(After 3 months) Hello again, Codeforces!

We are glad to invite you to participate in Codeforces Round 968 (Div. 2), which will start on Aug/25/2024 17:35 (Moscow time). You will be given 6 problems and 2 hours to solve them. Two problems are divided into two subtasks.

This round will be rated for participants whose rating is below 2100. Participants with higher rating can participate unofficially.

The problems were authored and prepared by me.

I would like to thank:

• 244mhq for perfect coordination.
• A_G, wutongchun, yeminghan for red testing.
• DisconnectedGraph, small_peter, JWRuixi for orange testing.
• yinhee, QwQwf, Jryno1, sinsop90 for purple testing.
• dieselhuang, WRuperD, CSQ31, gdf_yhm for blue testing.
• liujunyi123, Ender32k for cyan testing.
• ishaandas1 for green testing.
• Our previous testers Um_nik, antontrygubO_o, CharlieV, YuJiahe, Edwin__VanCleef for testing a subset of the problems.
• MikeMirzayanov for the great Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

• You

  for participating!

Scoring distribution: $$$500 - 750 - 1000 - (1000 - 1250) - (1750 - 1000) - 2500$$$.

Good luck & Have fun!