Hello, Codeforces! I'm pleased to announce the 5th stage of the 2nd Universal Cup. It will be held from October 14th to October 15th.
The contest was prepared for you by the SPbSU LOUD Enough team (tranquility, nikgaevoy and Kaban-5). We (the authors) would also like to thank Gassa, snarknews and SoshkinRoman for some useful feedback and technical assistance. And, of course, we would like to thank the organizers of the Universal Cup for letting us hold our contest as a stage of the Universal Cup and share it with a wider audience.
This contest was first used in the Petrozavodsk Programming Camp Winter 2023, and also appeared in the 2023 ICPC Training Camp powered by Huawei and the Hello Muscat 2023 Bootcamp. If you participated in any of those, please refrain from participating in this stage of the Universal Cup.
It is important to note that this stage is much more difficult then an average ICPC regional. All problems (even the easier ones) are rather tough. Therefore, don't feel discouraged even if your team can't solve anything. Solving even one or two problems in this stage is already a big achievement.
We think that all problems contain interesting ideas in them and we are delighted to share them with the community. In particular, we think that teams preparing for ICPC World Finals have a lot to learn from our contest. Good luck and have fun!
You can participate in the contest in the following time windows: - TODO - TODO - TODO - TODO - TODO - TODO
Contest link: https://contest.ucup.ac
Universal Cup Scoreboard: https://qoj.ac/ucup/scoreboard