The ICPC is renowned as one of the largest competitive programming contests, but it is exclusively for university students. For school students, there is the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics), which is an individual, OI-style contest, unlike the ICPC, which is a team-based, CPC-style contest.
In the Arab and African regions, there is a teen version of the competition designed for school students. However, since other regions do not have a similar teen version, implementing an ICPC for teens on a global scale seems unlikely.
I'm curious to hear everyone’s opinion on this. Do you think it would be a good idea to have a teen version of the ICPC, or is it unnecessary? Personally, I’m not sure, but I’d love to hear your thoughts.
I think there should be an international-type contest for teens , atleast to open more oppurtunities. Especially for teens who want to excel in their competitive programming career as a whole. Yet, it wouldn't be anytime soon. Since, something like this needs alot of effort , sponsors and investments and actual people who would pay for the fees and everything so, i think maybe it could be possible but just not right now and i think the IOI is a good enough contest but of course a Teens ICPC sounds pretty cool in my opinion.
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IOI for university students when
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Greedy you are, university students didn't cry before about ioi
Can we instead have more open contests please?
ICPC and IOI both are very annoying because they are only eligible for students of universities and schools. And I dislike both even though I am atill eligible for ICPC
No big company cares about competitive programming to sponsor. Even Meta may switch to AI in the future. CP is useless in the real world.
We need IOI for university students and ICPC for school students.I think it is great idea