Dear contestants,

As you all know there have been glitches in this month’s contest problem. Needless to say they were glaring and should not recur. We are sorry.

Life has come a full circle for us in the last couple of weeks. The other day we were basking in the glory of completing one eventful year and being so privileged to get all your patronage. We were bragging about our achievements! And now we have to face this to bring us back to our feet.

But we see a silver lining in this too. We have been inundated with lot of emails and feedback showing us how much you care. As we have been telling you time and again, we value each and every comment of yours and will certainly try to improve from here on. The kinks have been identified and we will now work with renewed vigor to get it all in place.

The “Traffic Jam problem” has been fixed and the scorecard has been updated. Please let us know in case there are still any discrepancies. We are extending the contest by a couple of more days. The contest now ends on 13th of March, 3 PM IST. We know that there is no substitute for the time spent by all of you on the problem. But this is the least we could do to try and be fair to all.

And do we need to say that we will need your continued support in our endeavor to make Codechef the way you want to see it? It will take us some time to get there. Please bear with us and be with us.

Keep sending your comments and let us know what you think and how can we improve further. Point out our mistakes but please do not hate us.

Anup