Hello Codeforces!
We are excited to invite you to compete in the California Informatics Competition (CALICO Fall ‘22)! The contest will take place on Saturday, November 26, 2022 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Registrations are now open and will be until Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time, so register here while you can! The contest will take place virtually on our custom judge platform.
The California Informatics Competition (CALICO) is a semiannual team programming contest organized by students at the University of California, Berkeley. We create original problems to encourage students to grow their problem-solving skills and learn algorithms in fun and exciting ways. Check out our website to learn more about the contest and join our discord server to get announcements, make teams, hang out, and more!
The contest will be 3 hours long and you can compete solo or in a team of up to 3. There will be around 12 problems spanning a wide range of difficulty from Div 4 all the way to Div 1 and everything in between. Some problems will have bonus test sets, where more efficient or advanced solutions can earn additional points. One or two of the problems may be interactive. Anyone can compete in the contest, but only pre-college students will be eligible to win prizes. We also plan to release editorials immediately after the contest. More details will be released as the contest date approaches.
These awesome problems and editorials are written, prepared, and tested by the CALICO Team, including plourde27, yjp20, spiralsim, TheKingAleks, ss1237, fatant, bradley.louie1, KradecaNaLukcheta, alfphaderp, voidcs, vcivek, skywire2000, and many more!
We’ve had a ton of fun creating these problems! We think there will be something interesting for everyone, regardless if you’re totally new or an experienced competitor.
Good luck on the contest!
As a writer for this upcoming contest, I think we have a very cool set of problems! Hope you like linguistics, topology, Minecraft, and sausages!
Good luck everyone!
i love mince raft
omg sausages??!?!
im sold.
Good luck everyone
im literally so excited for calico fall 2022 no way this is happening im literally pooping my pants
spring calico was the best contest of my life!!! i love calico :blobheart:
As yet another problem writer for this contest, I also think we have a very cool (and fun) set of problems! Good luck and we hope you enjoy our contest! :)
Tbh didn't expect my first comment on CF to be how I'm one of the problem writers too... (I'm not gonna tell you how good the tasks will be cause you have to come and see them yourself!)
CALICO is bussin !
As a problem writer for this contest, I am enjoying the different feeling of writing problems as opposed to solving them. I hope you have as much fun writing the contest as I am making it!
As an organizer, we have many new organizers this season, so we'll show some exciting changes that we'd like feedback on!