The Bay Area Programming Contest (link to last year's announcement) returns on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Detailed information, which will be updated as the contest day draws nearer, is at bapc.gunncpc.com. You can register for the contest at this link.

The authors for this contest are BucketPotato, ezraft, GusterGoose27, hihitherethere, lazulib2, Westin_sheep. Thanks to our testers: Amazed, amsraman, eggag32, Jasonwei08, lethan3, mwen, PurpleCrayon (more to be added soon!). You can thank (or blame) qpwoeirut for the DOMjudge infrastructure that the contest will be hosted on.

Time and place

The contest day is Sunday, March 2, 2025. It will be held in-person at Gunn High School. We will be providing free lunch for in-person participants. Those who can't make it in person can participate in an online mirror.

The exact time when the contest starts has not been decided yet. It will be posted here and on the website soon.

Contest format and rules

Both the in-person contest and the online mirror will be held through DOMjudge. The contest will be 3 hours long, with 9-13 problems. Scoring will be ICPC-style. Participants can form teams of up to three people.

• In-person participants are allowed one computer per team. Regarding use of the internet and similar, we will be using the same rules as the USACO-- in particular, participants may only look up basic information about their programming language. Templates, OEIS, generative AI, Codeforces blogs, and similar are not allowed. Teams will be given a printed copy of KACTL. We will review the rules in the opening ceremony.

• Online participants do not need to follow these rules, since we have no way of enforcing them.

We will create accounts for participants and distribute login information to each team before the contest.

Prizes

Prizes will only be available for in-person precollege teams. More information on available prizes will be on our website, and covered in the opening ceremony.