Special prize winner - Joie Zhang (last solved problem)
After 12 weeks of competitive programming we are finally at the end of the semester. To celebrate this occasion, we will have an end of semester special contest with prizes and some holiday cheer. The contest is open to all undergraduate students at Princeton, and will have two brackets/divisions, one for students that have little to no experience in competitive programming, and one for students that are more comfortable with competitive programming. There will be prizes for both divisions, so everyone has a chance of winning!
Bring a charged laptop and optionally pen and paper to work on problems. To participate all you need is an account on codeforces (create one here) and then to join our codeforces group (if you haven’t done so already, click on “Join” on this page). Just before the contest starts on Friday we will provide the links to the submission pages.
The contest starts this Friday December 9 at 5:10pm and lasts two hours, so it finishes at 7:10pm, and it will take place in Fine Hall 214. Try to show up at 5pm so you can have time to setup.
We want to have free pizza and snacks for everyone, just like we do every week. We need to have an approximate headcount to estimate how much food we need, so if you could register here (takes less than 1 minute) it would be very helpful! If you forget to register you can still come, this is just so we have an estimate of people.
The contest is divided into two divisions: division I; and division II.
Division II is intended for those with little or no competitive programming experience.
Division I is intended for those with experience in competitive programming.
You should pick whichever one suits you better and you are not allowed to participate on both divisions, so pick one and stick to it. The two divisions will contain different problems and prizes for the top participants in each division.
Note that most contest problems will have appeared before in other competitions from around the world, we won’t have original problems in our contests unless otherwise mentioned. You shouldn’t try to search for the original problem, since this would be cheating. You are also not allowed to use tools like github copilot or chatGPT.
Here is the list of prizes
Since we have offered similar prizes before, we might switch up the order of prizes to prevent awarding someone a prize they have gotten in the past.
We’ll also award an extra fun prize to a participant in either division I or II that completes a secret challenge, to be revealed at the end.
We’ll also have the usual free food and snacks for everyone.
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