Hello codeforces community. As we know the world is now facing a huge problem, we hear about it everywhere, I am sure even some of you are staying isolated from people because of it. Some events are getting cancelled because of it, and the most important events for our community are also in danger of being cancelled. I am talking about IOI and ICPC WF. I saw some official announcements regarding COVID-19 from both of the events (ICPC, IOI). I understand that they can't decide anything yet, but I am very surprised not to see anyone discussing the problem here.
I personally think there are only 4 possible solutions
Host the event, but with less countries participating.
Cancel the event
Do something online, and do not require people to travel to Russia/Singapore. (The problem here will be trusting participants)
Delaying the events (I know this will be very hard, and will cost a lot of money)
I would love to hear other people's thoughts on this (mostly regarding the 3rd point), and maybe IC will consider our thoughts when making their final decision.
UPD: There were already some discussions about ICPC here (thanks Chilli for pointing that out), so I think it's better for this blog post to be only for discussions about IOI.
