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By -is-this-fft-, 9 months ago, In English

Hi everyone!

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After a successful camp last February (announcement, wrap-up), we are happy to announce that Osijek camp will be returning on 16.-24. September 2023 — just in time to prepare for the World Finals in November as well as several regional contests throughout the fall. The camp is hosted by the Department of Mathematics at J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek and is brought to you by the organizing team of adamant, -is-this-fft- and ajovanov.

The camp is inspired by various competitive programming camps that we attended during our active years in ICPC, and is aimed to help college students prepare for ICPC regional contests and finals. The camp will consist of 7 ICPC-style contests and 2 days off.

Details

Participation fee for onsite participants is 150€ per person. It does not include regular meals, travel or accommodation. Some further details about location, travel and food options can be found on the website.

If you want to participate, but are unable to come onsite, we offer a reduced fee of 100€ per person for online participation. It is also possible to reduce fees individually if you are unable to attend some of the contests. This will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

We support and empathize with those affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine, therefore we offer a 100€ discount for affected individuals and teams affiliated with Ukrainian institutions. In other words, the fees would be 50€ and 0€ per person for onsite and online participation correspondingly.

The expected starting time for the contests is 10am CEST. For online participants, it is still a preferred starting time, but we will make accommodations for other starting times.

Most of our contests are fresh and developed for this camp. A small number of contests may be based on previous contests that have not been released to the general public. If you have seen some problems of a contest before, you can't participate on that day (and your participation fee will be reduced accordingly). We will privately contact participants who might be affected. Based on feedback, we will have a silence period until the end of November 2023, during which camp materials will not be released to the public. Therefore, we ask participants to not discuss the problems in public until that date.

Participants

If you are interested in participating, please fill the form here.

We ask you to register before September 8 if you want to participate online and before September 2 if you want to participate onsite.

Also, if your university or organization has a lively ICPC community that may be interested in attending the camp, and you have some contacts of people in charge (e.g. coaches) we would highly appreciate if you could fill the form here, so that we can send an invitation. Thanks!

Problemsetters

We'd like to thank and praise the authors of the contests in the camp, including:

  • jeroenodb — Codeforces International Grandmaster, Computational geometry enjoyer. NWERC 2021 and 2022 bronze medalist.
  • fwitt — POI silver medalist.
  • Adam_GS — BOI 2023 winner, EJOI 2021 gold medalist, Codeforces International Grandmaster, problemsetter for OCPC 2023 winter.
  • Asymmetry — IOI silver medalist, CEOI and BOI gold and two times POI gold medalist. CERC 2022 gold medalist.
  • ppavic — triple IOI gold medalist.
  • dorijanlendvaj — double IOI gold medalist, Codeforces Legendary Grandmaster.
  • jtnydv25 — author of over 50 problems.
  • Claris — ICPC 2017 and 2018 world finalist.
  • -is-this-fft- — ICPC 2019 world finalist, Google Hash Code 2020 finalist.

...and others. We would also like to thank Um_nik and nor for their help with reviewing problem proposals.

You can find more details about contest rules and technical setup on the website.

Sponsors

Last but not least, we would like to say special thanks to our sponsors, who make the camp possible. If you are interested in sponsoring next editions of the camp or have any questions, please feel free to reach out at ocpc (at) mathos (dot) hr.

Finally, we would also like to thank Codeforces for guidance and promoting this announcement to the main page, eolymp for providing us an online judge for the contests and the Department of Mathematics at J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek for all their organizational support and providing us a physical location to conduct the camp.

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ORZ -is-this-fft- ...(Looking forward for this amazing contest sponsered by JANE STREET ) Super excited :)

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what rating range is recommended for participation in the camp?

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    The aim of the camp is to help participants prepare for ICPC regional contests and world finals, and you should expect an appropriate difficulty level for that. In terms of some other camps, this would translate to "Div. A" level.

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where

Where cancel

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    Aeren using white theme, opinion rejected.

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    No Aeren problemset $$$\implies$$$ no participants $$$\implies$$$ cancel

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Overlap with MBL :(

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I'm looking for two teammates for this camp (the rest of my ICPC team can't join). Please contact me if you are interested!

UPD: I've found a teammate, we need another one.

UPD: we have finally found the last teammate!

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Hi everyone! Brief reminder that the registration deadline for onsite participants is in around a week, and for online participants in around 2 weeks :)