Hi CodeCheffers,

The May Challenge 2011 is over!

This month we saw a good distribution of difficulty levels across the problems, similar to last month the overall participation has been consistently increasing . We also saw some intense battle for the top spot between the top 10 global winners, eventually Liang Yaxiong from China bagged the top rank in his very first contest at CodeChef. Congratulating him and all the other winners for their participation.

Before we move on to the next section of the blog post, a special mention of the people who made this contest possible:

Zac Friggstad, AnhDQ, Anton Lunyov and Snigdha Chandan were the problem setters while  David Stolp was the diligent tester of this month’s contest.

Lets look at some Statistics and then move on to see the final winners list.

Contest Statistics:

Winners list for the May 2011 Contest:

India:

01. Balakrishnan Varadarajan (winner of prize money Rs. 12000)
02. arijit91 (winner of prize money Rs. 8000)
03. ishandutta2007
04. Balajiganapathi
04. coders1122
04. Gagandeep Bhatia
07. Gunjan Sharma
08. pikku
09. prashantb1984
10. calc_saransh
11. vamsi_kavala
12. vin_74
13. deepangupta91
14. codecrux
15. mcsharma1990
16. wacko_jacko
17. yak
18. yash_coder
19. javadecoder
20. dudechandan123

Global:

01.  dumbear (winner of prize money $400)
02. Tomasz Czajka (winner of prize money $300)
03. hanshuai
04. skyfire
05. kohyatoh
06. gennady.korotkevich
07. Oleg
08. ACRush
09. al13n
10. EgorK

Congratulations to all.

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

We are running a 2.5 hours Cook-Off that is scheduled for 29th May 2011 at 21:30 IST

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,
Harsh Munshaw