Hi all, As usual we will meet for the next TopCoder SRM. The place and time is Stibitz-123 Tuesday August 18 at 16.40 (the coding phase starts at 17.00). Be sure to register in the arena in good time. I will be there just around the start of the match. Also, Google Code Jam is back this year (see http://code.google.com/codejam/). The qualification round starts September 3 and lasts for 24 hours, and it should be quite easy to advance from here. After this three online rounds follow with a large number of advancers from each. The 500 advancers from round 2 will get a t-shirt, and the 25 best in round 3 will get a trip to the finals in California. I think this will be excellent practice for our upcoming local qualification round. Best regards, Mark