Hello Codeforces! The 9th Stage of the 1st Universal Cup is coming. It will be held from Mar 25th to 26th.

The contest is based on an official ICPC Asia East-Continent regional contest. It has been used in the 2018 ICPC Asia Qingdao Regional Programming Contest, which was prepared by the SUA Programming Contest Problem Setter Team.

Problem setters: zimpha, sfiction, J.T.J.L., shb123, TsReaper, reku, fengsuiyan, ZhouYuChen, MudCoal, NeverLand.Dai.

Testers: chenjb, oipotato, Subconscious, lsmll, jiangshibiao, lzw4896s.

As usual, we have three time windows for participating. You can participate in the contest in the following three time windows:

• Mar 25th 13:00 — 18:00 (UTC +8)
• Mar 25th 19:00 — 24:00 (UTC +8)
• Mar 26th 02:00 — 07:00 (UTC +8)

Please note that you can see two scoreboards in DOMjudge. The 'Local Scoreboard' shows the standings ONLY IN THE CURRENT TIME WINDOW. And the 'Combined Scoreboard' shows all participants, including the onsite participants, and the cup participants in the previous time windows.

Contest link: https://domjudge.qoj.ac/

Universal Cup Scoreboard: https://qoj.ac/ucup/scoreboard

UPD: Now the contest has been uploaded to Gym: The 2018 ICPC Asia Qingdao Regional Programming Contest (The 1st Universal Cup, Stage 9: Qingdao)

About Universal Cup:

Universal Cup is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing trainings for competitive programming teams. Up to now, there are more than 500 teams from all over the world registering for Universal Cup.

A more detailed introduction: https://codeforces.net/blog/entry/111672

Register a new team: https://ucup.ac/register (the registration request will be processed before each stage)

Results of the past stages: https://ucup.ac/results

Terms: https://ucup.ac/terms

Ratings: https://ucup.ac/rating