If you are interested in competing in the ICPC contests in 2023, the local qualifier will happen this Friday October 6 at 5:15pm and it will take place in Friend Center 006. This will consist of a 2.5-hour teamed contest (so it finishes at 7:45pm) which will be held on CodeForces. Try to show up at 5pm so you can have time to setup, since the contest will start at 5:15pm sharp.
To sign up to compete please see the notice on the announcements channel on discord or contact Pedro Paredes (pparedes_at_cs.princeton.edu).
We will be selecting the top 5 teams to represent Princeton in the Greater NY Regional Contest, which will take place Sunday, October 29 at Columbia University (more info here: http://acmgnyr.org/year2023/). Do not sign up to participate in the local qualifier unless you are planning on attending the regional contest at Columbia.
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You need to be registered in order to be eligible to advance to the ICPC regional. To do so, please see the notice on the announcements channel on discord or contact Pedro Paredes (pparedes_at_cs.princeton.edu).
The contest will take exactly 2 hours and a half. In the event of a prolonged codeforces outage (which is rare, but unfortunately happens), an extension might be granted to everyone. No extensions will be granted in case of lateness (so try to be on time).
Each team will only be allowed to use one laptop during the contest, so you’ll have to share one laptop. This includes all interactions with a computer, including looking at problem statements. We will be providing paper copies of the problem statements to all team members.
You are allowed to use any code you have stored locally, which includes solutions you wrote up to previous problem, implementations of data structures or algorithms, or any code templates. However, you are not allowed to search the internet for anything. You are also not allowed to use chatGPT or GitHub Copilot (or any LLM tool, running locally or on the internet) to generate any type of code.
There will be 7 problems of ranging difficulties, which can be in any order of difficulty (so problem A might not be the easiest). These are not original problems, they are taken from other public contests available online, so you are not allowed to try to find any information about the original contest.
Unlike the usual weekly competitive programming sessions, you should not ask other people for help, nor will you be allowed to look at test cases you are failing. You will be 100% on your own. Obviously this excludes your teammates, you are encouraged to discuss ideas with teammates. Please do report any issues you find, though.
The standings will be determined as follows: first number of problems solved (more is better), tie breaking by the sum of the number of minutes taken to solve each problem plus 20 extra minutes per incorrect submission to an accepted problem (less is better), which is the default CodeForces ranking method.
You will be able to see the scoreboard through out the contest, except for the last hour. During this last hour the scoreboard will be shown as “frozen” and it won’t be updated. Obviously your submissions will still count, but you won’t be able to see them on the scoreboard. The ranking will be revealed shortly after the time is up.
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The contest will be on the Princeton ICPC Group as “Princeton ICPC Selection Contest 2023-24”, and it will show up there around an hour before the competition starts.
To participate in the contest you will need to register as a team on codeforces. To do so, you should create a team ahead of time, which you can do here: https://codeforces.com/teams. Add all of your teammates to your team and register as that team for the contest once it is up on the Princeton ICPC Group.
Looking at the problems and submitting solutions will work exactly like the usual weekly problem solving sessions.
If you have any questions ask Pedro Paredes (pparedes_at_cs.princeton.edu) for help.
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