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Qualifications

Non-graduating UP students (students with at least a year to stay in the University) from any course or college with or without ACM-ICPC (International) experience are qualified to join. Contestants should form exactly three members per team.

Mechanics

Each team member will be given eight (6) problems to be solved in three (3) hours. These problems include mathematical, geometrical, and analytical problems, among others, that expect a certain form of input, and the program must produce the expected output. These problems will be given in English.

Solutions to problems submitted for judging are called runs. Submissions of runs must be done via PC^2. Each run is judged as accepted or rejected, and the team is notified of the results. Rejected runs will be marked as follows:

• run-time error
• time-limit exceeded
• wrong answer
• presentation error

Notification of accepted runs will be suspended at the appropriate time to keep the final results secret. A general announcement to that effect will be made during the contest. Notification of rejected runs will continue until the end of the contest.

A contestant may submit a claim of ambiguity or error in a problem statement by submitting a clarification request. If the Judges agree that an ambiguity or error exists, a clarification will be issued to all contestants.

While the contest is scheduled to last three and a half hours, the UP ACM Executive Council has the authority to lengthen the contest in the event of unforeseen difficulties. Should the Contest duration be altered, every attempt will be made to notify contestants in a timely and uniform manner.

Submissions, Clarifications, and Notifications

PC^2 is a Java-based Contest Control System that accepts submissions via a network. Submissions of solutions in this contest will be through PC^2. The contestants will be introduced to PC^2 before the contest starts (though prior knowledge of the software is an advantage).

Other issues such as clarifications and other special notifications shall be made via PC^2.

Scoring

The UP ACM Programming Competition Judges are solely responsible for determining the correctness of submitted runs. They are responsible for determining the winners of the UP ACM Programming Competition. They are empowered to adjust for or adjudicate unforeseen events and conditions. Their decisions are final.

Teams are ranked according to the most problems solved. Teams who solve the same number of problems are ranked first by least total time and, if need be, by the earliest time of submittal of the last accepted run.

The total time is the sum of the time consumed for each problem solved. The time consumed for a solved problem is the time elapsed from the beginning of the contest to the submittal of the first accepted run plus 20 penalty minutes for every previously rejected run for that problem. There is no time consumed for a problem that is not solved.

Computing Environment

The workstation shall have Windows XP as its operating system. Java 1.6 and C/C++ shall be the languages available. Editors will be vi/vim, emacs, and gedit. The Eclipse IDE shall also be made available.

Contestant Conduct in the Contest Area

Contestants are not allowed to touch anything at the workstation until instructed by the contest facilitator

Questions concerning the contest shall only be addressed to the facilitators.

Disqualification

A team may be disqualified by the contest facilitator, UP ACM Executive Council, or any of its representatives, for any activity that jeopardizes the UP ACM Programming Competition, including but not limited to:

• dislodging extension cords
• unauthorized modification of contest materials
• distracting behavior

The contest facilitator, UP ACM Executive Council, or any of its representative reserves the right to categorize a behavior as distracting.

If you have any questions, contact Manica (+63 915 465 7569).

EDIT: Tickets are already available!
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Interested players may register here!

The team of Marte Raphael Soliza, Kevin Charles Atienza, and John Eddie Ayson (Mga SOGO Ni E.T.) was declared the champion, beating 54 other teams from Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. They solved all 10 problems in 606 minutes (including time penalties).

Meanwhile, the team of Joseph Jesneil Montalbo (Chairperson of the UP ACM), Jose Plutarco Bawagan, and Luke Wicent Sy was ranked fifth among all participants and second among the Philippine teams, edging the following team by only 34 minutes.

The rest of the UPD teams placed 10th, 12th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 26th, and 27th.

Because of their success, Soliza, Atienza, and Ayson are eligible to participate and compete in the 2010 ACM/ICPC World Finals, which will be held in February 2010 at Hanbin University, China. This will be the third time that the country will be represented in the prestigious programming tilt, and the first time for the University.

For the complete results, check out Dr. Raffy Saldana’s blog.

Update: You may register for the next two lectures right now!

Get ready to spin up a kick-ass website for yourself or your org!

On August 29, learn about the current standards and trends in designing a web site during the Web Design Basics lecture. Then on September 5, get to know the Groovy and Grails framework, the latest and hottest in web programming. And on September 12, improve the efficiency and ease-of-use of your website through a talk on Web Usability.

All lectures will be held from 1PM to 5PM at the Lecture Hall, Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall (across NIGS). Admission is free. For questions/whatnot, contact Rose Ann (0926 670 9286).

This series is brought to you by the Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter and Orange and Bronze Software Labs, Ltd.

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Submit your orders now by filling up this form. Deadline of submission of orders is on August 27, 2009.

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