TH-TMO 2017 Problem 4
In a math competition, schools participate, each sending students. The students are separated into groups of so that no two students from the same school are in the same group. The tournament organizers noted that, from the competitors, exactly have participated in the competition before. The organizers want to select two representatives, with the conditions that they must be former participants, must come from different schools, and must also be in different groups. It turns out that there are ways to do this. What is the minimum possible value of ?
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