Hello, Codeforces!

We are happy to invite you to participate in The 2026 Homs Collegiate programming contest that was held on the 7th of September in Latakia, Syria.

The problems were authored and prepared by: ali2005_syr, Wael_Zaiback, Majedh, Mr_Coder7, PROOF_BY_ED, ABDnotABC, y0uKn0wWh0, It_is_time and me.

I would like to give our sincere thanks to:

• 3atori, FetFot, Rising-coder, MOUFLESS, hocln, Mohammad_Hacker for orange testing.

• Amgad, Grizoo, Khaled_Al_Awad for purple testing

• Jean7, antabifadel, KingOfHababeesh, Lord_Wrongmort, PixelMaster, Hamzeh_Miqdad, rasoulist, Future_Hustler, Ahmad_OS, nonchALAAnt, MazenXv, Mr_figoo, scheitern_1, Baran__Battal, Rimiii, Ray7ana, KAKAROT-M, SHAWW, MEEDL7 for blue testing.

• Karam_Kallasi, theINVINCIBLE, 2nd_Chance_maybe, SMA665, MHMD_3R, Hadil-sh, Monzer_DA, Mo_Austa, JamaloCopter, lawwash._., stay_in_gray for cyan testing.

• lujain_sh, Weird00, the.Mage, MostafaSabsabi, Shisui, MohammadAlGhareeb, ultra_V, Mac.Genius, Zingan for green testing.

• Danasaur, Hazeeen, Better_Call_Abdul, Rei_0, LazyXcoder, maSa_miSo, Pocoyo, itsSedra for grey testing.

We would love to hear your feedback on the problems in the comments section. We hope you have a blast participating in this contest and wish you the best of luck!