When I first knew about the acm-ICPC, the regional contest seemed like a far dream and even the summit of my dreams then. When I used to see the picture of friends who had been at the previous regional contest in Morocco and Kuwait I flew away with my imagination that I am at their place, but yet the world finals never came into my mind.
Today something happened that made me remember those moments mentioned above. I was checking the pictures of the team that had been to the world finals this year from Egypt from Cairo University who had won the last regional contest. So I remembered that and thought, is it possible? Last local contest I didn’t think we would qualify for the regional contest at all but we did take the first rank which I still don’t know how and think we were not the best. Now it’s nearly the last chance the next regional contest to qualify to the world finals, may be the preceding one as well but it’s yet too early to judge. But now, the circumstances are somewhat similar so shouldn’t I be optimistic?
ana ma3reftesh arod 3la el post da a2ool eh. 7assa ennak 7’adt kol elly ana 7assa beeh aslan we katabto hena.
Just saying ya Rabb
SA, Goood Luck next year. BTW, passing regional is not hard at all and isA you wull be qualified.
regards,
Mostafa Saad
wa Alaykum al Salam wa Rahmato Allah wa Barakatoh,
Welcome for the champions for their first visit 🙂
I think I know your name from Asmaa’s blog roll an probably we met in some contests. Thanks for the comment and the motivations. It’s not hard yes but you know the problem is that only one team or two maximum qualify so it doesn’t depend on how good you are but on how good you are during those 5 hours compared to other teams in addition to some luck as well.
Ok will better leave now. Will check your blog from Asmaa’s blog roll as you didn’t add a working link :p
Good Luck 🙂