Recently I’ve heard that the North American ICPC regionals and divisionals are considering remote participation by all members of each 3-person ICPC team. This opens the possibility of simultaneous debugging, testing, test-case generation, and more. The differences that parallel terminal use can make in a team contest interest me very greatly, although I am not competing this year.

I’m curious, have any other regions announced such changes? What are contestants’ thoughts on how this change could impact their performance — or be taken advantage of? Might problem setters be considering altering the difficulty or quantity of problems in their problemsets? What will be the impact of being able to blast Twice all 5 hours? These are the questions we need to be asking.

Here's the link: https://ranking.ioi18.net/Ranking.html

How excited is everyone?

In today's Round #449, I received a MLE verdict on C in system testing. At first, I thought it was because of how much stack space I allocated. But Java should allocate memory as necessary, and I was only using it for recursion, so I found it odd that I would MLE.

So, I resubmitted my code and made the following change:

That code was accepted. No change was made other than the addition of the comment. The two submissions are listed below for reference. MikeMirzayanov, what's good?

MLE: http://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/897/submission/32866893

AC: http://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/897/submission/32880052

Good Afternoon Codeforces,

This question is directed at those familiar with the Polygon platform. At present I'm trying to put some recent regional problems into Polygon for a mashup contest. Upon verifying the solutions/data, I get the following result:

PackageException: LongLongStrings_sjz2_pacnw.java got FL on judge#20 which violates tag ACCEPTED.

I can not find anything in the Polygon documentation about "FL". Does anyone have a clue what this means? Thanks in advance.

I've recently created a problem in Polygon and added it to a Mashup. I know that Mashups can't be made public, but is there at least a way to share them with my friends? I'm working on educating younger coders and making problems for them to play with about things we're learning is very attractive to me.