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Getting ready for ACM-ICPC 2014-2015: weekly trainings on Codeforces
By MikeMirzayanov, 10 years ago, translation, In English

The new season of a collegiate team championship ACM-ICPC is about to start. For example, the registration for the Southern (Saratov) Subregional Contest is already running. I am sure that many participants of the Codeforces rounds will take part in ACM-ICPC this year.

We are launching a series of weekly practice trainings on Codeforces. Naturally, they will be held within Codeforces::Gym. Feel free to participate!

The practice starts on Thursdays at about 12:10 PM (UTC), which is 16:10 Moscow Time. Expected duration is 4-5 hours. We are going to practice using the problems of different contests of the past years. All you need is common sense and observing these simple rules:

  • We will not publish the problem source before the practice starts. We want you to solve the problems on your own in a fair competition. If you use somebody else’s code or cheat in any other way, you will be disqualified. If you don’t want to solve on your own, that’s fine, you don’t have to. But spoiling the practice for others is unacceptable.
  • Do not discuss the problems till the practice ends.
  • We will rarely answer the questions about problems. If you’ve found some obvious bug, please let me know. We will fix the bug and send everybody the note about the fix.
  • If you have a coach account (and you do not participate in the practice), we will be grateful for your help.
  • Please register for the practice with the people from your team who actually participates in it.
  • From time to time, I am going to ask some of the jury of the past contests or coaches from other higher educational institutions to help with preparing or share materials — your understanding and help will be greatly appreciated!
  • if you solved the contest problems before just switch to another training or inform us via problem questions form, we will move you to out-of-competition role.

The first contest 2014-2015 CT S02E01: Codeforces Trainings Season 2 Episode 1 (NEERC 99 + misc) takes place on September, 11, at about 12:10 PM (UTC).

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I believe that codeforces will become more and more perfect. Great thanks to MikeMirzayanov for creating a fine platform,We appreciate everything you do.

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This is going to be my first time in ICPC and I was desperate for such practice sessions.. :) thank you so much MikeMirzayanov :)

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It would be really amazing if the questions could be put up on the site like in regular codeforces rounds instead of the pdfs. I dont know the exact reason as to why pdfs/other file formats are used in gym contests, but it is not as convenient to read the problems from it as it is from the website. Looking positively for the practice contests. Thanks a lot for introducing this amazing training for us :).

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    I think the main reason is the printability of the problemset — most of these contests are team-oriented.

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This is totally awesome ! Thanks Mike , Thanks Codeforces team

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i can't be more grateful .

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but can you put a timer under ordinary contests timer to know the exact time and to be easier to enter contests ?

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Very good way for us to practice

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Will it be rated?

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    Gym contests are not rated. It follows a team format. So its a group of 3 people (generally) This training is for practice and letting you know your grey areas. Take it from that point of view. Though there will be score list, to let you know where you actually stand. :)

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Will the solutions/tutorials/editorials for the practice contests be available?

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