The 2009-2010 ACM
International Collegiate Programming Contest
Sponsored by IBM
The Department of Computer Science
and Engineering from the POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest had the honor to
organize the 2009-2010 ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
There were 47 programming teams registered, from
In the Southeastern European Region 45
teams were accepted from 28 universities and 6 countries.
Country Teams
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Bulgaria 5
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Macedonia 5
•
Romania 19
•
Ukraine
9
•
Serbia 4
•
Turkey 3
Total Teams 45
Unfortunately one team (
The judge team has proposed 11
problems to be solved in the contest during the 5 hours.
The first
place was awarded to:
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Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
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Team name: Pointless |
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with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 1015 points.
The second place was awarded to:
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Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
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Team name: DDragons |
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with 7 problems solved and a penalty of 1085 points.
The third place was awarded to:
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National technical university "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" |
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Team name: IF |
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with 7
problems solved and a
penalty of 1196 points.
The programming languages of the Regional
Contest are Java and C/C++, while the available IDEs will be Visual C++
Express, Java Creator LE and Eclipse.
Some statistics:
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No. of Teams |
No. of Problems Solved |
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1 |
9 |
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3 |
7 |
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3 |
6 |
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6 |
5 |
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|
6 |
4 |
|
|
4 |
3 |
|
|
7 |
2 |
|
|
8 |
1 |
|
|
7 |
0 |
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Problem |
No. of Teams that Solved It |
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A |
6 |
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B |
28 |
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C |
25 |
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D |
31 |
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|
E |
1 |
|
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F |
22 |
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|
G |
15 |
|
|
H |
1 |
|
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I |
0 |
|
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J |
0 |
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K |
7 |
|
|
|
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The set of problems was considered
to be difficult enough according to the contest’s level.
The computers the contest was run on
were IBM-PCs Pentium 4, interconnected through a network and running Linux and
Windows XP.
The site of the contest was the
“Rectorat” building of the
The evaluation of the results and
the scoring were based on the Personal Computer Programming Contest program (PC2),
developed at the Computer Science Department, Sacramento, California State
University. The use of PC2 allowed a smooth run of the contest and
facilitated the activity of judges and runners.
The 44 teams totalled a number of 184
students (including coaches , reserves and guests). There were more than 20
staff members and more than 64 volunteers who contributed to the organization
and run of the contest.
The first three teams received
prizes sent by IBM Canada and IBM Romania.
Also the judges and contest
management team received presents from IBM.
Contest
Schedule
Thursday October 15th - Arrival
and Hotel Check-in
12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrive
and Hotel Check-in
Friday
October 16th - Contestants Meeting
08:00 - 12:00 Teams arrival
and Registration
14:00 - 14:30 Opening
Ceremony, AN 010 - Building „Rectorat”
•
Nicolae Ţăpuş, Contest Director
•
Ecaterina Andronescu Rector of POLITEHNICA
University of Bucharest
•
Theodor Borangiu University relations ,
IBM Romania
•
Lorina Negreanu, Chief
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Cristian Giumale,
14:30 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Briefing with
faculty advisors, students and volunteers
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Reviewing of the rules
•
Introduction to the practice session
16:00 - 19:00 Practice Session
Saturday October 18th – The Big Day! Contest
09:00 - 09:30 Check-in at
contest site
09:15 - 09:30 Briefing with
faculty advisors
10:00 - 15:00 CONTEST
19:00
Award Ceremony, Banquet
Sunday October 19th Sightseeing day
08:00
Sightseeing Tour
The contest budget was raised using
funds from IBM and local contributors.
Ministry of National Education
through POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest helped us with the accommodation
for Romanian Students.
The companies: S&T Romania, REL
Computer, CISCO Romania, Microsoft Romania, UTI Systems, JVM Tehnologic,
Freescale Semiconductor, PTC Romania, Cronus and Coca Cola contributed with
financial support.
Participation in the contest was free of charge.
Also, the buffets, the banquet, and
the tour of
Upon registration, each participant
received a contest folder containing: a contest badge, a set of the contest
rules, a contestant's guide for PC2, a timetable and a T-Shirt. During the Award Ceremony, Certificates of
Participation or Recognition was given to all participants and volunteers.
Everybody was very excited upon receiving the certificates, especially the
volunteers, thus proving that the ACM idea of offering certificates was highly
appreciated.
Before the Opening Ceremony, IBM
Romania organized a press conference attended by more than 25 journalists from
the Romanian mass-media. Many press releases were issued, both before and after
the contest. Several newspapers published announcements or presentations of the
event. National Romanian Broadcast companies transmitted information about the
contest in their main news program.
The members of the Steering Committee
were:
·
Nicolae
Ţăpuş, Contest Director
·
Ecaterina
Andronescu Rector of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest
·
Theodor
Boragiu, University Relations IBM Romania
·
Mihai
Tudor, Country General Manager, IBM Romania
·
Lorina
Negreanu, Chief Judge
The members of the judging team were:
|
Lorina
Negreanu |
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Chief
Judge |
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Cristian Giumale |
|
Judge |
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Krassimir Manev |
|
Judge |
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Mykhaylo Medvedyev |
|
Judge |
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Volodymyr Mesyura |
|
Judge |
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Mile Jovanov |
Institute of Informatics PMF Skopje - Macedonia |
Judge |
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Vasyl Biletsky |
Lviv National University |
Judge |
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Pinar Senkul |
Middle East Technical University |
Judge |
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Mugurel Ionut Andreica |
Politehnica University of Bucharest |
Judge |
We would also like to express our
thanks to ACM and to IBM Corporation, to the to the Romanian Chapter of ACM, to
POLITEHNICA University, and to the local contributors: S&T Software, REL
Computer, CISCO Romania, Microsoft Romania, UTI Systems, JVM Tehnologic, Freescale Semiconductor, PTC, Cronus and Coca Cola for
their generous support for the ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming
Contest.
Our
thanks also go to Mr. Mihai Tudor and Ms. Sofia Zainea, Mr. Theodor Borangiu
from IBM Romania for
their continuous support to the developing of the contest in excellent
conditions.
We want
to thank to the network management team lead by Razvan Rughinis and Bogdan Sass and contest
Software support lead by Razvan
Deaconescu from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of
Politehnica University.
Special
thanks to Alexandru Olteanu, Andreea
Marin and Daniela Costache, chief organizers.
Last, but
not least, we would like to thank all the volunteers who helped run and
organize the contest.
Without
the help of all these people and organizations, it would have been impossible
to make this event happen.
I want address special thanks to
Marsha Poucher for continuous help and to Debbie Kilbride and John Clevenger.
As proposal, the next edition of the ACM Southeastern Europe
Regional Programming Contest will be held at the Computer Science and
Engineering Dept., “POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest, ROMANIA.
The decision of site for
Southeastern
Prof. Nicolae Tapus
Regional Contest Director
Rank of the ACM Southeastern
|
Rank |
University |
Name |
Solved |
Time |
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1 |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
Pointless |
9 |
1015 |
|
2 |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
DDragons |
7 |
1085 |
|
3 |
National technical university "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" |
IF |
7 |
1196 |
|
4 |
Donetsk National University |
DonNU United |
7 |
1526 |
|
5 |
National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI" |
Precise |
6 |
1018 |
|
6 |
Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University |
TNU_2 |
6 |
1043 |
|
7 |
Lviv National University |
LNU United |
6 |
1097 |
|
8 |
Bucharest University |
IACoders |
5 |
578 |
|
9 |
Babes-Bolyai University |
Qwerty |
5 |
706 |
|
10 |
Vinnytsia National Technical University |
VNTU-sns |
5 |
712 |
|
11 |
Sofia University |
LSBG |
5 |
937 |
|
12 |
A.I.Cuza University |
FII Champions |
5 |
1040 |
|
13 |
University Ss. Cyril and Methodius |
MKD |
5 |
1503 |
|
14 |
A.I.Cuza University |
TVA inclus |
4 |
402 |
|
15 |
Sofia University |
Rampage |
4 |
569 |
|
16 |
Babes-Bolyai University |
AncientK |
4 |
619 |
|
17 |
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest |
UPB ACMish |
4 |
741 |
|
18 |
Faculty of Computer Science, Belgrade |
Royal Air Force |
4 |
885 |
|
19 |
Sofia University |
The Jack |
4 |
1006 |
|
20 |
Bucharest University |
We Want Balloons |
3 |
282 |
|
21 |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |
UTCN2 |
3 |
458 |
|
22 |
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest |
upb_bums |
3 |
573 |
|
23 |
Middle East Technical University |
TR1 |
3 |
577 |
|
24 |
Lviv Polytechnic National University |
mMasters |
2 |
285 |
|
25 |
Faculty of Science University of Novi Sad |
bubble~1 |
2 |
357 |
|
26 |
Bucharest University |
Unibuc Red Devils |
2 |
361 |
|
27 |
POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara |
UPTim2 |
2 |
385 |
|
28 |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |
UTCN1 |
2 |
484 |
|
29 |
Faculty of Computer Science, Belgrade |
Royal Air Fork |
2 |
491 |
|
30 |
University of Rousse |
UR09 |
2 |
700 |
|
31 |
University Ss. Cyril and Methodius |
FEIT |
1 |
98 |
|
32 |
Fatih University |
Fatih2 |
1 |
129 |
|
33 |
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest |
UPB Gravity |
1 |
201 |
|
34 |
POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara |
UPTim1 |
1 |
206 |
|
35 |
Sapientia University |
The Dwarfs |
1 |
209 |
|
36 |
Universitatea Stefan cel Mare Suceava |
USV |
1 |
216 |
|
37 |
Middle East Technical University |
TR 2 |
1 |
242 |
|
38 |
Institute of Informatics PMF Skopje - Macedonia |
II-PMF-01 |
1 |
255 |
|
39 |
Institute of Informatics PMF Skopje - Macedonia |
Macedonian Sun |
0 |
0 |
|
39 |
Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen |
SHU |
0 |
0 |
|
39 |
Sapientia University |
The Giants |
0 |
0 |
|
39 |
University Ss. Cyril and Methodius |
UKIM |
0 |
0 |
|
39 |
Petru Maior University |
U-Mures |
0 |
0 |
|
39 |
West University of Timisoara, Romania |
WUT Team 1 |
0 |
0 |
|
39 |
University of Nis - Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics |
Falcons Nis |
0 |
0 |