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By Nyatl, 4 months ago, In English

The ICPC Regional Rules for Regionals (https://icpc.global/regionals/rules) mention that a participant may not meet the age requirement and yet legally compete if certain conditions are fulfilled.

The rules state: "The coach must demonstrate that such an extension would not provide an unfair advantage to the team." However, in the NERC, we have a 32-year-old participant who has 10+ years of experience in coaching and who takes an active part in ICPC-related activities: preparing contests, participating in the Petrozavodsk training camp, etc. How is he eligible? Which part of the rules am I misunderstanding?

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By Nyatl, 19 months ago, In English

I’m preparing an interactive problem which will be uploaded to codeforces and facing the following issue: my alternative solutions that make too many queries get TL for some reason, but I don’t want to see TL in that situation.

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