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Invitation to the Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest 2024 (Open Division)
By IanDeHaan, history, 4 weeks ago, In English

The Universities of Alberta, Calgary, and Lethbridge would like to invite you to participate in the open division of the Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest 2024.

The contest starts on October 26 at 11:30am mountain time.

The contest link is acpc24.kattis.com. No registration is required for the open division — just press the button on the kattis page to sign up. All you need is a kattis account.

The problems were prepared by charlie.x.3000, DanteB, Friggstad, howard.cheng1, IanDeHaan, jzhe727, and Noah Weninger.

The format for teams competing in person is a team-of-<=3 five-hour contest with one computer and no access to external materials other than a physical team reference document and language docs. While we encourage those participating in the open division to replicate these conditions as closely as possible (since this is what the contest was designed for), we recognize this may not be possible or wanted for some. Teams/individuals competing in open division are not bound by the same rules (i.e. one-pc, no online reference) as those competing in-person. Note that there are no prizes for the open division.

The difficulty of the contest will be comparable to some of the easier NA ICPC regionals such as rocky mountain regional. To get a better idea of the expected difficulty, you can view the problems from 2022.

For updates and to chat with other participants, feel free to join the Alberta Competitive Programming discord server.

We hope you participate in and enjoy the contest :)

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Invitation to the University of Alberta Programming Contest 2024 (Open Division)
By IanDeHaan, history, 8 months ago, In English

The University of Alberta would like to invite you to participate in the open division of the University of Alberta Programming Contest 2024.

The contest starts on March 16 at 11am Mountain Time.

The open division will be held on Kattis at uapc24.kattis.com. There is a button on that site allowing you to join the contest — there is no need to register ahead of time.

The format for teams competing in person is a team-of-<=3 four-hour contest with one computer. While we encourage those participating in the open division to replicate these conditions as closely as possible (since this is what the contest was designed for), we recognize this may not be possible or wanted for some. Teams/individuals competing in the open division are not bound by the same rules as those competing in-person. Note that there are no prizes for the open division.

The difficulty of the contest will be comparable to some of the easier NA ICPC regionals such as rocky mountain regional. To get a better idea of the expected difficulty, you can view the problems from last year.

We hope you participate in and enjoy the contest :)

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Teams Going to the 2024 ICPC North America Championship
By IanDeHaan, history, 9 months ago, In English

The list of teams qualified for the 2024 North America Championship has been posted here. So far, there are 48 teams there. I expect that 2 more will qualify and will update this post when they do. Please comment the codeforces handles of your university's team if you know them, and I'll add them to the list. :)

Edit: There are now 50 teams. I expect that there won't be any more.

Edit 2: nvm, boston shenanigans

East Central North America

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Waterloo KevinWan uwu pwypeanut
University of Michigan docriz wbyyui tuongle
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
Carnegie Mellon University frizzfrizz vainilla haxolotl
University of Toronto (Scarborough) Kmcode andrewtam Wobert

Greater New York

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Cornell University qlf9 Fujiwara_no_Mokou leo020828
New York University dongdziz GVZ_Hao
Princeton University hzt1 Marco_L_T stan23456
Columbia University yangster67 ikaurov serichaoo
Rutgers University bobbilyking PMPuns nickbelov

Mid Atlantic USA

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Maryland Shayan galen_colin sam571128
University of Virginia nicksms Edlue Richw818
Johns Hopkins University ishmeal Ste Amazed
Duke University izhang overACer kadasix

Mid Central USA

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nocriz Everule YuukiS
Vanderbilt University Bakry crossing0ver Abi Kothapalli
University of Chicago
Northwestern University dbschi
Illinois Institute of Technology

North Central North America

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison LUL____SEPLED1305 AquaBlaze ITHZ
University of Minnesota
Iowa State University
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Dakota State University

Northeast North America

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology djq_cpp duality TLE
Harvard University gabrielwu maxwellzen andrew018.gu
University of Rochester _noname VitaLemonTea zyan22
Boston University 36champ duyiblue
McGill University

Pacific Northwest

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of British Columbia ..vince ngpin04 joelgun14
Stanford University skylinebaby nikilrselvam Vince729
University of California, Berkeley vkgainz Bungmint Badint
University of Washington Tohsaka_Sakura Rico64 Evirir
University of California, Santa Cruz DanielChang wizwilzo Xynix

Rocky Mountain

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Colorado School of Mines McPqndq WhimsicalCode OJSquid
University of Alberta asiad jxu 11Rippuru
Brigham Young University

South Central USA

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Texas at Dallas EMBailey surajchip2 DedsecKnight
University of Texas at Austin mwen fishy15 bleh0.5
Texas A&M University Antimony m_vid sturtevm
Rice University

Southeast USA

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Central Florida Xylenox ssk4988 marks39
Georgia Institute of Technology kevin Minhho2005 edchen
University of South Florida SSYernar BeanJackfr m1rshokhid.0
Clemson University

Southern California

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of California, Los Angeles chocolate-milk orane63 SansPapyrus683
University of California, Irvine t0mmyn nanoblob codicon
University of California, San Diego ZhouShang2003 chen_zexing stasio6
University of California, Riverside kyuukyuusha Dragonlinae Anosagi

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Invitation to the Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest 2023 (Open Division)
By IanDeHaan, history, 12 months ago, In English

The Universities of Alberta, Calgary, and Lethbridge would like to invite you to participate in the open division of the Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest 2023.

The contest starts on November 25 at 11:30am mountain time.

The contest link will be at acpc23.kattis.com. No registration is required for the open division; sometime before the contest starts, there will be a button on the kattis page to sign up. All you need is a kattis account.

The problems were prepared by charlie.x.3000, DanteB, Friggstad, Grayden Price, howard.cheng1, IanDeHaan, jzhe727, ngergel, Noah Weninger, spoonsplz, and yum.

The format for teams competing in person is a team-of-<=3 five-hour contest with one computer and no access to external materials other than a physical team reference document and language docs. While we encourage those participating in the open division to replicate these conditions as closely as possible (since this is what the contest was designed for), we recognize this may not be possible or wanted for some. Teams/individuals competing in open division are not bound by the same rules (i.e. one-pc, no online reference) as those competing in-person. Note that there are no prizes for the open division.

The difficulty of the contest will be comparable to some of the easier NA ICPC regionals such as rocky mountain regional. To get a better idea of the expected difficulty, you can view the problems from last year.

For updates and to chat with other participants, feel free to join the Alberta Competitive Programming discord server.

We hope you participate in and enjoy the contest :)

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Invitation to the Calgary Collegiate Programming Contest 2023 (Open Division)
By IanDeHaan, history, 20 months ago, In English

The University of Calgary would like to invite you to participate in the open division of the Calgary Collegiate Programming Contest 2023.

The contest starts on April 1st at noon Mountain Time.

The open division will be held on Kattis at ccpc23.kattis.com. There is a button on the Kattis contest page which you can use to self-register.

The format for teams competing in person is a team-of-<=3 five-hour contest with one computer. Those participating in the open division are encouraged to replicate these conditions as closely as possible (since this is what the contest was designed for), but this may not be possible or wanted for some. Teams/individuals competing in the open division are not bound by the same rules as those competing in-person. Note that there are no prizes for the open division.

The difficulty of the contest will be comparable to some of the easier NA ICPC regionals such as rocky mountain regional. To get a better idea of the expected difficulty, you can view the problems from last year.

Note that I am not involved with the organization of the contest, and am posting this on behalf of the organizers. If you have any questions, please direct them to DanteB.

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Invitation to the University of Alberta Programming Contest 2023 (Open Division)
By IanDeHaan, history, 20 months ago, In English

The University of Alberta would like to invite you to participate in the open division of the University of Alberta Programming Contest 2023.

(This image is more relevant for in-person participants, but it's all I have c:)

The contest starts on March 11 at 11am Mountain Time.

The open division will be held on Kattis at uapc23open.kattis.com. Closer to the start of the contest, a button will appear on that site allowing you to join the contest — there is no need to register ahead of time.

The format for teams competing in person is a team-of-<=3 four-hour contest with one computer. While we encourage those participating in the open division to replicate these conditions as closely as possible (since this is what the contest was designed for), we recognize this may not be possible or wanted for some. Teams/individuals competing in the open division are not bound by the same rules as those competing in-person. Note that there are no prizes for the open division.

The difficulty of the contest will be comparable to some of the easier NA ICPC regionals such as rocky mountain regional. To get a better idea of the expected difficulty, you can view the problems from last year.

We hope you participate in and enjoy the contest :)

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Teams Going to the 2023 ICPC North America Championship
By IanDeHaan, history, 21 month(s) ago, In English

Most North America ICPC regionals have been held. While we don't yet know who is going to NAC, it's reasonable to guess that the slot distribution will be similar to last year. So here is a list of teams who qualified for NAC assuming the same distribution. Note that all regions are guaranteed at least 3 slots, and I would be relatively surprised if any region received less than 4.

Update: It looks like an official list has been posted here. I've updated the tables below in accordance, with the exception of Pacific Northwest, which has some irregularities.

Update 2: UC Davis now appears on the list, so everything seems normal now. 48 total teams invited.

Update 3: Stony Brook University and Northeastern University have been added to the list, for a total of 50 teams. I expect there will be no more additions beyond this.

If you know the codeforces handles of any team that is not yet filled in, please let me know so I can add them.

East Central North America

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Purdue University Kuroni devinqu richzli
University of Waterloo never_giveup KevinWan AQT
Carnegie Mellon University BucketPotato 4fecta kobortor
University of Toronto mattagar6 bonopo TriNitroTofu
University of Michigan

Greater New York

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Yale University idontreallyknow dsjong eed7573
New York University anpoli99 spar5h Liupeiliang
Rutgers University BackToSquare1 bobbilyking dbaumg
Princeton University
Stony Brook University Sinocchi kennyzzhang angeredgecko

Mid Atlantic USA

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Maryland galen_colin Navick mr.banana
University of Pennsylvania meiron03 benjiqle awesomenick1303
University of Virginia Edlue Richw818 nicksms
Lafayette College
Lehigh University GVZ_Hao lihangyi01 Junchen

Mid Central USA

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign SpicyChickenCDD tom0727 char
University of Chicago hjcafaroUC n3_ quantum8
Northwestern University dbschi AntonioElCamborio PioBaroja
University of Kentucky reveilarc shash4321 nathanDuncan
Washington University in St. Louis TimDSF Yuh_03 LucunJi

North Central North America

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carleton College Luca DuplicateAccountRemoved batmend_kh
Milwaukee School of Engineering
University of Minnesota
Iowa State University

Northeast North America

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University maxwellzen walnutwaldo20 andrew018.gu
Brown University Origenes VampireWeekend Pika_pikachu_
McGill University squishybanana04 mmoeez48
Northeastern University Noble_Mushtak knoteye jonathanh8686

Pacific Northwest

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of California, Berkeley linpaws ss1237 fatant
Stanford University Vince729 swagchicken applepi216
University of Washington Tohsaka_Sakura Evirir tjoa
University of California, Davis monkey8 takeuchi-masaki nkrim
De Anza College

Rocky Mountain

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Brigham Young University
University of Calgary
Colorado School of Mines McPqndq walking_fure dcauwe
University of Alberta 11Rippuru th3C0mm0nC0d3r Steven-QwQ

South Central USA

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Texas at Austin fishy15 mwen bleh0.5
Texas A&M University 0e4ef622 Jonathan1234 DhruvP
University of Texas at Dallas EMBailey surajchip2 DedsecKnight
Rice University

Southeast USA

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Georgia Institute of Technology dragonslayerintraining smax RandomKami
University of Central Florida Xylenox NatInTheHat Meaf
Emory University

Southern California

University Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of California, San Diego ZhouShang2003 stasio6 bitset
University of California, Los Angeles nikilrselvam rishisankar VisualProgrammer
California Institute of Technology alien_lover rchalamala kchang
University of California, Irvine codicon t0mmyn nanoblob

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Invitation to Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest 2022 (Open Division)
By IanDeHaan, 2 years ago, In English

The Universities of Alberta, Calgary, and Lethbridge would like to invite you to participate in the open division of the Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest 2022.

The contest starts on November 26 at 11:30am mountain time.

The contest link will be at acpc22open.kattis.com. It currently returns a 404, but it will hopefully become active soon. When it is active, there will be a "Join the Contest" button or something similar that one can use to register.

The format for teams competing in person is a team-of-<=3 five-hour contest with one computer and no access to external materials other than a physical team reference document. While we encourage those participating in the open division to replicate these conditions as closely as possible (since this is what the contest was designed for), we recognize this may not be possible or wanted for some. Teams/individuals competing in open division are not bound by the same rules (i.e. one-pc, no online reference) as those competing in-person. Note that there are no prizes for the open division.

The difficulty of the contest will be comparable to some of the easier NA ICPC regionals such as rocky mountain regional. To get a better idea of the expected difficulty, you can view the problems from last year.

For updates and to chat with other participants, feel free to join the Alberta Competitive Programming discord server.

We hope you participate in and enjoy the contest :)

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Teams Going to the 2022 ICPC North America Championship
By IanDeHaan, history, 3 years ago, In English

The teams advancing to the NAC this year were announced today. In previous years, someone has made a post with the list of qualifying teams and their known codeforces handles. This year that person is me.

If you have any of the missing data, please let me know and I'll add it to the tables.

East Central North America

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Carnegie Mellon University CMU1 conqueror_of_tourist xumingkuan summitwei
University of Waterloo Waterloo Gold pwypeanut ChrisT mariand
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Victors
Purdue University Purdue UWU
University of Toronto UofT Blue Kmcode mattagar6 lookcook

Greater New York

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Columbia University fortcoders yangster67 askd Nea1
Rutgers University Rutgers-7 jdurie akifpatel ki0apa
New York University NYU-A.C.E.
Cornell University Cornell-1 kpeng815 qlf9 leo020828
Stevens Institute of Technology Stevens-1

Mid Atlantic USA

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Swarthmore College cout << 1/0 << endl; Geothermal nitrousoxide silxi
University of Maryland UMD Black
University of Virginia Seg Faults
Lafayette College Lafayette 1
North Carolina State University Long break
Drexel University Babbage Dragons

Mid Central USA

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC A fivefourthreeone Everule Seanliu
University of Chicago Lying Flat
University of Kentucky Uky-bbb
Vanderbilt University VU Team 1

North Central North America

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Wisconsin – Madison Longest SubRoutine Subconscious RobeZH LUL____SEPLED1305
Milwaukee School of Engineering Kotlinaughts Hakiobo sylvyrfysh jkeane4210
Carleton College Dining Hall Chicken batmend_kh DuplicateAccountRemoved column
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Is This A Class?
Iowa State University HYPEROMEGAPOGGERSCRAZY

Northeast North America

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT CopyPaste Rewinding TLE antontrygubO_o
Harvard University Harvard 1 gabrielwu halohalo vova239
University of Rochester Rochester – blue
Northeastern University NEU 1

Pacific Northwest

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Washington new-final-final-2
Stanford University Cardinal TheOneYouWant lucasxia01 miagkov
University of California at Berkeley Berkeley Blue vkgainz plourde27 eyg
Simon Fraser University SFU_Lavender lby2014 ABlondal cowbrain
University of British Columbia O(mae wa mou shindeiru) ..vince .rem Milad

Rocky Mountain

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Alberta Alberta Aqua IanDeHaan Johnson_Wu answer
Brigham Young University BYU *
University of Calgary Codetoads
Colorado School of Mines Algonauts

South Central USA

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
The University of Texas at Dallas Comets1 peterr EMBailey Pilver
The University of Texas at Austin NewType davidlee1999WTK Ir1d Rosalie
Rice University Rice Owls
Texas A&M University /tableflip WA Jonathan1234 0e4ef622 DhruvP

Southeast USA

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
University of Central Florida UCF Iris lightseba DanielW48 Sharon
Georgia Institute of Technology Acceptable smax arvindr9 RandomKami
Troy University Mahjong Masters
Emory University M||E

Southern California

University Team Name Member 1 Member 2 Member 3
California Institute of Technology Caltech 1
University of California Los Angeles UCLA Lemon Meringue nikilrselvam jacob.b.zhang arihant72600
University of California San Diego UCSD Team Two
University of Southern California USC Trojans Jeel_Vaishnav AsleepAdhyyan lstm_x

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ICPC World Finals 2021 Pushed Back to November 2022
By IanDeHaan, history, 3 years ago, In English

The response to this post used to say March 2022 but now says November 2022, updated on August 15.

Figured I'd share here as to my knowledge this has not been announced elsewhere.

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