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2024 Contest Date
2024-Nov-16 (Sat)
Mid-Atlantic Region
• District of Columbia
• East Pennsylvania
• South New Jersey
• Delaware
• Maryland
• North Carolina
• Virginia
• West Virginia
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2024 Mid-Atlantic Regional Contest
- Date: 2024-Nov-16 (Sat)
- Entry fee: $175/team
- Sites: {cnu,jhu,liberty,ncsu,psu,vt,wilkes}.edu
- Deadlines:
- Oct.04 -- Registration now open
- Oct.05 -- NAQ (
North American Qualifier ); only for practice and perhaps team-assignments optional
- Oct.16 (Wed.), 18:00 -- Early Payment Deadline originally Oct.
15
- Oct.24 (Wed.) -- Late Payment Deadline [t-shirts not guaranteed; sites may fill] tentative; orig. Oct.
22
- Nov.08 (Fri. 18:00) -- deadline for finalizing team tiers and team-member assignments
- Nov.16 (Sat.)-- Contest
- Practice contest: The NAQ (
North American Qualifier ) will be held Oct.05.
Many coaches like to use this to help assign teams.
(Despite its name, the NAQ is not required to "qualify" for anything.)
- We will again have a Division 1 and Division 2 contest.
Note: Because of limited availability at sites, registration and payment does not, unfortunately, guarantee that a team will be accepted. We will monitor site-capacity for over-demand, and alert coaches. If a school sends more than three teams to an oversubscribed site, we may ask the coach to reduce their number of teams. Priority takes payment-by-early-deadline into consideration. Final decisions on how many teams can be accepted from a particular school are up to the regional contest director and the site director, as they judge fit. (Of course, full refunds are made for teams we can't accomodate.)
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
java,
python3,
c++,
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 (tentative)
The schedule at each site may vary slightly, with the
exception of the time of the actual competition, which will take place
from 13:30–18:30 13:00 to 18:00.
Updated Oct-27
08:00–08:45 volunteers begin final setup
09:15–10:00 registration and light breakfast; distribute certificates, t-shirts etc.
10:00–11:00 welcome, introduction, rules, orientation
11:00–12:00 practice problem
12:00–13:10 lunch
13:10–13:30 get fully seated & ready Open kattis.com, but nothing else (no editors, shells)
13:30–18:30 competition
18:30–19:15 dinner
19:00–19:15 results, and awards presentation
Note that 13:30-18:30 is
30min earlier than the 2023 contest, and 30min later than the 2022 contest.
We are working to accomodate Big South conference sites spanning
two timezones and widely different latitudes.
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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