ICPC Rule Changes and Team Strategy: 3 Terminals vs. 1

Revision en1, by gigabuffoon, 2020-12-08 07:03:08

Recently I’ve heard that the North American ICPC regionals and divisionals are considering remote participation by all members of the each 3-person ICPC team. 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 difficulties 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.

Tags #acm-icpc, #strategy, twice, bill poucher

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