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20.09.2012

Local Contest 2012

The ETH ACM ICPC Local Contest will take place on October 27, 2012. The competition lasts for 5 hours and consists of 5 to 10 problems. The allowed programming languages are the same as in official ICPC competitions — C, C++ and Java. Two teams are formed from the best six participants who are enrolled at ETH and meet the Regional Contest eligibility requirements. Those teams will represent ETH at the Regional Contest in Valencia. As in last year, we are glad to hold the contest together with EPFL in Lausanne (PolyProg).

Schedule of Local contest: 27 October 2012

9:00 Meeting in the VIS Bureau (CAB E 31), breakfast, late registration.
9:45 Briefing, last questions, seat allocation.
10:00 Contest starts (CAB H56/H57).
15:00 Contest ends.
15:15 Announcement of results.
15:30 Apéro.

Please register for the contest here: http://hc2.ch/swerc/.

Apart from the Local Contest we will host a short welcoming contest with a bit easier tasks on October 13 and another full-length training contest on October 20. Both will take place in CAB H56/H57 (the computer rooms).

Schedule of Welcome contest: 13 October 2012

13:00 Meeting in the VIS Bureau (CAB E 31), late registration, introduction to the judging system.
13:45 Briefing, last questions, seat allocation.
14:00 Contest starts (CAB H56/H57).
16:30 Contest ends.
16:45 Announcement of results.

Schedule of Training contest: 20 October 2012

9:00 Meeting in the VIS Bureau (CAB E 31), small breakfast, late registration.
9:45 Briefing, last questions, seat allocation.
10:00 Contest starts (CAB H56/H57).
15:00 Contest ends.
15:15 Announcement of results.

Please register for the welcome and training contests here: http://hc2.ch/swerc/. You may also just show up and register a few minutes before the start of the contest.

Rules: The local contest is a “closed-book” competition. No materials are allowed, i.e., no books, cheat cheats, Internet etc. The language references for C, C++ and Java will be available. For the detailed rules, consult ”Contest Rules”. You may also wish to take a look at the team manual for the judging system.

Lastly, note that you need access to the CAB Building. All CS students should be able to access the building with their Legis. If you are not a CS student and cannot access the building, please contact us at acm_at_vis_dot_ethz_dot_ch, so that we can open the door.

16.10.2011

Training Week 2011

We are very excited that we can hold another training week with the Russian Wold Finals Champions. Training week beginning already tomorrow, 17. – 22. October. This opportunity is open to all students! This training is guided by the Russian World Finals Winner and will start each day around 09.00. The program consists mainly of a contest (~5h) and a subsequent discussion, as it was the last times.
This time, also a very strong team from Nuremberg will participate.

Please bring your laptop, as you will code on your machines and we will not be in the student computer rooms.

Here are the rooms:
Mo. – Di., LWF E 15
Mi. – Fr., ML H 43

In case you don’t know where there rooms are, consult http://www.rauminfo.ethz.ch/RauminfoPre.do?region=Z&areal=Z&gebaeude=LFW&geschoss=E&raumNr=15

16.10.2011

Local Contest, Results

The first Local Contest held together with EPFL (PolyProg) is over and was very successful. Congratulations to all the winners! We are really happy that so many participated. Many problems got solved. Thanks to our sponsor Quatico Solutions AG we could again enjoy a superb apero after the contest.

Some impressions of the Local Contest and the final ranking after 5 hours:

12.10.2011

Local Contest

The ETH ACM Local Contest will take place this Saturday, October 15, 2011. We are glad to hold the contest together with EPFL in Lausanne (PolyProg).

The competition takes 5 hours and consists of 5 to 10 problems. The allowed programming languages are the official ICPC programming languages C, C++ and Java. From the best 6 participants enrolled at ETH and that meet the Regional Contest eligibility requirements, two teams are formed that will represent ETH at the Regional Contest in Madrid.

If you participate in the Local Contest, you can win several prizes and even a trip to Madrid if you are among the 6 best contestants.

Schedule Local Contest, October 15

09:00 Breakfast, Late registration
09:45 Briefing, last questions, seat allocation
10:00 Start of the contest
15:00 End of the contest
15:15 Announcement of the rankings
15:30 Apero

Please be on time. We will not postpone the start of the contest. If you want to participate in the contest but have not yet participated in the trainings, please send an e-mail to acm {at} vis {dot} ethz {dot} ch, so that we can already register you in the system.

Rules: This is a “closed-book” contest. No material is allowed, i.e. no books, cheat cheats, Internet etc. The language references for C, C++ and Java will be available. For the detailed rules, consult ”Contest Rules”.

Browse through the ”Training” and ”About the ICPC” for further information.

We are glad to announce, that Quatico Solutions AG sponsors again the superb apero after the Local Contest.

There is currently construction work done at the CAB building. Although we were told that they will not work this Saturday, it is still possible that they do so. Please bring earplugs if you do not want to get distracted by possible work noise!

12.10.2011

Training Contest, Results

Again, a lot of students showed up for the second training. The tasks were a bit harder but also more interesting 😉

The final ranking:

Congratulations to Jan Hazla!

04.10.2011

Next Training

The next full 5h training contest will take place this Saturday, October 8, 2011. Meeting point is the VIS bureau (CAB E31) @ 09:30. The contest will start at 10:00am and last for 5 hours.

04.10.2011

Welcome Contest

The first training together with the EPFL team went well and many problems got solved. The final rankings:

Congratulations to Vladimir Serbinenko!

25.09.2011

Training and Local Contest 2011

The VIS and the D-INFK offer this fall semester again a training programme that is open to all students. The training consists again mainly of contests. We are glad to coordinate our efforts with the EPFL in Lausanne (PolyProg). So all trainings as well as the Local Contest (the selection contest) will be hold together online. The goal of these trainings is to improve the skills of the participating students, win the SWERC 2011 and participate in the World Finals for the second time, and to recruit new participating students.

If you want to participate in the trainings or in the upcoming Local Contest (Saturday October 15, 2011), please register at the VIS ACM Mailingliste, so that you will receive all updates and information and send an email to acm {at} vis {dot} ethz {dot} ch so that we approximately know how many students will participate. You can of course participate in the Local Contest without joining the trainings.

You can find all details of the Local Contest on the “About the ICPC” page.

The first training contest (Welcome Contest) with an introduction will be this Saturday afternoon, October 1, 2011. Meeting point is the VIS Bureau (CAB E 31) at 1:15pm. These training contests are also meant to be a starting point for students participating for the first time. An introduction to the contest and the system is given for the newbies. We also prepared some easier tasks for this first training and the contest is only three hours instead of five.

Please write us (acm {at} vis {dot} ethz {dot} ch) if you have problems accessing the CAB building on a Saturday.

The trainings are open to all ETH students that are interested in algorithmic (competitive) programming. Browse through “About the ICPC” and “Training” for more details.

25.09.2011

Achievement

Our first team consisting of Rajko Nenadov, Vladimir Serbinenko and Stephan Kollmann won the SWERC 2010. A complete list of the final standings is available at http://pc.fdi.ucm.es/swerc/swerc10/results.php.

Also our second team achieved a very good result and took the 7th place.

This is the first time that a team from ETH won the SWERC and could participate in the World Finals 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Congratulations!

The final standings of the ACM ICPC World Finals 2011 are available at http://cm.baylor.edu/

Recent article about the ACM ICPC in the “Visionen”

21.06.2006

Willkommen im offiziellen VIS-ICPC06-Blog!

Ich erkläre dieses Blog für eröffnet! Hier werden alle Informationen zum diesjährigen ACM ICPC Contest gesammelt. Informationen zum Local Contest an der ETH am 29. Juli 2006 werde ich demnächst online stellen.

Hinweis: Dies ist ein Experiment. Ist der VIS bereit für die Zukunft? Ist Web 2.0 wirklich so toll wie alle sagen? Wir werden es sehen. 🙂 Übrigens, Kommentare zu den Artikeln sind ausdrücklich erwünscht! Falls etwas nicht klappt, kann man uns auch schreiben!