We invite you to participate in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) qualifiers and the Open Cup series. Participants solve problems by building complete programs to solve them. The programs are sent to a testing system which checks their correctness. Everything is done automatically online.
The competition is team-based. A team consists of three or fewer members. Students of all courses at VU MIF (or other faculties) can participate.
This competition prepares for the Olympics, the quarter-finals scheduled for October. We will represent Vilnius University. The best performing teams qualify for the semi-finals, which should take place this autumn at Delft University in the Netherlands (this has been the case every year in the past). It is worth mentioning that we have qualified for the ICPC finals twice: in 2017, the finals were held in the USA (where we came 34th), and in 2018, in Beijing (China), where we came 12th and won bronze. The selection will be determined by the Baltic Selection tournament, which will include teams from Estonian and Latvian universities as well as KTU and VGTU. It is planned that everything will take place in the MIF STSC (Šaltinių str. 1A) computer classrooms. The specific time and place of the tournaments (classrooms) will be specified.
The Open Cup series runs throughout the school year (about 20 rounds) and takes place on Sundays at the MIF STSC. Usually from 10 am to 3 pm. The results also influence the selection for the Olympics. The first round is scheduled for September. By the way, it is possible to join from any stage.
We are also quite active in Codeforces tournaments (individually and in teams), coding camps and other open international Olympiads. You can see the performances of MIF teams from the last few academic years here.
The Programming Olympiads are remote by nature, so naturally, this way of participating is also possible, preferably with all team members in one place.
Contact person: Vladas Tumasonis, vladas.tumasonis@mif.vu.lt
If you wish to participate, please write to him with the subject Olympics 2022. Please indicate your name, course and study programme. You can already form teams (and choose a team name). Otherwise, we will create the teams ourselves. You can keep the same (or slightly modified) teams from last year.
Notes.
1. Programming languages: C/C++, Java, Delphi, Python, Perl, etc.
2. English wording of tasks.
2022-09-05