Hello, welcome to the first Thornhill Computer Club Contest of 2023! You will have a 1-hour and 30 minute window.

• Contestants may not consult the Internet outside of accessing the relevant parts of the contest via the TSSOJ platform or consulting language documentation, and contestants may not use any prewritten code.
• Contest duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes.
• Number of problems: 5, some with subtasks. There is a 50 submission limit.
• This contest will be Rated.
• Problem setters for this contest: Encodeous, Mystical, and terrarian

Clarification requests for the contest can either be routed through the clarification system provided on TSSOJ or by raising your hand in the meeting. Note that, in particular, clarification requests must come in the form of yes/no questions.

Any suspicious behavior will result in being forcibly ranked at the bottom of the scoreboard.

Prize Distribution

• This contest will have rewards for the top-ranked participants!
• First place: $32
• Second place: $20
• Third place: $15
• Fourth place: $5 + 1 mo of Discord Nitro
• Fifth place: $5

Prizes will be distributed some time next week, as we need to validate the top scoring submissions.

The contest consists of 5 questions in an order of difficulty from easiest to hardest. It is highly recommended to read all of the problems. You will have 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete the contest. After the contest window begins, you may begin at any time. Your personal timer will start counting down, and you will be able to submit until 1 hour and 30 minutes from when you started, or until the hard deadline, whichever comes first.

After joining the contest, you proceed to the Problems tab to begin. You can also go to Users if you wish to see the rankings.

We have listed below some advice as well as contest strategies:

• Start from the beginning. Ties will be broken by the sum of times used to solve the problems starting from the beginning of the contest.
• Remove all extra debugging code and/or input prompts from your code before submitting. The judge is strict — your output must match the judge output exactly.
• Do not pause program execution at the end. The judging process is automated. You should use stdin / stdout to perform input / output, respectively.
• It should be guaranteed that all the problems will be solvable with C++ and Java.

At the end of the contest, you may comment below to appeal a judging verdict. In the case of appeals, the decision(s) of our staff is final.