Hello fellow programmers,

We want to reach out to the best programmers around and what better place to find them then in the numerous mailing lists of software being developed by diverse people from all parts of the globe, students of reputed institutes all over, and the winners of various programing contests. We do not intend to spam people or to take up there precious time. This is just to bring to your notice a unique opportunity to pit your skills against thousands of programmers who like you love programming and a good challenge.

we apologize if this mail caused you any inconvenience.

The battle for programming supremacy is on... Information regarding the competition follows...

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad invites programmers and hackers from all over the world to pit their skills against each other in a battle for programming supremacy! This is a synchronous algorithm-intensive programming contest scheduled for Jan 26th,2004 from 1400 hrs to 1900 hrs. This contest is open for all students and professionals.

CodeCraft - The Online Programing Contest being held at THREADS - The Techfest is 5 hours online programing contest where you will be given 8 problems to solve.

Prizes(in INR) to be won are...

Prizes for top 3 teams ... 1st Prize Rs 8,000 2nd Prize Rs 4,000 3rd Prize Rs 2,000

Prize for the first accepted submission of any problem... Rs 500

2 bonus questions will be released during the contest, which wont add to your contest score but will earn you... 1st accepted submission Rs 500 2nd accepted submission Rs 200

T-Shirts to be given to top 20 teams, team with first submission and bonus question winners.

For rules and more information about the contest you can log on to http://students.iiit.net/~felicity/codecraft/

So gear up for hours of algorithms, programming, adrenalin, and of course, a LOT of coffee!

And please try to spread this information in and around your institution/colleagues/friends helping us to getting more and more enthusiasts for the contest.

-- CodeCraft Team THREADS '04 @ FELICITY '04 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad http://students.iiit.net/~felicity