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I started writing a blog on my experience at the Indian ICPC Regionals of 2019-20 (the previous season as of this post) slightly more than a year back [here](https://codeforces.net/blog/entry/76290). I stopped after 2 blogposts due to various reasons: World Finals not happening, our team losing interest in CP in general, and I kind of wanted to finish the series after the whole season arc was completed. With both my teammates retiring before this season and World Finals finally looking possible in October, I decided to revive it, so I would be able to publish a final post after WF and be done with this season :D. This seemed like the best time to post, since Amrita regionals has it's online round on 10th July, so many teams would probably be up-solving old regionals, and it might be interesting to compare how you performed vs how we did in the contest setting — what mistakes we made, and what you should avoid. It's also a nice way to preserve my memories, and to hype people up for onsite regionals hopefully, whenever they happen :).↵
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You can read the blog [here](http://thesestraythoughts.blogspot.com/2020/05/qualifying-for-icpc-world-finals-2020.html). Thanks to [user:aryanc403,2021-07-01] and [user:Whiplash99,2021-07-01] for "testing" the blogpost and making sure I didn't make major blunders!↵
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If enough people are interested, I'll also write a blog about our Asia West regionals experience. I don't know if I'll be writing about more ICPC regional experiences (with this regional being online, all I might be able to write about is the actual contest time), but I was planning to cover a few more topics that I wanted to talk about in my blog; such as "Research as an undergrad", "Applying to top MS programs", "Why in the US", "Why I think Anime is so goodamazing" and other stuff in which the reader will hopefully be able to glean something useful from my mistakes and insights, or atleast enjoy the content. Since codeforces is obviously not a good place to share such stuffan article about things irrelevant to CP, if you want to continue to read my blog you can either follow my personal Twitter (which might come off as spammy) or subscribe to my blog. ere I'll post updates [here](https://twitter.com/EndearingKimi) or subscribe to my blog. I'd also be interested in knowing if people have specific requests as to what I should be writing about.↵
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Thanks for reading, and hope the read is enjoyable! :)
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I started writing a blog on my experience at the Indian ICPC Regionals of 2019-20 (the previous season as of this post) slightly more than a year back [here](https://codeforces.net/blog/entry/76290). I stopped after 2 blogposts due to various reasons: World Finals not happening, our team losing interest in CP in general, and I kind of wanted to finish the series after the whole season arc was completed. With both my teammates retiring before this season and World Finals finally looking possible in October, I decided to revive it, so I would be able to publish a final post after WF and be done with this season :D. This seemed like the best time to post, since Amrita regionals has it's online round on 10th July, so many teams would probably be up-solving old regionals, and it might be interesting to compare how you performed vs how we did in the contest setting — what mistakes we made, and what you should avoid. It's also a nice way to preserve my memories, and to hype people up for onsite regionals hopefully, whenever they happen :).↵
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You can read the blog [here](http://thesestraythoughts.blogspot.com/2020/05/qualifying-for-icpc-world-finals-2020.html). Thanks to [user:aryanc403,2021-07-01] and [user:Whiplash99,2021-07-01] for "testing" the blogpost and making sure I didn't make major blunders!↵
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<spoiler summary="Future of the blog">↵
If enough people are interested, I'll also write a blog about our Asia West regionals experience. I don't know if I'll be writing about more ICPC regional experiences (with this regional being online, all I might be able to write about is the actual contest time), but I was planning to cover a few more topics that I wanted to talk about in my blog; such as "Research as an undergrad", "Applying to top MS programs
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Thanks for reading, and hope the read is enjoyable! :)
