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2007 Regional Contest
Posted 26th September
Congratulations to the University of Auckland and Griffith University on their success at our Regional Contest. These two teams will be representing us in Canada in April 2008. The team UA: Thursday, Heather Macbeth, Matthew Gatland and Matthew Steel and their coach Michael Dinneen advance to the Finals as first place getters and New Zealand representatives, solving 6 problems in 1164 minutes. In second place, Michael McMullen, Katie McLaughlin and Nicholas Dahm competing as 'The Toclafane', solved 5 problems in 581 minutes. Their coach was Andrew Rock. They also advance to the Finals, representing Australia. In position 3 and 4 are teams from the University of Western Australia and Australian National University respectfully. 'Where's Cameron' from Perth were only 9 minutes behind the Griffith team (5 problems in 590 minutes) and ANU Grey solved 5 problems in 667 minutes.
A big thank you to all the contest support staff who made it possible for all of our teams to have this opportunity - site directors, technicians, judges and those of you who took other roles needed on the day. Many volunteers worked behind the scenes to bring this event to fruition. Hossam Elgindy led the judging team and we would like to thank them all for providing a challenging set of problems for the teams to solve. (Next year we will attempt to have more problems at the lower end of the difficulty scale). We had four new site directors - Ian Welch in Wellington, Richard Lobb in Christchurch, Bernie Pope in Melbourne and Judy Kay in Sydney. Thank you for supporting your students in this way.
Feedback re the medals has been positive and these, the t-shirts and the pens were only possible due to the generous support of our sponsor IBM .
Coaches, thank you for encouraging your students to participate. We have a record number of teams (25) at our Adelaide site and our three enthusiastic Site directors there who rotate the contest around their universities show what can be done when we work together and share the load. Perhaps other sites might like to follow their lead.
And of course, to all the contestants , thank you for participating. We hope you had fun, that you learned a little and that you were challenged enough by the problem set that you will want to come and compete again next year.
Visit the results page for a listing of the top 10 in the Region.
Cheers
Raewyn Boersen
ACM South Pacific Regional Director
Posted 15th September
Contest day has arrived. Hopefully you will be able to follow the contest from this Web site!
Posted August 25th
Registration has been open for a few weeks, and registrations
are trickling in slowly! The contest is on Saturday September
15th.
Current
team list.
2007 World Finals
Posted March 17th
Our teams are just back from the finals in Tokyo where each
achieved better than "Honorable Mention". Congratulations
to all, and especially to the team from University of Auckland
who came 11th out of 88.
Posted January 21st
You will be pleased to know that we have a THIRD team advancing
to the Finals in Tokyo.
We have a wildcard and the UNSW team and Hossam are the lucky
recipients. Here is what ACM had to say:
"The University of New South Wales is a wild card and their
advancing to the Finals is due to the model we are using that
allows a small number of wildcards to be used for high performance
teams that have solved the same number of problems as the top
team in their region. Very exciting!"
Raewyn Boersen
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