Useful Information
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South Central SC Regional
About ICPC
The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) provides college students with opportunities to interact with students from other universities and to sharpen and demonstrate their problem-solving, programming, and teamwork skills. The contest provides a platform for industry and academia to encourage and focus public attention on the next generation of computing professionals as they pursue excellence.
The purpose of the ICPC South Central North America Regional Programming Contest (SCUSA RPC) is to bring together as many students from as many different institutions in the South Central North America region to compete in a spirit of fun.
Introduction
The ICPC is a multi-tiered competition among teams of students representing institutions of higher education. Teams first compete in regional contests held around the world from September to November each year. The top teams from each regional contest qualify to advance to the next tier of the competition, culminating in the ICPC World Finals.
Organization
The ICPC is organized according to the ICPC Policies and Procedures. For each regional contest, the Regional Contest Director (RCD) is charged with executing a regional contest in accordance with the regional rules and ICPC policies, procedures, and guidelines. Regional rules may vary to accommodate differences in educational systems and host computing facilities.
The contest rules for the SCUSA Regional Programming Contest (RPC) conform to The Rules of The ICPC Regional Contests as prescribed by the ICPC Steering Committee. In addition, the following rules and/or clarifications are specific to the SCUSA RPC, as allowed under the “Organization” heading in the aforementioned document. Please read and save all rules for reference.
The ICPC SCUSA RPC Steering Committee is responsible for establishing contest rules, policies, and guidelines for the ICPC SCUSA RPC. The Committee is composed of the Site Directors, the Chief Judge, the Systems Manager, and the RCD. They oversee the conducting of the ICPC SCUSA RPC, review The ICPC SCUSA RPC Official Rules document, approve registration fees and budget, and recommend the SCUSA RCD for the following year.
environment.avi Is a video that briefly describes the contest environment and explains how to print.
Kattis info will tell you a little bit about Kattis. This is from last year and some things have changed. But it is stll a good thing to watch if you are not adept at Kattis (the tool you will use to submit your solutions).
Note: The above video has been updated and split into two parts:
Thanks VanB for these videos!
Each time will use one of the team member’s Kattis login to actually log into Kattis for the practice and the Regional contest. Make sure you bring your username and password with you. make SURE that the one you plan to use does NOT use alternative authentication. During contest you will not have access to the alternate sites to authenticate. You must login with your Kattis ID and password.
When the contest is over, all team members should be able to login to Kattis and see the team submissions regardless of which ID was used during contest. This means you do not need to worry about printing your code or dumping it to a USB key. You might consider submitting partially writen code for a problem (that has not been solved to Kattis), so that you will have it. Submission points to not impact your score for unsolved problems.
Sumbmissions that receive Compile Error will NOT be charged the 20 minute time penalty.