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First time in IIOT
By Ma3z, 3 years ago, In English

Hi, Codeforces

Anyone here joined a Team-Based competition like ICPC and similar ?

I will be very thankful if you write the common mistakes and your suggestions about solving in a team , because I will join IIOT this year , and I haven't any experience with solving in a team.

More information about IIOT : http://ioit.altervista.org/

Sorry for my poor English.

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Never heard about this contest before, but I'm confused about the rules. what does "awarded contestant" mean in this?

Team can include no more than one awarded contestant of the National Individual Olympiad in Informatics in the previous year

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First time I joined a team contest was ECPC 2020. I was not familiar with team contests especially that I never tried one onsite back then. What happened in ECPC 2020 was disastrous. There was only 1 PC for me, ahmedfouadnew and Blobo2_Blobo2 and we never trained onsite together so we didn't have enough chemistry. This resulted that we fought in the contest and our performance was terrible. Then after we discussed what each of us did wrong and practiced again, in the following onsite team contest(ACPC 2020), our performance was way better. Team strategy is also very important. Try to adapt to the rules of the competition and practice a lot with your team(especially enforcing yourselves to strictly follow the rules. Like if there is only 1 PC, use only 1 PC at least at the start so you can build up planning and chemistry and strategy). The most important thing is team strategy. Every team has a strategy that they should follow to maximize their performance.

For this contest, I guess it is 4 members per 2 PCs(not sure) and it is OI style so focus on combining your OI strategies to maximize score with your team strategy and I guess you won't need much knowledge like practicing for CPC style contests(like a lot of Geometry/DS/linear algebra/etc...).

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    It's $$$4$$$ members and $$$4$$$ PCs this year (because of covid).

    Tasks of level $$$5$$$ require knowledge out of IOI syllabus (e.g. flows, unusual data structures), but they are usually not difficult if you know those topics.

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