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Hi CodeCheffers,

The October 2010 Challenge is now over and it’s time to announce the results

But before we do that we shall like to share some Fun Facts about this contest:

1. Special mention to Oleg who stood 1st two times in a row.
2. We have 8 people tied at 13th place.
3. This month we have 4 Indians featured in the Global Top 20 winners.
4. Also this time around we have 6 new faces in the Global Top 20 and they are:
   Srivatsan, Balrog, LiPengcheng, Miroshnichenko Yaroslav, Rushel, Vladislav Isenbaev.
5. This contest has seen the maximum Unique Visitors ever at CodeChef.

Contest Statistics:

And now the leader-board of the October 2010 contest:

India:

01. Yash (winner of prize money Rs. 12000)
02. Nadeem Moidu (winner of prize money Rs. 8000)
03. Srivatsan
04. Surendra Meena
05. Vamsi Kavala
06. Gunjan Sharma
07. Sunny Agrawal
08. Pradeep George Mathias
09. Kaushik Iska
10. Sudipto Das
11. Govardhan Reddy
11. Ishan Dutta
11. Nitin Kumar
11. Baljeet Kumar
11. Vikas
16. Pankaj kumar
16. Girish Kadli
16. Anil Kishore
16. Ishani Parekh
20. Paresh Verma

Global:

01. Oleg (winner of prize money $400)
02. Mark Greve (winner of prize money $300)
03. Lai Luhang
04. Wu Yin
05. Tomaz Hocevar
06. Anton Lunyov
07. Stephen Merriman
08. Balrog
09. LiPengcheng
10. Trinh Tuan Phuong

Congratulations to all.

If you haven’t yet checked out the editorials of the problems to this month’s contest please do so here.

On the 15th of October we are running a 2.5 hours Cook-Off and Warm Up Contest that is organized by Directi Go for Gold Initiative in collaboration with the IIT Kanpur regionals.

If there is anything that you would like to let us know then do comment on this blog post or send in an email to feedback@codechef.com

Cheers,
Basil

P.S. Winners will be contacted shortly.

Dear CodeCheffers,

The CodeChef Cook-Off is back this month and this time it is in collaboration with IIT-Kanpur. The ACM ICPC Regionals are close and this is yet another chance for you to reduce your flab and get coding. IIT Kanpur in partnership with Directi as part of the Go for Gold Initiative brings you the October Cook-Off on the 15th of October, 2010 from 21:30hrs to 00:00hrs IST.

The contest is open to everyone. Along the lines of the ACM ICPC, it will be a team contest – a slight deviation from the previous two Cook-Off’s that we have had. What this means is you may form a team of maximum 3 members to participate. However, submissions will be allowed only from one system at any time. If you have distributed teams, then you need to log on and log out every time you want to submit from a different location.

Visit the contest landing page to participate.

The registrations for the Cook-Off are now open, you can register your team here: http://www.codechef.com/teams/register/COOK03

The October Cook-Off:

• Friday, 15th October
• 9:30 pm to 12:00 am (Indian Standard Time)
• 5 Problems

Cheers!
Team CodeChef

PS: Considering the unanticipated huge response to our last team contest, we have pulled up our socks and have been continuously working towards providing you with a much better experience. Hopefully you will see the difference.

As we approach closer to the ACM ICPC world programming event and everybody is working hard on improving their skills, we thought it would be great for us to have someone who is a professional and doing wonders at CodeChef. Seeing his success in the last few months, he sure is making a name for him self. Yes, we are talking about Rajiv Kumar Aggarwal, the winner of the September Contest. Lets get a sneak peak and see what Rajiv has to say about himself.

Name: Rajiv Kumar Aggarwal
Age: 36
Institute: C.R. State College of Engg., Murthal, Haryana
Company: Teradata India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad
Userid: rajivka

How/When did you start programming?
I started programming after joining my Engineering College.

What do you do when you’re not programming?
I prefer to solve puzzles, watch cricket or sleep.

What do you like most about CodeChef?
It provides the platform to compete with the world’s best programmers and also to learn many new things.

How many hours a day do you program?
8-9 hours in a working day.

If you could eat dinner with any famous person (past or present), who would it be and what dish would you have?
Going out with a famous person is not on my ambition list, unless I see any advantage out of it. I would rather go out with my family/friends.

What is the secret to being a good programmer?
Apart from working hard, one should be logically good. Should be able to think about different ways of solving the problem.

What are your plans for the future?
I am already on right track and see myself contributing for a breakthrough of a new product/technology.

Cheers!
Team CodeChef