[Contests] NWERC 2022

Hi, the NWERC 2022 will take place on November 25th to 27th in Delft in the Netherlands. We can most likely send two or three teams of three people each. If you have never competed in GCPC, NWERC or similar contests, you can find some additional information below. Since there may be more than 6 to 9 people who are interested, we may have to do a team selection. We will do up to two qualification contests where everyone competes alone, and the top ranked people in these qualification contests have to form teams and can go to NWERC. The deadline for team selection and registration is around November 3rd. Please fill out https://dudle.rwu.de/NWERC_Selection/ if you are interested. Ideally, we would meet at the university for 3-5h, but there are alternative solutions if you are not available at the chosen time. Feel free to invite your fellow students to the competition. If you have never competed in a GCPC or NWERC, here is some more information: In the NWERC (http://www.nwerc.eu/) you will work in teams of up to three people on one(!) computer. There are about 10 tasks, and your goal is to solve as many of them as possible. You send in your solution as a program that is evaluated automatically on some secret test data. If the program is both correct and fast enough, you have solved the problem. The contest is 5 hours long. If you want to read some example problems, here are those from 2019: https://open.kattis.com/contests/nwerc17open/problems Task I would be considered an easy task, while for example task H is harder. Allowed languages are C++, Java and Python. A computer will be provided to you. The operating system will be some Linux with common IDEs, editors and compilers installed. If there is a specific software you would like to use, please tell me; I can ask the organizers to install it. We bring a printed team reference document that usually contains code for common algorithms. Bringing further material (e.g. USB-Sticks, Smartphones, pdfs) to the contest or using the internet (except the contest system) are not allowed. We usually find sponsors for the travel and accommodation cost and there is no participation fee. To make the organization easier, we have a Discord Server (https://discord.gg/dmhKxApZCT) and an old Telegram group (mostly German, https://t.me/+Qo3tx2Z82pi_1J3D) If you want to train, I recommend https://cses.fi/book/ (especially for beginners) and https://cp-algorithms.com/ Best, Julian