Invitation to CodeQuest 2.0! — IIIT Kottayam

Revision en19, by accord, 2026-03-27 22:23:14

Hello Codeforces!

We, the Coders' Club of IIIT Kottayam, are thrilled to announce a second iteration of Codequest, our competitive programming contest!

Format

The problemset will have 8 problems of varying difficulty, and may not be in strict difficulty order (rough difficulty order — but try all questions!).

One or more problems may be interactive. Read the guide for interactive problems. The contest will follow the standard Codeforces rules, and please note that the use of AI is strictly prohibited. If caught using AI, you will be immediately disqualified.

Prizes

The contest will have a prize pool of ₹5,000 (INR):

  1. ₹2,500 for first place
  2. ₹1,500 for second place
  3. ₹1,000 for third place

Participation certificates will be provided to all participants. To be eligible, please register on Unstop as well.

Organizers

Contest Coordinated by: accord.

Problems Authored by: accord, shxun, hardhacker17, vishwanathdarur27, and notalone008.

Thanks to our Testers: s-m-s, Precizne, Mubaris2004, merelyacryptid, and hpthehappy2006.

Good luck, and we hope you have fun with the problems!

Updates

Upd. Added contest link

Upd 2. Questions will be in rough difficulty order

Upd 3. One or more problems may be interactive. Read the guide for interactive problems.

Upd 4. If you lost access to the contest, you were removed due to fair play violation (it isn't a mistake). Please do not DM the authors. If you believe it was genuine mistake, you can comment on this blog. Also note that registration closed half an hour after the contest start, so you can't register new accounts now.

Upd 5.

Contest is over!

Results will be (tentatively) announced Monday, after plag checks.

Editorial should be out in a day.

Thank you!

Upd 6.

Editorial is out.

Congratulations to the winners!

  1. Dominater069
  2. Lucifer_K
  3. Ridham.

A big thank you to everyone for participating!

Tags iiit kottayam, coding contest

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