Hello Codeforcers!

We are pleased to invite you to participate in CodeTON Round 8 (Div. 1 + Div. 2, Rated, Prizes!). This round will start on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 14:35UTC and will be rated for all participants. There will be 88 problems to be solved in 33 hours, with one divided into two subtasks. Similar to USACO, you will help Farmer John and his cows resolve a series of first world problems. Be there or be square.

This round was cooked up by smax, sum, oursaco, cry, and buffering.

We would like to thank the following people for making the round possible:

• Our favorite cherry TheScrasse for the wonderful and speedy coordination.

• Our MVP testers, Benq and Geothermal, for dedicating so much time to reviewing problems, providing essential feedback, and perfecting the problemset.

• The rest of our testers for their unparalleled efforts: errorgorn, rqi, LipArcanjo, rainboy, MridulAhi, omeganot, darkkcyan, Phi-001, awesomeguy856, JagguBandar, camc, drdilyor, lethan3, rohit2593, willy108, WAtoAC2001, jay_jayjay, -1e11, evenvalue, lunchbox, kaztayev, kondasujay2, maxrgby, htetgm, thehunterjames, GlassesNerd, SunShine11, wozhenshuai, chromate00, I_FloPPed21, MrPavlito, priyanshu.p, ETL, yash_9a3b, Aurora__, nelsi_sousa, susvant, and myvaluska.

• Alexdat2000 for translating the statements to Russian.

• MikeMirzayanov for developing Codeforces and Polygon, or else this contest literally wouldn't exist.

• You, for participating!

Score Distribution:

500−1000−(1250+750)−2250−2500−3000−3000−4500500−1000−(1250+750)−2250−2500−3000−3000−4500

And here is the information from our title sponsor:

Hello, Codeforces!

We, the TON Foundation team, are pleased to support CodeTON Round 8.

The Open Network (TON) is a fully decentralized layer-1 blockchain designed to onboard billions of users to Web3.

Since July 2022, we have been supporting Codeforces as a title sponsor. This round is another way for us to contribute to the development of the community.

The winners of CodeTON Round 8 will receive valuable prizes.

The first 1,023 participants will receive prizes in TON cryptocurrency:

• 1st place: 1,024 TON
• 2–3 places: 512 TON each
• 4–7 places: 256 TON each
• 8–15 places: 128 TON each
• …
• 512–1,023 places: 2 TON each

We wish you good luck at CodeTON Round 8 and hope you enjoy the contest!