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What happened with OpenCup competitions?
By kostka, 17 months ago, In English

Do they still take place? The website has been down since forever and I cannot find any info.

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17 months ago, # |
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It seems no one has been able to contact snarknews for quite a while too.

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    There will be new website soon. The season starts in December with some changes in rules. The absence of opencup-ready problemsets except for Petrozavodsk summer was one of reason of the too start (i was not ready to run 2-3 GP and then wait 3 months). Another reason — some things needed to be sorted out, for example, it is related to simplifying the eligibility rules between the GP (matching of the all teams of the big camp as the main event was the real hell). For example:

    1. The communications will be moved into Telegram.

    2. There will be two servers (for those who do not want to use the Yandex one by some objective reasons; however, those who are OK with it can stay there). As soon as the solution with the second server appears, the wide announce of the season will be posted. The existing logins will be regenerated totally for the compatibility.

    3. The team from the onsite is counted as participating in GP ONLY if it added the opencup id/login (like seoul05 or karelia14) in the team name or used the SAME opencup login (atleast for the camps on Yandex or ejudge-opentrains it can easily be implemented at the registration time; useful part of it — the opencup team does not need to memorize their new temporary-camp-login). For competitions where this feature is impossible the organizers may collect and provide the opencup logins list, like one that was used at Pottosin's Olympiad).

    ...and some more.

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      15 months ago, # ^ |
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      Any updates on this? We are in mid-January.

      If not, I want to gauge interest in running an utterly community-based Opencup to fill the void. If you were a problem setter/organizer of some of the previous Opencup rounds, please leave a comment here if you are interested in this.

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        15 months ago, # ^ |
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        Hi, in fact, we are planning to release an annoucement of a similar training series similar to opencup, starting from January. We the chinese ICPC setter teams decides to hold such events for all our contests on our own. Our website is https://ucup.ac/. The Codeforce Blog will be released shortly. We will be very happy if you want to cooperate with us.

        UPD: The annoucement is here: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/111672

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        15 months ago, # ^ |
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        The start of season is moved to the beginning of February (after some camps).

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15 months ago, # |
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As a side note, where does one upsolve OpenCup problems?

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