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Bay Area Programming Contest 2025
By BucketPotato, 5 weeks ago, In English

The Bay Area Programming Contest (link to last year's announcement) returns on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Detailed information, which will be updated as the contest day draws nearer, is at bapc.gunncpc.com. You can register for the contest at this link.

The authors for this contest are BucketPotato, ezraft, GusterGoose27, hihitherethere, lazulib2, Westin_sheep. Thanks to our testers: AlperenT, Amazed, amsraman, andrewxu, Benq, canine, eggag32, Extile, izhang, Jasonwei08, lethan3, mwen, PurpleCrayon (more to be added soon!). You can thank (or blame) qpwoeirut for the DOMjudge infrastructure that the contest will be hosted on.

Time and place

The contest day is Sunday, March 2, 2025. It will be held in-person at Gunn High School. We will be providing free lunch for in-person participants. Those who can't make it in person can participate in an online mirror.

Contest Day Schedule (for in-person participants):

  • 10:00 — 10:30 Check-In

  • 10:30 — 10:50 Opening Ceremony

  • 10:50 — 11:30 Practice Contest

  • 11:30 — 12:20 Mini-Events + Lunch

  • 12:45 — 3:45 Contest

  • 3:50 — 4:10 Closing Ceremony

Times are in PT. Click here to see when the contest starts and ends in your timezone.

Contest format and rules

Both the in-person contest and the online mirror will be held through DOMjudge. The contest will be 3 hours long, with 9-13 problems. Scoring will be ICPC-style. Participants can form teams of up to three people.

  • In-person participants are allowed one computer per team. Regarding use of the internet and similar, we will be using the same rules as the USACO-- in particular, participants may only look up basic information about their programming language. Templates, OEIS, generative AI, Codeforces blogs, and similar are not allowed. Teams will be given a printed copy of KACTL. We will review the rules in the opening ceremony.

  • Online participants do not need to follow these rules, since we have no way of enforcing them.

We will create accounts for participants and distribute login information to each team before the contest.

Prizes

Prizes will only be available for in-person precollege teams. More information on available prizes will be on our website, and covered in the opening ceremony.

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BucketPotatorz contest = good contest!

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Yay BAPC! Please allow me to use this opportunity to farm contribution and encourage you to come!!!

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lunchbox orz

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As a BAPC 2024 participant, I believe BAPC is the best one among all bay area in-person contests.

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i look forward to consuming 998244353 slices of pizza

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bucket potato ORZZZZZZZZ

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Awesome, good luck to all.

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As a tester, I promise I will test soon.

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can middle schoolers participate or only high school?

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    Everyone can participate. Middle schoolers are eligible for prizes since they are precollege.

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As a tester, I promise to test 1e9 slices of pizza to ensure quality.

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It is with great regret and sorrow that I must announce I cannot make it to the in-person edition of BAPC 2025. I tried my best to use what little bandwidth I have to contribute to the organization of this wonderful contest, and I'm happy to say that the organizers really didn't need me at all. They've done a great job putting this contest and event together and I think you will enjoy this edition of BAPC very much. Good luck to the participants!

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    As an organizer, I needed ezraft to encourage me. The knowledge that ezraft is existent is the motivation for my life and I am eternally grateful for all the "encouragement" ezraft has given me.

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      buddy u literally paid for the acc ur currently have bru... i was there when u exchanged your ipad brawl stars rights for this kid's cf acc.

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    It is truly tragic that the UCSB Trans and Queer Commission is meeting on the day of the contest. You will be missed at BAPC 2025.

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As a tester, I can confirm that this contest will be YUGE and TREMENDOUS because I know all the testers personally, they will make BAPC great again.

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bkpt orz

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ezraft orz

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BucketPotato ofz

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is there estimated range of problem difficulties :catoars:

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Cool

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Got an email saying teams will get BAPC shirts. Is it applicable for teams participating online? Asking out of curiosity as I registered for the online mode and still got an email saying that.

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