Mirror of Bubble Cup 14 Finals on Codeforces Hello, Codeforces! [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](https://www.microsoft.com/en-rs/mdcs) is thrilled to announce the finals of the **14th edition of Bubble Cup competition!** Bubble Cup is an international, **ICPC-style team contest** aimed at university and high school students.  Contest will take place on [Saturday, 9th of October at 10AM CEST](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=9&month=10&year=2021&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=35), in online format. Winners will be announced at the closing ceremony. You can find more info on the [BubbleCup website](https://www.bubblecup.org/). Just like the previous editions, this final will be followed by an online mirror competition on Codeforces. Mirror will take place on the same day about an hour after the start of the finals — [contest_time:1599]. Contest will last for **4 hours** and **ICPC rules** will be applied. It will be a comp...

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Mirror of Bubble Cup 13 Finals on Codeforces Hello, Codeforces! Hope you're all safe and well. [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](https://www.microsoft.com/sr-latn-rs/mdcs) is thrilled to announce the finals of the **13th edition of Bubble Cup competition**! Bubble Cup is an international, **ACM-style team contest** aimed at university and high school students.  Contest will take place on [Sunday, 4th of October at 11AM CEST](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Bubble+Cup+13+Finals&iso=20201004T11&p1=35&ah=3), virtually. Live results will be available on the official Bubble Cup website (results will be frozen during the last 45 minutes of the competition). Winners will be announced at the closing ceremony. You can find more info on the [BubbleCup website](https://www.bubblecup.org/). Just like the previous editions, this final will be followed by an online mirror competition on Codeforces. Mirror will take place on [Mon...

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Mirror of Bubble Cup 12 Finals on Codeforces Hello, Codeforces! It's our pleasure to announce the the finals of the 12th [Bubble Cup](https://www.bubblecup.org/)! Bubble Cup is a programming competition organized by [Microsoft Development Center Serbia (MDCS)](https://www.microsoft.com/sr-latn-rs/mdcs). The contest will take place on [Saturday, 14th of September at 10:00 UTC+2](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Bubble+Cup+12+Finals+-+%5BOnsite%5D&iso=20190914T10&p1=35&ah=5) in Belgrade, and will last for 5 hours. Live results will be available on the [official Bubble Cup website](https://www.bubblecup.org/CompetitorsCorner/Finals/1775). Results will be frozen during the last hour of the competition. The winners will be announced at the closing ceremony. The format of the competition is very similar to ACM-ICPC — teams consisting of up to three people are allowed, and they have one computer and five hours to solve problems without partial scoring. Ties are broken using the usual time penalty rules. ...

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Mirror of Bubble Cup 11 Finals on Codeforces Hello, Codeforces! It's our pleasure to announce the the finals of the 11th [Bubble Cup](http://www.bubblecup.org/)! Bubble Cup is a programming competition organized by [Microsoft Development Center Serbia (MDCS)](https://www.microsoft.com/sr-latn-rs/mdcs). The contest will take place on [Saturday, 22nd of September at 11:00 UTC+2](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Bubble+Cup+11+Finals+-+onsite&iso=20180922T11&p1=35&ah=5) in Belgrade, and will last for 5 hours. Live results will be available on the [official Bubble Cup website](http://www.bubblecup.org/CompetitorsCorner/Finals/358). Results will be frozen during the last hour of the competition. The winners will be announced at the closing ceremony. The format of the competition is very similar to ACM-ICPC — teams consisting of up to three people are allowed, and they have one computer and five hours to solve problems without partial scoring. Ties are broken using the usual time penalty rules. ...

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Mirror of Bubble Cup X Finals on Codeforces Hi Codeforces! It's our pleasure to announce the 10th edition of Bubble Cup. Bubble Cup is a programing competition organized by [Microsoft Development Center Serbia (MDCS)](https://www.microsoft.com/sr-latn-rs/mdcs), and will be held this weekend. Contest will take place on [Saturday, 2nd of September at 09:30 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=2&month=9&year=2017&hour=9&min=30&sec=0), in Belgrade, Serbia. Live results will be available on [the official Bubble Cup website](http://bubblecup.org/CompetitorsCorner/Results/Live) (results will be frozen during the last hour of the competition). Winners will be announced at the closing ceremony. Just like the two previous editions, this final will be followed by an online mirror competition on Codeforces. Mirror will take place on [Sunday, 3rd of September at 10:00 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=3&month=9&year=2017&hour=10&min=0&sec=0). Contest will last for 5 hours and ACM I...

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Bubble Cup finals mirror on Codeforces Hi Codeforces! As you already know from previous [post](http://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/19957), [Bubble Cup](http://www.bubblecup.org) is a programming competition organized by [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](http://www.microsoft.com/serbia/mdcs/) for eight year in a row. And the finals is coming! This year we came up with a wonderful idea to have an online mirror of the finals on Codeforces! We would like to thank [user:MikeMirzayanov,2015-08-31] and Codeforces team for their work and support in making this happen. **The online competition will be held on 6th of September, Sunday 11-00 AM (Moscow time).** The competition will last for five hours and it will run with the standard **ACM ICPC rules**. This will be a team contest on Codeforces, with teams consisting of up to three people. Amount of problems(7-10) will be anounced later. Contest was mainly prepared by employees of MDCS (+ special thanks to [user:knightL,2015-08-31] and [user:Milanin,2015-09-04] for great...

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Bubble Cup 8 — Finals  Hello Codeforces, In less than a two weeks, finals of 8th edition of Bubble Cup will be held in Belgrade, organized by [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](http://www.microsoft.com/serbia/mdcs/). Unfortunately, there wont be Bubble Run contest this year (which was held last two years for university students in the same tame as BCup, and it was a 24h marathon style contest), but only ACM-style 5 hour long contest for both university and high school teams in the same category. You can read more about contest on the [official website](http://www.bubblecup.org), and read tasks and solutions from past years in the [booklets](http://www.bubblecup.org/Archive). (There are some very interesting tasks, especially from Run contests, so I encourge you all to take a look at them). Usually, the contest was interesting only to teams from Serbia and it's region, but every year we can see more an...

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Bubble Cup Conference Hello, Codeforces! As you know from this [post](http://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/20072) and this [post](http://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/19957), [Bubble Cup](http://www.bubblecup.org/) is a programming competition organized by [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](http://www.microsoft.com/serbia/mdcs/). This year was held the first BubbleCup Conference where competitions gurus talked about competitive programming and more! And I wanted to share with you some great and useful talks. I sorted them in order of when they were presented, because some part of one lecturer is in the video of the other lecturer. I would suggest you to start from begging. Enjoy :) Michal Forisek ([user:misof,2015-10-21]) — talked about how it's easy to get discouraged in competitive programming; how to practise, **do what gives you the largest benefits**; about new point of view through, at first glance, easy graph problem. - [BBC8 Lecture — Michal (part 1)](https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Mirror of Bubble Cup Finals on Codeforces Hi Codeforces! <p> We strike back from last year to held <b>Bubble Cup</b> again &mdash; programming competition organized by <b>Microsoft</b> Development Center Serbia for last nine years in a row. And this year's final is on this weekend! </p> <p> Due to last year's successful experience we decided to organize a mirror of this final on Codeforces again. We would like to thank MikeMirzayanov and Codeforces for this great platform and their help. Competition will start at 11-th of September at <strike>11 AM</strike> 12:00 (Moscow time). Contest will last for 5 hours and will go by ACM ICPC rules. It will be a competition for teams of 1-3 members. There will be 9 problems. </p> <p> Contest was mainly prepared by employees of MDCS, [user:knightL,2016-09-09] and [user:Milanin,2016-09-09]. Additional thanks to [user:bayleef,2016-09-09] and [user:vitar,2016-09-09] for their help in testing. </p> ![ ](https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/12783517_1083725821680417_1321...

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Bubble Cup 13 — Kick-Off  Hello, Codeforces! [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](https://www.microsoft.com/sr-latn-rs/mdcs) is thrilled to announce the start of the **13th edition of Bubble Cup competition**! Bubble Cup is an international, **ACM-style team contest** aimed at university and high school students. You can register and take part in the competition on the [BubbleCup website](https://www.bubblecup.org/). Qualifications consist of two online rounds which start on the **1st of April** and on the **1st of May** and last for **25 days each**. Both online rounds will feature around **10 problems** selected from various Online Judges, including at least one challenge problem! The best **16 teams** will compete in the **5-hour** long finals in **Belgrade, Serbia**, tentative date being **September 2020** due to COVID-19 situation. Biggest change in the rules from the previous iterations is that now for any country oth...

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Bubble Cup No. 10 Kick-Off  **UPD.** [Round 1](http://bubblecup.org/Home/CompetitorsCorner) has officially started! Bubble Cup X I’m excited to announce the start of the 10th anniversary edition of [Bubble Cup](http://bubblecup.org/) competition! Bubble Cup is an international, ACM-style team contest aimed at university and high school students organized by [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](http://www.microsoft.com/serbia/mdcs/). You can register **today** on [BubbleCup.org](http://bubblecup.org/). Qualifications consist of two online rounds which start on the 1st of April and on the 1st of May and last for 25 days each. Ten best university teams and ten best high school teams will compete in the 5 hour long finals in Belgrade in September. Teams can consist of high school pupils or students. Students must attend the same university. Complete rules can be found [here](http://bubblecup.org/Home/Rules). There are going to be some great prizes awaiting t...

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Bubble Cup No. 12 Kick-Off  **Bubble Cup 12** [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](https://www.microsoft.com/sr-latn-rs/mdcs) is thrilled to announce the start of the 12th edition of [Bubble Cup](http://www.bubblecup.org/) competition! <br/> Bubble Cup is an international, ACM-style team contest aimed at university and high school students. You can register **now** on [BubbleCup.org](http://www.bubblecup.org/). Qualifications consist of two online rounds which start on the 1st of April and on the 1st of May and last for 25 days each. Both online rounds will feature around 10 problems selected from Online Judges, including one challenge problem! The best 16 teams will compete in the 5-hour long finals in **Belgrade, Serbia**, date being _September, 14th_. For university teams, all team members must attend the...

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Bubble Cup No. 9 Kick-Off  Hello! I'm happy to announce the start of the 9th iteration of [BubbleCup](http://www.bubblecup.org/) competition. BubbleCup is an ACM-style team competition organized by [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](http://www.microsoft.com/serbia/mdcs/) held annually in Belgrade in September. Qualifications consists of two online rounds which start on the 1st of April and May and last for 25 days. The best teams will compete in the 5 hours long finals in Belgrade. Teams can consist of high school pupils or students. Students must attend the same university. Complete [rules](http://bubblecup.org/rules) can be found [here](http://bubblecup.org/rules). Best of luck in the competition!

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Bubble Cup No. 8 Kick-Off  Hello! I'm happy to announce the start of 8th iteration of [BubbleCup](http://www.bubblecup.org/) competition. BubbleCup is "ACM-style" team competition organized by [Microsoft Development Center Serbia](http://www.microsoft.com/serbia/mdcs/) held annually in Belgrade in September. Qualification consists of two online rounds which start on first of April and May and last for 25 days. Best teams will compete in 5 hours long final in Belgrade. Teams can consist of high school pupils or students. Students must attend the same university. Complete rules can be found [here](http://bubblecup.org/Rules-and-Instructions1). Best of luck in the competition! Aleksandar UPD1: Second round starts on the first of May, not March!

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