ivan.metelsky), Alexey Levin (levlam) and Gennady Korotkevitch (tourist) who placed 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 respectively! They solved as many problems as the champion. Full results are available here

Problems turned out to be really difficult: nobody managed to solve more than 3 problems during the 2 hours of competition. Problem A was considered much simpler than all others by the contest authors, but less than half of participants could solve it, and even the champion lacked 30 seconds to fix the last bug. Only one coder could solve problem E: Xhark from Korea.

Problem E was suggested by Ilya Kornakov (ilyakor) who is also a developer in my group at Yandex :) Problem A about domino and a guy named Gena was powered by Ivan Popelyshev (ivan.popelyshev). Problem B — Stanislav Pak, C — Denis Yarets. All three are also our employees. Problem D was suggested by Artem Ripatti. My problem was rejected at the last minute, so it will wait for you at the Petrozavodsk training camp :)

Thanks to all finalists, authors, participants out of competition, contest organizers, MIPT for the accomodations and the main sponsor — Yandex.

Good luck to everybody who competes in the OpenCup onsite today!

Petr and our foreign guests rng_58, wata and dolphinigle

ivan.metelsky, MikeMirzayanov and pieguy