Whether or not you went to the ICPC WF 2023 in Luxor, you might remember us from the Indomie trade offer blog a while back.
Aside from my team (rfpermen, me, vioalbert, and siplusplus as coach) in the previous blog, of course our university's team for the 46th WF (Owmicron, ZeroScar, KerakTelor, and Yoshiyuki as coach) also joined us in many of our activities, including finding people to trade and/or give the two boxes of Indomie we brought to Luxor.
In this blog, I'd like to share some of the pictures we (Jollybee, the CP team in our university) took with others during the WF.
UPD: There were several issues with the images; they weren't loading properly. The images are now hosted on ImgBB.
Signed T-Shirts
After doing something similar when I was participating in IOI 2022, I suggested to the others several months ago that we should bring white T-shirts and some markers to WF for people to sign on. siplusplus then bought some clothes markers and printed a bunch of T-shirts with the ICPC logo on it (yes, a bunch of people thought it was an official T-shirt), one for each person. Only two of them were actually used:
Thanks to everyone who signed the shirts – you will forever be remembered in Jollybee's lab, where the shirts will be hung ;)
Photos
We also took a bunch of photos!
E869120 and square1001
ecnerwala – again! – and ksun48
galen_colin and sam571128
neko_nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and steven.novaryo
SecondThread – hopefully you liked our shirts ;)
Bill Poucher
Fredrik Niemelä
And of course, thank you to MikeMirzayanov for the great Codeforces and Polygon platforms:
Finally, here is a picture of us with some fellow Indonesians – Berted, Morphymorphymorphy, and steven.novaryo – during the closing ceremony:
And here's a picture of me playing Luxor (the video game) at the Luxor airport:
Of course, if we asked you to take a picture together, you'd have a pack of Indomie from us, which you might or might not have eaten. Has anyone tried cooking it – and did it taste good?
Despite the fact that a lot of unexpected things happened during the WF, and that the problems weren't exactly our strong suit, I'm very grateful that this WF gave us the chance to meet up with the community. Thanks to everyone who made this happen, and I hope we can meet again in other events in the near future!
Yay!
Thanks for business. We had a great time there with you guys as well. How are you enjoying the Vietnamese noods? :P
Authentic Indomie were great. The taste was noticeably stronger than the Vietnamese version. I'm soooo glad I brought my own local noods to trade with more of the Indo ones.
If you come to Vietnam/HCMC again (perhaps for another regional), hit me up and I'll treat you to some delicious local food. Perhaps we can even trade more noods of the other varieties.
I tried Omachi during the ICPC Asia Pacific Championship last February. It's so good (and so instant)! Thanks for bringing me another pack!
But, I haven't tried any of the noodles from the trade last ICPC World Finals as right after getting back to Indonesia, I felt unwell :(
Thanks for telling us that you actually need to cook Vietnamese Indomie, not just pour hot water over it like cup noodles – now I wonder, should we contact the Vietnamese person who told us otherwise and shock him by this fact? 😅
Wait when did I tell you you need to cook vietnamese indomie? I use plain hot water all the time 👀
The instructions at the back said that we need to cook the noodles first 😦
Actually, I have never tried "cooking" Indomie only by pouring hot water and draining it. Maybe I should try.
Is this where true wisdom has been hiding all along
Although I've always been cooking it with the plain old "pour hot water" method and it has always turned out fine. Maybe you can try and see :P
Now I wonder what will happen if we tried it on Indonesian Indomie 👀
I've done it a couple times (too lazy to turn on my stove in the middle of the night), and it turned out pretty okay every time. You definitely get better results by cooking it though.