Hi!

I'm a member of ACM-ICPC community of my university. As this semester started, new students came to our university. The community of ACM-ICPC at my university is quite small. Consequently, we (me and my teammates) decided to advertise these competitions to newcomers and try to attract them. We're mainly focused on ACM-ICPC. I think that most people that are doing competitive programming, are doing it because they find it fun and also they enjoy solving problems (sounds true for me). Now I was looking for some advice on how to actually introduce competitive programming to a person that may have never tried it before. Any opinions on how to attract people to CP is welcomed. Here's mine : - Explain the joy of problem-solving (of course that would be hard if they have never done it before). - Show them the benefits of being a competitive programmer (e.g. it will be easy to pass coding interviews). - Try to