Hi guys,
The July 2010 Cook-Off, our first ever attempt at a short contest format has now successfully come to an end. This was quite an exciting moment for us and we hope you all had as much fun with it as we did. Successful submissions to the contest started to pour in, in under 30 minutes, proving that we have some highly skilled coders participating on CodeChef. 
BLOG POST UPDATE:
Here are the top 20 best performers of the Cook-Off:
Take a look at the contest rankings here: http://www.codechef.com/rankings/COOK01
At the end of the contest the total submissions are as follows:
1) Head Office Building: 10 successful submissions
2) Ripple-Carry Adder: 18 successful submissions
3) The Black and White Knights: 40 successful submissions
Contest Statistics:
| Length of Contest | Unique Participants | Total Number of Submissions | User who have solved at least one problem |
| 2.5 hours | 215 | 884 | 47 |
| Country | Total Participants | Average Score per User |
| IN | 140 | 0.11 |
| Rest of World | 75 | 0.71 |
Congratulations to all of you and thank you all for participating. This short contest format is an experiment that we are running so we would really appreciate all the feedback you can get. if you would like us to have more contests in this format in the future then please let us know.
We would also like to show our appreciation for our contest moderators, problem setters and tester. David Stolp, AnhDQ, Zac Friggstad and Varun Jalan, thank you for all the help in running a smooth contest.
Make sure you all check out the contest problem editorials here.
Winners of the contest will be contacted on Monday.
Cheers,
Basil
© 2009, Directi Group. All Rights Reserved.
