Important update for GNY Regional and a call for volunteers

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Coaches,

I hope everyone is staying safe and doing well.

Because of Covid, this year the ICPC Greater NY Regional contest will be 100% online.

If you have not already reviewed some of the important details please take the time to read over the pdf in the link below.

Please see the following update related to the upcoming ICPC North America Contest Season:

ICPC North America Contest Update

The parameters set up in the update are still subject to change but will resemble that more or less.

Our contest this year will be held on Sunday March 7th, 2021.

Teams can be located in 3 separate locations and may access any non-sentient material online.

ICPC has set up several online practice contests.  It would be a good idea to have your students participate since the environment and rules have changed this year.

IMPORTANT REGIONAL PARTICIPATION NEWS

1. The North American Qualifier (NAQ) is schedule for Thursday Feb 11.

Part of the calculation for the number of teams we can advance to the North America Championship from our region is based on participation in this contest.

It is free to enter and I encourage everyone to have their teams compete.

2. We are developing the image that will be used for our online contest in March.

We are looking for teams to volunteer to help us with testing.

There are no restrictions on who can participate as this is just to help us work out any issues or bugs.  If you or your teams are willing to help out please contact me ASAP.

The first test will be sometime in mid-January.

Please let me know if you have any questions and I will pass along new information as I get it.

Joe