An extra log week

Codeforces Round 485 got the May 28 - Jun 3 week going (problems, results, top 5 on the left, analysis). OO0OOO00O0OOO0O00OOO0OO has tried an unusual problem solving order, but it didn't really help as tourist was faster overall and got the well-deserved first place. Congratulations!

The round thread is also notable for discussions about modern problemsetting practices (search for Um_nik's replies and surrounding comments).

On Saturday, TopCoder Open 2018 Round 2A saw the top-rated participants enter the competition (problems, results, top 5 on the left, parallel round results, analysis, my screencast). A lot of solutions failed challenges and system test in this round, and after the dust has settled it turned out that bmerry both had the highest coding phase score, and has protected the lead very well by adding 100 challenge points. Well done!

The hardest problem in this round allowed one to get quite creative. You are given 3n sticks with lengths a, a+1, ..., a+3n-1. You need to find any way to split them into n triples in such a way that each triple forms a non-degenerate obtuse triangle, or report that there isn't one. n is up to 500, a is an integer between 1 and 10.

Finally, AtCoder Grand Contest 025 wrapped up the week on Sunday (problems, results, top 5 on the left, analysis). Only Stonefeang was able to solve all problems, and thus got a clear first place. Contestants behind him solved quite varied subsets of problems in an attempt to score most points in the limited time available, but it did not really matter in the end. Congratulations to Stonefeang!

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