IIT Kharagpur ACM ICPC Asia Regional Site 2016 International Collegiate Programming Contest

Hosted By : IIT Kharagpur
Sponsored By : IBM
Competition Name : Asia Regional Kharagpur Site ACM ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest 2016
Onsite Contest Dates : 16th – 17th December, 2016

Website : http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/

Asia Kharagpur Programming Contest:

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a multitier, team-based, programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University. The contest involves a global network of universities hosting regional competitions that advance teams to the ACM-ICPC World Finals.

Related : ACM ICPC Asia Region Kolkata Site 2016 : www.contest.net.in/16247.html

Participation has grown to several tens of thousands of the finest students and faculty in computing disciplines at almost 2,000 universities from over 80 countries on six continents. The contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. Quite simply, it is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world.

Rules for Asia Kharagpur first Round Online Programming Contest:
** The contest will be conducted over the Internet, on codechef platform and it will be of two hours duration.
** It is a team event. A team consists of 3 contestants.
** Teams whose registration formalities are cleared are only eligible to participate in the contest.
** You have to login with the team login id and password that will be been sent to you by via email.
** Any number of teams may participate from an Institution.
** Please do not discuss strategy, suggestions or tips in the comments during a live contest. Posting questions clarifying the problem statement is ok.
** Comments will be published only after admin approval during the contest.
** Contest problems will become visible on the contest landing page on CodeChef on Saturday, 22th October 2016 (the contest time will be intimated in due course time).
** Organizing Institute will not be responsible in case your program does not work at our environment, so try to use one of the mentioned compiler versions.
** Judge’s decision will be treated as final. No correspondence in this regard will be entertained.
** Kharagpur Site will not be responsible for any internet failure during the online contest at the contestant’s site.
** Each participating team must submit solutions within 2 hours from the contest start time as mentioned in the submission procedure.
** Any type of discussion on the contest problems during the contest may lead to disqualification of not only the team but also all teams of the same Institute.
** Any complain must be sent within 24 hours of the contest to the regional contest director at acm.icpc@iitkgp.ac.in. Only coaches from their registered e-mail Id can make complain, complain from any other person will not be entertained.

Ranking Procedure:
** You will receive one point for solving a problem (passing all test cases – no partial credit), regardless of the level of difficulty of that problem.
** Teams are ranked according to the most problems solved. Ties will be broken by the total time for each team in ascending order of time.
** Compilation error will not count towards the penalty.
** 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.
** Each program will be tested based on our critical test data. A program will be considered as correct if its output matches with our output against our critical test data.
** Selection of Teams may or may not reflect the Ranking of the Teams. For selection of the team procedure read below.

Team Selection for Onsite Contest:
** There are 70 slots for the onsite contest.
** The teams which could not solve even a single problem in the preliminary contest are eliminated. The remaining teams are ranked according to performance.
** Assuming there are N number of problems in the preliminary contest, selection of teams for onsite contests are done as follows, subject to the constraint that maximum number of teams from a single institute can not exceed three.
** Teams solving all the N problems are selected first.
** The remaining slots will be filled by selecting top ranking team from each institute according to the rank after removal of the teams selected in Step 1.
** If slots are still available, the second ranking team from each institute will be selected according to rank. This procedure will continue to third ranking teams in each institute (subject to above constraint), if vacancy exists.

Note:
Foreign teams need not participate at online contest, they will be directly promoted to onsite round. But they must register at the Baylor site by the due date.