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UT Open (UTOPC) 2023
By zekigurbuz, 2 years ago, In English

Hello, Codeforces!

UTPC, the competitive programming organization at the University of Texas at Austin, is happy to invite you to participate in the 2023 edition of the UT Open (UTOPC) which will be held on Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 1:00PM UTC-5 (CDT).

You will be given 14-17 problems and 5 hours to solve them, with standard ICPC scoring. There will be a wide range of difficulties -- anyone is welcome to participate! This is a team contest, meaning that you are allowed to compete in teams of up to 3 members (it is totally acceptable to compete without teammates as well). This is (of course) not an official Codeforces round, and is thus unrated.

Prizes will be available to students competing in person in Austin (at the Gates-Dell Complex), and further prize information is TBD.

The problems were prepared and tested by Prayaag Gupta, speedycatfish, porkchops, nwx, blueberryJam, jxin31415, fishy15, bridgeminion, chickencode, picroft, abhonsley00, DylanSmith, oopsimbad, and myself.

And also a huge thanks to Marlov for planning logistics and JamsRamen for help with testing problems!

We would like to thank:

Good luck and have fun!

UPD: For those wondering, the contest is in the Gym tab.

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Sounds like a lot of fun!

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Can high school students participate? If so, why does the interest form asks for college/university name?

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    The interest form is for university students who are interested in competing in person and is largely not applicable for high school students. You are of course still free to participate virtually!

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      Thank you for clarifying!

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        I would like to add that we have plans to increase the outreach to high school students in the future too. This is the first year we are opening the contest to be in-person since everything was shut down by COVID. As such, a lot of the logistics are still being worked out (since the students who previously ran the contest have largely since graduated). Hopefully in the coming semester(s) we will begin to invite high school teams once everything is worked out logistically. We recognize that contests can be much more fun face-to-face!

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          That sounds amazing, look forward to competing at UT Austin!

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Thank you to everyone who competed!

Editorials to most of the problems can be found here.

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Problem F from the Open contest was so based.

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