Dear all, NWERC (https://2025.nwerc.eu/) is our biggest competitive programming event of the year. It is hosted yearly and includes teams from all around Germany, Benelux, UK, Scandinavia, and more. This year it is hosted at the end of November in Karlsruhe. We will probably be able to send three teams (i.e., 9 people) this year. So there should be enough places for many of you! To decide who is going to Karlsruhe, we will organize a selection contest on Saturday, October 25th in the auditorium 407 of E1.1 at 11:00. I encourage everybody to come and try your luck! You can check whether you are eligible or not using this diagram (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPuELBOzLNYtjlzGZXKOQTr2Q0SI85dx/view). In case of doubt, contact me. Also, note that in many situations exceptions can be made, so also contact me if you are unsure about your situation. Please press a reaction button below this message to indicate that you're going to participate in the selection contest so that everybody can see who else participates and figure out potential NWERC teams in advance. P.S. If you know any potentially interested people who have just started studying at our university or have already been here for some time but are not subscribed to either our mailing list or the NWERC telegram group, please let them know about this (and invite them to the chat). My contact information: - telegram: https://t.me/peltorator - email: egorbachev(a)cs.uni-saarland.de Best, Egor