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3. Competitions help people learn teamwork under pressure.

Well said. I can honestly say that I've been in very few situations more stressful than the ICPC programming competitions. I guess I'm decent but not great at competitive coding, so I always expect more of myself than I end up doing :-/ Great experience though, wouldn't miss it for the world.



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