About

This contest is the first one in the Grimoire of Code's CDC Series 2021. We will be holding similar contests every saturday.
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Rules

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Each challenge has equal score of 100 points irrespective of its difficulty.
Participant will get 100 points for a problem, if he passes all the test cases, and 0 points otherwise.
There might be questions where the Participant will get partial points for a problem, if he passes some test cases.
If a participant submits more than one solution per challenge, then the participant’s score will reflect the highest score achieved. In a game challenge, the participant's score will reflect the last code submission.
Participants are ranked by score. If two or more participants achieve the same score, then the tie is broken by the total time taken to submit the last solution resulting in a higher score