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By george_stelian, 2 years ago, In English

Hi Codeforces,

I am honored to present you "Adolescent Grigore Moisil" (AGM) International Programming Contest (8th edition).

AGM is addressed to high school students who can form teams of up to 3 members, ICPC style. The contest has a qualification round on 6th March 2022 at 13:00 GMT. The problems are set up fully by (former) university students.

We are looking forward to international participants. Both the qualification and final round will be held online due to the pandemic situation. You can register here until 5th March 2022 at 13:00 GMT.

Besides diplomas for the first 10 teams in the final round, the first team will receive a prize of 1200 RON, the second team a prize of 900 RON, and the third team a prize of 600 RON.

Finally, I am more than delighted to present you our team: patrick.sava (the heart of the project), average_frog_enjoyer, munteanuvlad98, Stelutzu, Alex18mai, teoionescu, carabet.cosmin, Stefan_Radu, Mihai22e, vreaudelftpls, GinguIonut, caesar2001, georgerapeanu, MiricaMatei, popovicirobert, tinca_matei, Usu and me.

Take a look at our problem-sets from the last edition:

Qualification

Final Round Day1

Final Round Day2

Our website

AGM Facebook

Registration Link

Also, don't hesitate to contact us: contact@agm-contest.com

Thank you very much,

George

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moldova will win

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You can also message me or George if any question about our contest.

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    Where can we find the editorial to the problems from the last qualificational round?

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      the editorials were live; the problems were presented after the contest by the proposers

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Hey everyone! There are less than 2 weeks till the start of the contest! :)

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    Several teams registered until now.

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Qualification Round is at the same time as Open Olympiad in Programming. Many CIS school students won't be able to participate.

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    But do the times overlap? The contest is scheduled to take place at around 3pm in most of the Eastern Europeans countries.

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Hello, are the team members must come from the same school? And also, will there be an unofficial mirror contest for non high schoolers?

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    As long as you and your mates are eligible, you can team up with anyone from any country. About unofficial mirror, there isn't, but if you really want to participate, we could offer you an unofficial (no prizes) account :) In case anyone else sees this message, we reserve the right to limit the number of unofficial accounts and these will be awarded on first come first served basis.

    Please grab our email from the official website and text us there — in case you don't hear from us in ~24 hrs do text me.

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Hi!
My friends and I have a question...
our transcripts are not in english(actually, they are in persian) and we don't know the equivalence of student id in our country.
how can we prove we are students? do you accept our transcripts?
thanks.

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    Hi! It's fine to upload your transcript in Persian. I guess it should be quite straightforward using Google translate to see that you are students.

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The team doesn't strictly have to contain 3 members right? I mean, you can have 1,2 or 3 members in a group. I'm asking this because the form mandates that I fill info about the second and third participant.

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    No, it doesn't have to. There can be 1 or 2 students in the team. Sorry for the google form. Can you please fill with blank (N/A or something) details and upload a random blank picture? Thank you!

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Hello, May I ask you a question? I've already registered, but how can I enter the contest at that time? Which website is the competition on?

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    I read the Rules ..

    Each round will be hosted on the platform of the contest (which is a modified clone of DomJudge ).

    This manual can help you .

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    We will send an email with credentials and the link to the DomJudge before the contest.

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      OK, I will pay attention to it. Thank you.

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      So when will you send the email to us?

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        We will start sending then tonight after 22:00 GMT. We will post a message here when we are done. If you didn't get them by tomorrow morning please send us a message. Please check spam as well! Thanks!

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The registration has been extended until 5th March 2022 at 13:00 GMT. You can register here!

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The login credentials will be sent in the next couple of hours. Please do check your spam folder and in case you don't have them up to 2 hours before the competition kicks off, do email us at contact@agm-contest.com or alternatively PM either of me or George.

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great problem.

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Where will be posted the solutions ?

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    You can join https://meet.google.com/ips-xecg-fur. We will present the solutions live and then unfreeze the scoreboard. We will start in 5 minutes.

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      Will there be a document with the solutions? (If I want to revisit the solutions)

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        I am not sure about the document, but we do record the meeting now -- so we hope that you'll be able to access it!

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          Where/When will you post the recording of the meeting?

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            Not yet determined but we'll probably email you or post here a link shortly.

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So when will you show the whole scoreboard? And can we know whether our team will enter the next round?

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Please join https://meet.google.com/ips-xecg-fur for the live presentation of the solutions. Afterward, we will unfreeze the scoreboard. Thanks to everyone for participating in the contest!

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Will there be posted the tests and official solutions (code)?

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    We are going to export the contest to CF's Gym; if you really wish to see the model solutions you could email us. About the tests, I am not sure, probably not.

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      Why though? Can't you do a drive with them?

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        In an ideal world yes, but this is a volunteering project in which 15+ people get involved and invest their time for free. We strive to find a balance between the quality and the effort invested by each of them and that's why we can't do absolutely every thing. We can try and do our best but we won't commit on every request.

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          A little advice. Perhaps you could increase the number of the international teams that qualify to the Final Stage of the competition in the next year?

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            I agree. It's quite frustrating to solve 9 problems and not get qualified while teams with very poor scores as 3 are qualified simply by being romanian. Perhaps 16 romanian teams would suffice?

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I don't know where to write this. But I'm really really sure that the probability for Johnny's siblings to be sick is $$$75\%$$$ and not $$$66.67\%$$$. I submitted $$$66.67\%$$$ as a joke and it worked (we got first AC). I told the contest organizers because I believed many people were affected but they did not seem to believe me.

Chat history (I think it's ok for me to share)
my teammate told me my code is unreadable so I added comments
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    Ikr, I struggled with that problem thinking the probability should be 0.75 for about an hour, and after thinking about all possibilities for what could be wrong I thought why not try with 0.66 since they might have messed up their probabilities. This gave AC, but it also somehow happened to be 1 minute after some other team got AC on this problem, so they then disqualified both of our teams saying we cheated... What can I say? peak organization.

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      Yea, very fun to know you've been DQ-ed after spending 10 hours to solve problems, out of which 2-3 were spent on trying to figure out a wrong problem. We live in a society

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        And then they get in a meeting with us and basically tell us "our decision's been made, you will be put on the unofficial scoreboard, and there's nothing you can do to change that because you can't prove you haven't cheated."

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      Dunno man, but in Romanian we call this "blat"

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      I'm convinced that they were jealous because you had better gaming chairs than them.

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    This problem made me feel bad because I skipped all my biology lessons.