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2025 USACO.Guide Informatics Tournament
By lunchbox, 14 months ago, In English

UPDATE: Thank you for participating in the contest! The problems have been uploaded to the gym, and the solution materials are available here.

Here are the final leaderboards for precollegiate winners!

Advanced Division:

  1. nivedhana
  2. PurpleCrayon
  3. z
  4. hyforces
  5. lwm7708
  6. scotchtape13
  7. tony1234
  8. k1r1t0

Standard Division:

  1. ratomcito
  2. lmaobruh
  3. n_suresh
  4. scooter
  5. amansoor
  6. NicoN9
  7. arstag
  8. wasif_shahzad

Additionally, we'd like to congratulate the top 3 non-precollege participants in Advanced!

  1. ttamx
  2. liympanda
  3. pgergo03

USACO.Guide is excited to announce the 2025 USACO.Guide Informatics Tournament!

It will take place on March 15th, from 10:30am to 1:30pm (PDT). The contest will be 3 hours, 8 problems, and individual. The problems will be sorted by difficulty. There will be two divisions:

  • Standard for competitors in USACO Bronze/Silver and under 1600 rating on Codeforces.
  • Advanced for competitors in USACO Gold+ or 1600+ in Codeforces rating.

Only pre-college students will be eligible for prizes. The prizes for each division will be:

Advanced:

  1. $300
  2. $200
  3. $100
  4. through 8. $15

Standard:

  1. $75
  2. $50
  3. $25
  4. through 8. $15

A huge thanks to our problemsetting team: Hori, myst-6, cry, turtletortles, koolkid403, khluo, and jay_jayjay. In addition, thanks to our testers for providing invaluable feedback: omeganot, Intellegent, Yam, amoeba4, willy108, oursaco, and snowythecat.

Special thanks to ShineChang318 for building the contest platform.

The contest will be held on https://contest.joincpi.org/. More detailed instructions and rules are present there. Most notably, you may not use AI tools in any way during the contest.

For more information, join our Discord server.

Sign up here!

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As an author, I encourage you to participate.

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    The contest starts in 1 day!

    Remember to join the discord server as we will be answering clarifications from there.

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wah

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i love willy108! orz to my former teamscode boss

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Been looking forward to this! Hoping for a good contest.

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yippee!!

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As a CPI team member who did not participate in the making of the contest whatsoever, you guys should participate!

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lunchbox orz

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By "Codeforces rating" do you mean current rating or max rating?

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orz

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Hi guys, I’m currently getting the message that the web server is down when I try and register for the competition. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Thanks.

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