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ACM Live Archive : Top 5 Regions
By arasmus, history, 8 years ago, In English

Please mention ( according to you ) which 5 regions in the ACM live archive are the *best to practice from.

*by best I mean that the difficulty of questions should be high and the scope(breadth of topics covered) should be good too.

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8 years ago, # |
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Good day to you!

Perhaps I might be wrong, but in my opinion, I liked:

1) Dhaka
2) Northeastern (Russia)
3) Beijing
4) Southeastern {European} (not the hardest, but I liked the problems)
5) Central {European}

Anyway — I'm not an expert — also I'm a little bit influenced by living in Europe + by fact I'm not a strong programmer!

Good Luck & Have Nice Day! :)

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    The best thing about European regional is that they usually have editorials. With Beijing you're usually stuck reading some Chinese blogs with Google translate, which is definitely not very comfortable.

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      do u have links to editorials of any regional....(i have tried google but to no avail)

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        Hello, an example is here:

        last CERC: I guess you have to search for the regionals directly and search on their sites!

        Good Luck! :)

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I have a personal preference for South Asia Region so,

1) Phuket

2) Jakarta

3) Europe — Central

4) Daejeon

5) Dhaka

I also suffer with regions without official editorials, I don't a point in proposing an ICPC-like problem but don't present a solution.

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