Hello! I'm happy to announce The 2nd Universal Cup. Stage 8: Guilin, which will be held on November 4th, 2023.

The Regionals of the ICPC in the Asia East Continent and the CCPC National Sites have been taking place. The following stages of the Universal Cup (including Stage 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, and 22) are all based on the ICPC Asia East Regionals/Semifinals and CCPC Sites/Finals. The schedule might be adjusted if there are possible conflicts with those regionals.

This contest is prepared by Zhejiang University, which has already been used as The 9th China Collegiate Programming Contest Guilin Site.

You can participate in the contest in the following time windows:

• 02:00 (UTC) on Saturday — 07:00 (UTC) on Saturday

• 05:00 (UTC) on Saturday — 10:00 (UTC) on Saturday

• 08:00 (UTC) on Saturday — 13:00 (UTC) on Saturday

• 11:00 (UTC) on Saturday — 16:00 (UTC) on Saturday

• 13:00 (UTC) on Saturday — 18:00 (UTC) on Saturday

• 15:00 (UTC) on Saturday — 20:00 (UTC) on Saturday

• 18:00 (UTC) on Saturday — 23:00 (UTC) on Saturday

Due to the Meta Hacker Cup, we added two additional windows:

• 15:00 (UTC) on Sunday — 20:00 (UTC) on Sunday

• 18:00 (UTC) on Sunday — 23:00 (UTC) on Sunday

My thanks go to:

• The authors for preparing the contests: Claris, Suika_predator, RDDCCD, Sugar_fan, SSerxhs and pb0207.

• The testers for their valuable advice: jqdai0815, chenjb, xyz2606, nothing100, forxen, kittiwag2, Joyemang, Eden_CY, cxt, lwn_16, Subconscious, RobeZH, LUL____SEPLED1305, add10k, memset0c, Revived_xryjr233, oipotato, shb123, lxlxl, gisp_zjz, Roundgod, triple__a, chenyanbo, apeiya, Antinovae, PaperCloud, fr200110217102 and szb.

• Universal Cup committee for providing the platform.

You can find all the information about the upcoming stages here: https://ucup.ac