April 16, 2012 at 16:21Welcome to ABBYY CUP 2.0
If you live by the principle of “not a day without a line of Those who took part in the ABBYY Cup a year ago remember that the tasks were quite simple - this made it possible for guys who had never participated in such competitions to try their hand. However, there were those to whom the tasks seemed boring. Therefore, this year the conditions have changed, and the Olympiad will be held in two divisions.
The first one is truly complex, it is designed for experienced students - regular participants in programming championships.
The second division is quite easy, the level of complexity of the tasks in it corresponds to last year's ABBYY Cup. Examples of tasks can be found on the ABBYY website in the Science section . If you have never participated in programming olympiads or, in your opinion, have too little experience, then the second division was created just for you.
By the way, the famous Gena Korotkevich , a Belarusian child prodigy, a multiple winner of international computer science competitions, helped us in preparing the task package for the ABBYY Cup (Gena won the first gold medal at 11 years old, and received 600 points out of 600 possible at the last year’s international Olympics in Thailand )
The second division will be held on April 21, from 18 to 22 hours . First -April 28, from 16 to 21 hours . You can participate in both divisions. Pupils and graduate students can take part out of competition.
In each division there will be 6 tasks, for each you can get 100 points. As in the past year, decisions will be evaluated using automated tests of different difficulty levels. For the tasks of the first division, the cost of tests is 30 or 70 points, for the tasks of the second division - 20, 30 or 50 points, respectively. The official languages of the competition are C / C ++, Pascal, C # and Java. Tasks can be submitted in all languages supported by Codeforces, but the jury does not guarantee the existence of complete solutions in all languages from this list.
Now about the "goodies." The results of both ABBYY Cup divisions can be counted as one of the introductory stages when recruiting for the ABBYY department at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology or when joining a company. In addition, we invite all winners to ABBYY Open Day, and pay for the nonresident winners of the second division to Moscow and back. Well, of course, other nice prizes are expected. About how the winners of the ABBYY Cup visited us last year, read here and in the blog of the participant and winner Alex_KPR .
You can register for the ABBYY Cup here .
Ask questions in the comments and at [email protected]
Tatyana Panferova,
with the support of a group of educational projects
