Table of Contents Contest strategies Pairwise Alignment using A* Exercises Contest strategies PreparationThinking costs energy! Sleep enough; early to bed the 2 nights before. No practising on contest day (and the day before); it just takes energy. During the contestEat! At the very least take a break halfway with the entire team and eat some snacks. Make sure to read all the problems before the end of the contest. In the beginning, split the problems to find the simple ones, but towards the ...