Hi Codeforces,

Gunn High School's competitive programming club will be hosting the Bay Area Programming Contest on March 3, 2024. You can find our website, with detailed information, at bapc.gunncpc.com. You can register for the contest at this link.

Problems were set by ezraft, GusterGoose27, lce4113, and Ench_Lolz with help from BucketPotato and qpwoeirut.

Thanks to our testers: willy108, izhang, Jasonwei08, flamestorm, amsraman, eggag32, EnDeRBeaT, NightWizard777, Feet_McYeet and especially to myst-6, omeganot, and Benq.

Time and place

The contest will be held in-person at Gunn High School. It will start at 12:30 PM local time. Click here to see the exact time in your timezone.

We will be providing free lunch for in-person participants. People who can't make it in person can participate in an online mirror.

Contest format and rules

Both the in-person contest and the online mirror will be held through DOMjudge. The contest will be 3 hours long, with 8-16 problems. Scoring will be ICPC-style.

Participants can form teams of up to three people. In-person participants are allowed one computer per team. Regarding use of the internet and similar, we will be using the same rules as the USACO-- in particular, participants may only look up basic information about their programming language. Templates, OEIS, generative AI, Codeforces blogs, and similar are not allowed. Teams will be given a printed copy of KACTL.

Online participants do not need to follow these rules, since we have no way of enforcing them.

Check the website for more details.

Prizes

Prizes will only be available for in-person precollege teams. More information will be added soon.