Rutgers Competitive Programming is excited to invite you to participate in the open mirror of the Spring 2026 Rutgers Programming Contest, which will start Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)!
The problems were prepared and authored by jdurie, nickbelov, nadya271, ScalarField, dbaumg, MattTheNub, snowythecat, and mgoldy925.
The contest is a 5-hour long ICPC-style team contest consisting of 14 problems. Team sizes can be anywhere from 1 to 3 people. Teams of more than one person are kindly requested to only use one computer for the contest.
Please note that this contest contains at least one interactive problem and at least one run-twice problem. Please read the guides for interactive problems and run-twice problems if you are unfamiliar with them.
The contest can be found here: https://mirror.codeforces.com/contests/106414
We would like to thank:
- McPqndq, awoo, AggravatedCow, surajchip2, ContronThePanda, omeganot, Hori, and thehunterjames for testing.
- bobbilyking for his philosophical insights.
Hudson River Trading
, theRutgers Computer Science Department
, andWegmans Food Markets
for sponsoring.- MikeMirzayanov for the wonderful Codeforces and Polygon platforms.
- and last but not least,
You
for participating!
Good luck, and we hope you enjoy the problems!
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I really like the fact that cheaters are not that motivated to try solving an interactive problem(relatively).
Anyway, I am looking forward to it.
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As a tester, I approve of this contest! I enjoyed how the problemset was all standard Jiangly Block Decomposition problems, very instructive!
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How many stars is this contest ?