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After successful camps last year (winter wrap, fall wrap), we are happy to announce that Osijek camp will be returning on 17.-25. February 2024 — just in time to prepare for the World Finals in... Maybe this spring? As well as several regional contests throughout the fall. The camp is hosted by the School of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Osijek and is brought to you by the organizing team of adamant and -is-this-fft-.
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.
If you want to get a feel of the contests, two contests from the last edition will be featured in Universal Cup contests soon:
- Estonia contest, scheduled on 2024.01.20.
- Delft contest, scheduled on 2024.02.03.
After Universal Cup rounds, the contests will also be uploaded to Codeforces gym.
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 CET. 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 World Finals 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 February 9 if you want to participate online and before February 3 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:
- qwerty787788 — ICPC 2015 World Champion, Google HashCode 2019 and 2020 winner, CodeChef SnackDown 2016 and 2019 winner.
- antontrygubO_o — author of 1188B - Count Pairs.
- jeroenodb — Codeforces International Grandmaster, Computational geometry enjoyer. NWERC 2023 silver medalist.
- 998kover — IOI gold medalist, problemsetter for IZhO and data structure enjoyer.
- TheScrasse — Codeforces International Grandmaster, SWERC 2023 silver medalist, Codeforces coordinator.
- KLPP — Codeforces International Grandmaster, SWERC 2023 silver medalist, IOI silver medalist.
- Lebossle — Codeforces Grandmaster, problemsetter for ICPC Latin America 2021+.
- adamant — Codeforces Grandmaster, maintainer of cp-algorithms.com, Osijek camp organizer, author of over 60 competitive programming problems.
- gen — ICPC 2012 and 2014 world finalist, Google Hashcode 2017 finalist, coauthor of 7 Codeforces contests.
- de_sousa — SWERC 2023 silver medalist.
- flamestorm — MIT student, author of over 50 competitive programming problems.
... And others. We would also like to thank Um_nik and errorgorn 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.
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 School of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Osijek for all their organizational support and providing us a physical location to conduct the camp.
Finally, we kindly thank ICPC foundation for their help and support.