Every year the Harvard Computing Contest Club (HC3) fields at least two teams of 3 undergraduates each to compete in the Northeastern Regionals of the ICPC Programming Competition. The Harvard team that does best there, if it does well enough, goes to the North American Championship, and if that team does well enough there, the team goes to the ICPC World Finals.

Team members will be determined by performance on the team selection programming contest.

Logistics

This year, the selection contest is on this Sunday, Feburary 20th from 9 AM to 1 PM at Science Center B10. The contest will last four hours. We will then discuss team formation from 1 PM to 2 PM. The only unusual stipulation for the contest is you may only use pen and paper, no computer, for the first hour. This is meant to simulate the real contest, where there are three of you and only one computer.

The contest will take place on codeforces.com, so please create an account on the website and (optionally) familiarize yourself with the submission process by submitting on this problem.

Rules

The only allowed reference materials during the contest are your brain, your computer, as well as any PDF of reasonable length (to be printed) you can send to Therese Wu (ywu@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu), for use on the contest. You may also refer to the documentation links for your preferred language (C++, Java, and Python), and any text editor you like.

The regional contest date is Saturday, March 5, 2022, with a tentative start at 2pm, and the Harvard team that does best there, if it does well enough, will go to the ACM-ICPC World Final. Make sure you can make this date before trying out!

After the contest, we will choose teams based on the results. Please also fill out this form before the contest to check for conflicts.

Registration (IMPORTANT!)

To register for the contest, please send an email to hc3-coaches@g.harvard.edu with your CodeForces username. You must be a full time student at Harvard College at the time of the Regional Contest (i.e. this Spring Semester).

We need to have a good estimate of how many are coming to the in order to provide materials. If you decide not to participate after all, email us again so we have good estimates.

You can participate in a selection contest even if you do not want to be on a team (e.g., in order to practice against the chance you will want to be on a team the following year). BUT, you must tell us by the END OF THE SELECTION PROGRAMMING CONTEST (1 pm) if you want to be on a team, so if you are unsure, be prepared to make this decision on the spot.

If you participate in a Team Selection Contest we will put you on our HC3 mailing list. You can always ask us to remove you, or ask to be added even if you do not participate in a selection contest.

If you would like HC3 to participate in other contests or have other kinds of practices, please make a proposal.

Please send questions or comments to hc3-coaches@g.harvard.edu.