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Getting ready for ACM-ICPC 2016-2017: weekly trainings on Codeforces
By MikeMirzayanov, history, 8 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 Wednesdays at about 13:10 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 2016-2017 CT S03E01: Codeforces Trainings Season 3 Episode 1 - 2010 Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC 10) takes place on September, 7, at about 13:10 (UTC).

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How can we register?

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Will there be some kind of editorial after the contest? Or are the problems well known enough that we can find tutorials for them easily?

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    I think the problems are from past ACM-ICPC regional contests so it would be easy to find solutions and/or test data on the internet.

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    8 years ago, # ^ |
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    Probably discuss them here below :!

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Oh boy, it's time for ACM-ICPC, hopefully I can somehow make it into my school's team as a freshmen. X)

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One machine, isn't it?

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Will these practice rounds be rated or not?

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I think that the contest should be conducted every six days. I have classes on Wednesday evening this entire semester :(

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Is there any contest today ?

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No more contests for the last several weeks? Is the training season already finished?

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    Yes, most regionals already took place! I think it's natural that we're back to usual Div1/Div2 contests.

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    Yes, this season is closed. Hope to make the season 04.

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