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2008 Regional Contest
Posted 5th December
We did it! We have that precious 3rd slot in the Finals.
Congratulations to Michael and the Tasmania team. They are off to Stockholm!
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Raewyn Boersen
Message from our Regional Contest Director
Hi Everyone
Congratulations to the teams and their coaches from the University
of Melbourne and the University of Canterbury who will be
representing the ACM South Pacific Region in Stockholm next
year. It was a splendid effort and mention must also be made
of the University of Tasmania. These 3 teams set themselves
apart by solving 8 of the 9 problems.
While the University of Melbourne has qualified for the World
Finals previously (and indeed they won
it in 1992 - no pressure on this year's team!!!!), this
will be the first time that Canterbury has represented the
Region.
We have increased the number of sites in the Region, going
from 9 to 11 and the Sydney site was filled to overflowing.
We were the first Region to use the new registration system
and we identified a few small issues so I thank you all for
your patience. Only when you are the first users of a system
do you REALLY, REALLY appreciate good programming and great
testing.
While we created some unintentional(!) suspense with one of
the problems, the problem set was interesting and well balanced
and this can be seen by the following statistics:
* 82 teams solving 2 or more problems
* 61 teams solving at least 3 problems.
This is just a fantastic result and one that we have been
trying to achieve for some time. Thanks to the Judging team
for their efforts.
Special mention must be made of IBM. They have been very generous
in their support of us. It makes our job so much easier knowing
that the cost of the prizes and refreshments have been covered.
Thanks also to all the volunteers at each of the sites - the
site co-ordinators, the technicians, the admin staff, the
coaches who acted as judges on the day and all the other volunteers
whose contribution allowed our teams to have this opportunity.
In New Zealand, we ran a parallel contest for 4 high school
teams and this pilot proved that we have some younger students
who are very capable already and who can only get better.
While they had 3 specially designed problems to solve, they
also had the ACM set and managed to solved some of these as
well.
Finally, thanks to all the teams and their coaches. With the
high performance levels it is obvious that there is some great
coaching going on. Thankyou all for providing such a competitive
contest.
Raewyn Boersen
ACM South Pacific Regional Director
See our results page for the top 10.
Posted 14th September
The 2008 Regional Contest is over. Provisional results are
available on the Results page.
Posted 9th September
Countdown
to the contest. Registration closes tomorrow.
Posted 15th August
To register for the 2008 contest, you must use the ACM ICPC Registration System. This has changed since last year. You may like to follow this guide.
Posted 8th August
Registration for the 2008 contest is now open. The contest is on Saturday September 13th.
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