Preliminary Competition
The preliminary competition, in which individual students compete to get their school team qualified for the All-Star competition, consists of four rounds. These rounds consist of a programming and a written part. In the programming part, students have 72 hours to complete a program in any computer language to perform a given task. In the written part, students have a total of 30 minutes to answer 5 questions based on given topics. Students then receive a score of up to 10 points (5 for written and 5 for programming). For the Classroom division, students receive 45 minutes to solve 10 written problems.
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