ICPC World Finals 2020 Experience

Revision en1, by IBaloff, 2021-10-01 21:12:25

Hello, Codeforces community!

As you may know, today is the first day of the prestigious ICPC World Finals 2020 competition. I am grateful for an opportunity to participate in this competition as a Wildcard team, since we didn't perform well in semifinals and wouldn't qualify for finals otherwise. I am very thankful to the ICPC committee for this decision.

We arrived at the Sheremetyevo airport this morning and were pleased for a warming reception of ICPC volunteers who took us to hotel Crowne Plaza.

I particularly liked the spectacular look of main lobby:

Here is a photo of my and girlfriend's room:

We visited the Moscow City during the day. Here is a photo of etoro:

Also I was happy to see jiangly on TV ;) :

I am really excited about the new format that allows one computer per team member. We sometimes wrote quarterfinals this way with our own computers- it was much more comfortable than fighting each other for a single computer. As you know, everybody wants to debug his code on a computer, and this new rule will make the participation much more pleasant for us (and I hope for you too)!.

Have a nice finals!

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