Hello Codeforces,

We are very glad to invite you to participate in Hello 2024, which will start on Jan/06/2024 17:35 (Moscow time). You will be given 8 problems and 2.5 hours to solve them. The round will be rated for everyone.

All the problems are written and prepared by me.

We would like to give our sincere thanks to:

• errorgorn for his wonderful coordination!
• Alexdat2000 for translating problem statements.
• dario2994 for coming up with the solution to one of the problems.
• conqueror_of_tourist, iLoveIOI, Um_nik, oolimry, thenymphsofdelphi, Kaitokid, Brovko, Scintilla06, zengminghao, MarcosK, lanhf, beepbeepsheep, DylanSmith, kymmykym, CoDeRoK, wery0, kai824, teruel, asiad, priyanshu.p, chromate00, Blagoj, tibinyte, htetgm, Guevara74, Amrharb, Joshi503, BuzzyBeez, 18o3, nor for testing the round.
• Other testers who I might have forgotten to add here because a different testing gym was used in 2022.
• MikeMirzayanov for the great codeforces and polygon platform.
• You for participating in the round.

The score distribution will be released later.

Hope everyone will enjoy the round!