Hello, Codeforces!

We are happy to announce that the Syrian Virtual University and Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology Collegiate Programming Contest 2026 is now available for practice in the Codeforces Gym.

The official contest took place on July 23, 2026, and featured 14 problems of varying difficulty.

You can find the contest here.

The problems were prepared by:

3atori, Anas_Da, Fetfot, Jamalocopter, MOUFLESS, Mr_Coder7, and Rising-coder.

Thanks to Kaitokid for helping us improving many of the problems.

Also, we would like to deeply thank everyone who tested the problems, you guys are the best:

2nd_Chance_maybe, ADAR2002, Ahmad-Al-Ateek, Ahmad_OS, Alien-X, Amgad, Amr.7, at2c, Aziz_05, Barakat., Better_Call_Abdul, Blossom__, Buffalocopter, cgmoreda, Doraemonn, El_Qorsan, employed, FarhanHY, FTS_Problem_C, Grizoo, Hadil-sh, hammoudehib, HAYA, hocln, I_will_keep_trying, Igor_Parfenov, iMido, KAKAROT-M, Karam_Kallasi, khalaf, Khaled_Al_Awad, LazyXcoder, Lily_, limbo16, Mac.Genius, Majedh, name2, Mohammad_Hacker, MohammadAlGhareeb, Muhannadooov, Nananah, nonchALAAnt, Rei_0, samsoom, SHAWW, Shisui, SMA665, stay_in_gray, the.Mage, the_seal, theINVINCIBLE, ultra_V, Um_nik, Vectors_Master, Weird00, y0uKn0wWh0, yousefAbukhass, and Zingan.

We realized today we never had a photo together for 7 authors. I can confirm that the union of people in both photos has at least 7 authors.

Thank you as well to everyone involved in organizing and running the onsite contest.

We hope you enjoy the problems!

Good luck and have fun!