2023-24 Mid-Atlantic Regional Contest
Congratulations to all the teams participating on Feb-24!
Here are the scoreboards:
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You can see formerly-live commentary about the Big South conference (midatl+southeast+south regions) from
ICPC Live
(mirror via codeforces).
Here are the site-specific pages,
with info about parking, check-in location, schedule, etc.:
Christopher Newport University,
James Madison University,
Johns Hopkins,
UNC Chapel Hill,
Virginia Tech,
and
Wilkes University.
Please contact the site-director, for further site-specific information.
General Information
This page is meant to answer many general questions related to
the contest that are not explained elsewhere.
Contacts
The people listed below are responsible for the planning and
conduct of the Mid-Atlantic Regional contest. If you have any questions
please contact the appropriate person.
Regional Contest co-Directors: Drs Ian Barland and Maung Htay
Regional Systems Team Leader: Dr. Andrew Ray
Registration
Registration involves creating teams, paying the registration fee,
and assigning students to teams (possibly in that order).
See instructions.
Mission
The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a
global foundation that provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and
sharpen their problem-solving
and computing skills.
Previous
Problem Sets
Info on
previous Mid-Atlantic problem sets is available,
as well as
a collection of regional- and world-contest problem sets
here.
About the
Contest
Make sure to check the rules for the complete, official
description of the contest requirements. The contest is a multi-tiered
competition among teams of students representing institutions of higher
education. Teams first compete in the Regional Contests;
from there, the top-placing teams from each school advance to
the North American Championship, and then to World Finals.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Contest lasts for five hours. Each
team of three students tries to solve as many problems as possible,
programming the solutions in C++, Java, Python 3, or Kotlin. The team that solves the most
problems correctly wins, with ties broken by the least total time (the
sum of the times consumed for each problem solved, from the beginning of
the contest to the time the correct solution is submitted). A penalty of
20 minutes for each incorrect submission is added to the total time. The
penalty only applies if the problem was eventually solved correctly.
Regional contests mirror the atmosphere of the international contest.
There is a balloon color for each problem, and a
T-shirt color for each group of people (contestant, staff, coach).
Only contestants and staff are allowed in the contest area.
Contest Environment
Languages — C, C++, Java 11, Python 3 (w/ standard library), Kotlin
IDE — Eclipse, VSCode
Editors — VIM, EMACS
OS — UNIX/LINUX. Printing will be via command-line,
so know ls , cd (and maybe how TAB auto-completes and up-arrow repeats commands), and where your IDE puts your file!
Teams
Teams may be composed of students enrolled at least half-time
in a degree program at their school, including co-op students in good
academic standing. See the
official rules
for exact team composition and eligibility.
Reference
Materials
Teams may bring any non-machine-readable references that they
wish. This includes books, printed notes, and written handwritten notes.
Electronics and removable media are prohibited.
Language APIs will also be available during the practice sessions and contest.
Mid-Atlantic Region
If your school falls within another region but you wish to
participate in this one, you must contact the Director of Regional
Contests to receive permission. Please check the rules at the International
Contest site for more details (under "Where to Compete").
The Mid-Atlantic Contest will be conducted over a network comprising
several geographically distributed sites throughout the region. Teams can
participate from the site of their choice,
subject to available space (see the
registration section for more
information on how teams are assigned to sites).
Example Schedule
The schedule at each site may vary slightly, with the
exception of the time of the actual competition, which will take place
from 14:00 to 19:00 ET.
Here are the site-specific pages
(including schedule)
for
Christopher Newport University,
James Madison University,
Johns Hopkins,
UNC Chapel Hill,
Virginia Tech,
and
Wilkes University.
These specific schedules may differ from the following sample (except for the 14:00-19:00 contest, which
is fixed).
09:00–09:45 volunteers begin final setup
09:45–10:30 registration and light breakfast; distribute t-shirts etc.
10:30–11:30 welcome, introduction, rules, orientation
11:30–12:30 practice problem
12:30–13:40 lunch
14:00–19:00 competition 1hr later than last year!
19:00–20:00 dinner
19:30–20:15 results, and awards presentation
See the sidebar-links above, for site-specific information.
Scoreboard
During the contest the
scoreboard page will have real-time standings,
except during the last hour when the scoreboard may be frozen.
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