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title: Participating in the ICPC 2022 SoCal Regionals
id: 322
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author: "EthanThatOneKid (https://github.com/EthanThatOneKid)"
labels: ["algo"]
created: "2022-03-04T16:13:40.000Z"
edited: "2022-03-05T17:41:33.000Z"
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Participating in the ICPC 2022 SoCal Regionals
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5 students made CSUF history on Saturday, February 26th at the ICPC 2022 SoCal regionals:

ICPC 2022 CSUF athlete portraits (right to left, top to bottom): Aaron Lieberman, Justin Stitt, Yao
Lin, Ethan Davidson, and Charlie Taylor
[https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31261035/156796570-8b2e6590-d461-40d3-b332-017535616126.jpeg]https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31261035/156796570-8b2e6590-d461-40d3-b332-017535616126.jpeg

The event was held at Riverside City College. Check-in began in the morning, then breakfast was
served at the event once we got in.

There was a practice session after breakfast to make sure the competition would go smoothly on the
technical side and to make sure all the competitors were aware of the given development
environment’s capabilities.

After the practice session, we had free lunch out of a Habit food truck. We then began the
competition after the lunch break ended.

Once the time for the competition had run out, all the competitors left their battle stations that
they had been hunched over for the last 5 hours. We then went back to the place where we originally
ate breakfast. At that point, the results of the competition were not finalized; the results of the
last fifteen minutes of code submissions were unknown so that we could experience a suspenseful
ending ceremony.

In the end, a team from Caltech narrowly earned the highest score with the UCLA team coming in a
close second. As for us, our 2022 teams scored the highest combined total score in CSUF x ICPC
history 😆

If you are interested in learning valuable competitive programming skills, you can come to acmAlgo
[https://acmcsuf.com/paths#algo] meetings throughout the semester where our acmAlgo officers will
guide you down the mind-blowing rabbit-hole of programming. To learn more, register as a CSUF
student on our Discord server to chat with our community members.