The 3rd Universal Cup Announcement (with Details of Upcoming Online and Onsite Event on June 23!)
by Qingyu · CodeforcesHello everyone, we are happy to announce that the 3rd Universal Cup has started officially. Universal Cup is an organization dedicated to offering training resources for competitive programming teams. In the previous season, over 900 teams from more than 500 affiliations all over the world, registered and participated in a total of 28 stages, encompassing contests from Asia, Europe, and America. We also want to express our gratitude to our sponsor Huawei.
- Semifinal and Summer Summit
As announced before (Link), we will host the 2nd Universal Cup Semifinal on June 23, 2024. The contest will start at 17:00 (UTC +8) and end at 22:00 (UTC +8).
Any Universal Cup registered team can participate. If you are new here, please register following the instructions on Registration.
Besides competing to advance to the UCup Finals, sponsored by Huawei, we also prepare prizes for teams in the top 10 (excluding onsite teams in the Summer Summit) . The prize details are as follows (may be replaced by products of similar value when processing):
| Online Rank | Prize for each team member (at most 3) |
|---|---|
| Champion (Rank 1) | HUAWEI WATCH GT 4 (46mm) Spruce Green |
| First Prize (Rank 2 — 3) | HUAWEI FreeClip |
| Second Prize (Rank 4 — 10) | HUAWEI Band 9 |
After the online semifinal, we will host a stream of all invited teams competing in the semifinal contest at the Summer Summit event in Cancun, along with problem analysis. The stream will start at 22:00 (UTC +8) and end at 03:00 (UTC +8).
- English: YouTube (through tourist's account!)
- Chinese: Bilibili (through jiangly's account!)
Here is a list of teams that will be competing onsite:
| # | Team | Member 1 | Member 2 | Member 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USA1 (Andrew He, Kevin Sun, Gennady Korotkevich) | ecnerwala | ksun48 | tourist |
| 2 | HoMaMaOvO (Riku Kawasaki, Masaki Nishimoto, Yui Hosaka) | maroonrk | maspy | hos.lyric |
| 3 | 03 Slimes (Kangyang Zhou, Mingyang Deng, Ziqian Zhong) | orzdevinwang | Rewinding | TLE |
| 4 | Polish Mafia (Wojtek Nadara, Mateusz Radecki, Marcin Smulewicz) | Swistakk | Radewoosh | Marcin_smu |
| 5 | Mei Dui Yao (Jiyu Shen, Qiuyang Zhang) | PubabaOnO | froggyzhang | |
| 6 | Almost Retired Dandelion (Aleksei Daniliuk, Oleg Merkurev, Nikolay Kalinin) | Um_nik | Merkurev | KAN |
| 7 | Let it Rot (Yi Qian, Bo Peng, Shiyuan Feng) | skip2004 | p_b_p_b | Warriors_fsy |
| 8 | Yolki-palki (Vsevolod Nagibin, Denis Mustafin, Tikhon Evteev) | Pechalka | Kapt | Tikhon228 |
| 9 | yosupo (Kohei Morita, Takuto Shigemura, Ken Sugimori) | yosupo | sigma425 | sugim48 |
| 10 | Speed Star (Akihito Yoneyama, Kentaro Matsushita) | YoshikaMiyafuji | noimi | |
| 11 | Amstelpark (Pavel Kunyavsky, Alice Sayutina, Mikhail Ipatov) | PavelKunyavskiy | cdkrot | LHiC |
We also prepare prizes for this onsite competition:
| Onsite Rank | Prize for each team member (at most 3) |
|---|---|
| Champion (Rank 1) | HUAWEI MateBook X Pro i7 13th |
| Silver (Rank 2) | HUAWEI WATCH Ultimate |
| Bronze (Rank 3) | HUAWEI WATCH GT 4 |
| Honorable Mention (Rank 4 -11) | HUAWEI FreeClip |
- 3rd Season Online Stage
As usual, this season's main activity is our online stage, where we hold weekly mirror contests. Please refer to our website https://ucup.ac/ for previous results. If you are interested in participation, please register following the instructions on Registration.
The online stage rule is still the same as last season:
Rules
- The current schedule is being updated gradually on the main page of our website https://ucup.ac/. We will host Stage America as a trial contest on June 1st, which is unrated.
- The contest platform is QOJ. To provide more flexibility, instead of 3 fixed time windows, teams now can choose to start to compete in one of the following 8 windows as they want:
- 08:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday ~ 13:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday
- 10:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday ~ 15:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday
- 13:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday ~ 18:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday
- 16:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday ~ 21:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday
- 19:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday ~ 24:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday
- 21:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday ~ 02:00 (UTC +8) on Sunday
- 23:00 (UTC +8) on Saturday ~ 04:00 (UTC +8) on Sunday
- 02:00 (UTC +8) on Sunday ~ 07:00 (UTC +8) on Sunday
- For teams that have already registered, if they have done at least 3 contests in the previous season, their account will be preserved and enrolled into the current season automatically. Otherwise, the same as new teams, please register following the instructions on Registration.
To provide more convenience, we implement a few more features on the system, including team composition, extra time window application, etc:
System Update
Under construction, will be updated soon.
Lastly, we would like to express our gratitude to MikeMirzayanov for letting us advertise Universal Cup in Codeforces and providing the great platform Codeforces and Polygon to help prepare contests. We are also very thankful to all contest stage setters for your support of the Universal Cup. If any setter would like to propose a stage, please feel free to contact us.
Universal Cup Committee: