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Team Composition
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A representative of the sponsoring institution, typically a faculty member,
must serve as or designate the team coach. The coach must certify the
eligibility of contestants, if required by the Regional Contest Director.
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The coach must serve
as point-of-contact with the team before (e-mail, fax or material mail) and
during (direct conversation) the Southwestern European Regional Contest
activities.
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A team is not eligible to compete
in the Southwestern European Regional Contest until the Contest Secretary
has received all materials from the faculty advisor that certify the eligibility.
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All teams who want to participate
have to check-in at the registration desk. A team cannot compete in the
Southwestern European Regional Contest if the participation fee is not
paid by the start of the actual contest. The location of the registration
desk and he office hours will be announced to the participants in advance.
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The participation fee will not
been refunded in case the team can not or does not want to participate
after registration.
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Contestant eligibility is determined
during the academic term ending closest to the 1st November 2000. Graduation
and degree conferrals are considerd to occur after a term has been completed,
not during that term. Any questions of eligibility should be posed to the Regional
Contest Director. His decision is final.
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Each team consists of three
"contestants".
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A certain educational institution
can send up to three teams to the Southwestern European Regional Contest.
Team places (two per institution) are assigned on a first-come first-served
basis. If all requests for first and second teams are satisfied, third
teams may be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. The Regional
Contest Director is responsible for accepting or rejecting teams.
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Contestants are not required to
be student members of the ACM in order to be eligible to compete in a regional
contest. Note however that all Contest Finals contestants are required
to be student members of ACM by February 1, 2001.
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Each team that competes in the
Southwestern European Regional Contest may make one substitution for a
contestant who is unable or unwilling to compete provided that the team
Coach notifies the Contest Secretary as soon as he is
aware of the change, but no later than at team check-in. The resulting
team must be properly constituted.
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The South Western European Regional
Contest organisers are absolutely not responsible for the accommodation
or other expenses of the teams.
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Appropriate insurance (e.g. against
accidents or diseases) is in the responsibility of the team.
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Contest Environment
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Each team will use one single
computer. All teams will have equivalent computing equipment.
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Each team will have access to
three compilers: a Pascal Compiler, a C Compiler and a C++ Compiler. Each
submission may be in either language, without regard to the language used
in previous submissions.
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For each compiler, there will
be a set of manuals available for the contestants. If there are not enough
manuals to serve all teams, a manual desk will be installed. Manuals may
not be removed from the desk. It is possible to provide on-line instead
of printed manuals.
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Each submission must be one self-contained
program. It must not rely on the presence of external data files (except
for the test data input file), nor may it create such files.
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Submissions in Pascal must adhere
to the ISO level 1 standard. No extensions to the language are permitted.
It is the responsibility of the team, not the compiler, to ensure that
the submission meets the required standard.
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Submissions in C must adhere to
the ANSI standard X3.159-1989. The only permitted extension to the language
are chosen functions of the ANSI standard library. It is the responsibility
of the team, not the compiler, to ensure that the submission meets the
required standard.
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Submissions in C++ must adhere
to the language as defined in "The C++ Programming Language, Second Edition"
by Bjarne Stroustrup.
The only permitted extensions
to the language are chosen functions of the ANSI C standard library and
the iostreams library. It is responsibility of the team, not the compiler,
to ensure that the submission meets the required standard.
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Conduct of the Contest
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All team members must attend all
contest activites as specified by the Contest Director. These activities
include the Opening Ceremony and Practice Session (on Saturday) and the
Contest and Award Ceremony (on Sunday). Failure to attend any of the designated
Contest events will result in automatic disqualification and forfeiture
of any prizes and final berths.
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At least six problems will be
posed. As far as possible, problems will avoid dependence on detailed knowledge
of a particular applications area or a particular contest language.
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Problems will be posed in English.
During the contest, all communications with contest officials must be in
English. Contestants may bring dictionaries or electronic pocket translators.
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Contestants may bring resource
materials such as books, manuals and program listings. Contestants may
not bring any machine-readable versions of software or data. Contestants
may not bring their own computers, computer terminals or calculators. Contestants
may not bring any kind of communication device such as radio sets, cellular
phones or pagers.
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Solutions to problems submitted
for judging are called runs. Each run is judged as accepted or rejected,
and the team is notified of the result. Rejected runs will be marked as
either "compile time error" or "run-time error" or "time-limit exceeded"
or "wrong answer" or "presentation error" or "contest rule violation".
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Notification of accepted runs
can be suspended at the appropriate time to keep final results secret.
A general announcement to that effect will be made during the contest.
Notification of rejected runs will continue until the end of the contest.
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A contestant may submit a claim
of ambiguity or error in a problem statement by submitting a clarification
request. If the Judges agree that an ambiguity or an error exists, a clarification
will be issued to all contestants by the Chief Judge.
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Contestants are not to converse
with anyone except members of their team and personnel designated by the
Regional Contest Director (e.g. system support staff). Any conversation
between contestants (whether they are from the same or different universities)
and the Faculty Advisor or the team Coach (if he is not a contestant himself)
is strictly forbidden and concerned as rule violation.
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System support staff may advise
contestants on system-related problems such as explaining system error
messages.
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The contest will be held in a
networked environment. The network may only be used to submit problems
and to produce a listing in ways designated by the Chief Judge and system
support staff. Remote login, ftp, telnet, mail or other networking activities
within the contest environment or with machines outside this environment
are strictly forbidden. Every contestant who discovers a security leak
must report this leak immediately to a system support staff member.
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While the contest is scheduled
to last exactly five hours, the Regional Contest Director has the authority
to lengthen the contest in the event of unforeseen difficulties. Should
the Contest duration be altered, every attempt will be made to notify contestants
in a timely and uniform manner.
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A team may be disqualified by
the Regional Contest Director for any activity that jeopardises the regional
contest such as dislodging extension cords, unauthorised modification of
contest material (soft- or hardware), forbidden network activity, or distractive
behaviour. The disqualification may occur immediately upon detection or
up to 72 hours after the end of the Contest.
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The Southwestern European Regional
Contest Director is solely responsible for ruling on unforeseen situations
and interpreting this rules.
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Scoring of the Contest
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The Regional Contest Judges are
solely responsible for determining the correctness of submitted runs. In
consultation with the judges, the Regional Contest Chief Judge is responsible
for determining the winners of the regional contest. The judging staff
is empowered to adjust for or adjudicate unforeseen events and conditions.
Their decisions are final and may not be appealed.
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Teams are ranked according to
the most problems solved. Teams who solve the same number of problems are
ranked by least total time. The total time is the sum of the time consumed
for each problem solved. The time consumed for a solved problem is the
time elapsed from the beginning of the contest to the submittal of the
accepted run plus 20 minutes for each rejected run. There is no time consumed
for a problem that is not solved.
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The Southwestern European Region
is granted one initial berth in the Contest Finals. The team on the first
rank can advance to the finals. If that team can not or does not want to
participate in the Contest Finals, the next team on the ranking list is
given the berth.
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Should the overall Contest Director
award a second berth in the Contest Finals to the Southwestern European
Region, the best two teams can advance to the finals. They must represent
different educational institutions.
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Appeals
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Only rules violations and misconduct
may be appealed. Only coaches may file an appeal. The decision of judges in accepting or rejecting
submissions are
final - they are not grounds for appeal. No appeal will result in additional
World Finals positions.
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Within one business day of the completion of the
regional contest, a coach may file an appeal to the Regional Contest Director
(RCD). Within one business day, the RCD will rule upon the appeal,
notifying the coach and the Director of Regional
Contests (DRC) of the decision.
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Within one business day, the coach may appeal the
decision to the DRC. Within 5 business days, the DRC will investigate and make a recommendation to the
ICPC Steering
Committee (SC) who may, by a 2/3 vote, uphold the appeal. Within one
business day, the coach and the RCD will be notified of the decision.
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