The 2010-2011 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 2010-2011 ACM Southeastern European Regional Programming Contest.
There were 57 programming teams registered, from
In the Southeastern European Region
52 teams were accepted from 28 universities and 6 countries.
Country Teams
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Bulgaria 5
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Macedonia 2
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Moldova 2
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Romania 16
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Ukraine
12
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Serbia 5
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Turkey 10
Total Teams 52
Unfortunately one team (Moscow State
University
This year we had the great pleasure
of welcoming to attend the Contest: Prof. Dr. Božena Mannová, Director of European Contests.
The judge team has proposed 10
problems to be solved in the contest during the 5 hours.
The first
place was awarded to:
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Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University |
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Team name: TTL300 |
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with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 909
points.
The second place was awarded to:
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Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
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Team name: Exploitless |
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with 9 problems solved and a penalty of 974 points.
The third place was awarded to:
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Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
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Team name: Deprecated |
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with 9
problems solved and a
penalty of 1015
points.
The programming languages of the Regional
Contest are Java and C/C++, while the available IDEs are 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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4 |
9 |
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3 3 |
8 7 |
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5 |
6 |
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6 |
5 |
|
|
11 |
4 |
|
|
8 |
3 |
|
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7 |
2 |
|
|
3 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
0 |
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Problem |
No. of Teams that Solved It |
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A |
39 |
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B |
17 |
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C |
5 |
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D |
13 |
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E |
45 |
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F |
12 |
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G |
11 |
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H |
34 |
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I |
0 |
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J |
50 |
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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 51 teams totalled a number of
214 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 Romania.
Also the judges and contest
management team received presents from IBM.
Contest
Schedule
12:00 - 20:00 Teams arrival and Hotel Check-in
Friday October 15th -
Contestants Meeting
08:00 - 12:00 Teams Registration
14:00 - 14:30 Opening Ceremony, AN 017 (A-017) - Rectorate Building
· Nicolae Ţăpuş, Contest Director
· Božena Mannová, Director of European Contests
· Ecaterina Andronescu Rector of
· Gheorghe Marian, ViceRector of
· Bogdan Dragos Constantinescu, Country
Systems&Technology Group Manager, IBM Romania
· Lorina Negreanu, Chief Judge
· Cristian Giumale, Judge
14:30 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 16:00 Briefing with faculty advisors, students and volunteers
· Reviewing of the rules
· Introduction to the practice
session
16:00 - 18:00 Practice Session
Saturday October 16th – The
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 17th 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,
Cisco Systems Romania, Microsoft Romania, Freescale Semiconductor, JVM
Tehnologic and Oracle 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 15 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
- Gheorghe Marian ViceRector of POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest
- Bogdan Dragos Constantinescu Country Systems&Technology Group Manager, IBM Romania
- Lorina Negreanu Chief Judge
- Cristian Giumale Judge
The members of the judging team were:
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Lorina Negreanu Cristian Giumale Krassimir Manev Mykhaylo Medvedyev Volodymyr Mesyura Emil Kelevedjiev Dmytro Korduban Pinar Senkul Ivana Cingovska Mugurel Ionut Andreica |
Politehnica University of
Bucharest Politehnica University of Bucharest Sofia University Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University Vinnytsia National Technical University American University in Bulgaria National Technical University of Ukraine KPI Middle East Technical University University Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje Politehnica University of
Bucharest |
Chief Judge Judge Judge Judge Judge Judge Judge Judge 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 Romania, Cisco
Systems Romania, Microsoft Romania, Freescale Semiconductor, JVM Tehnologic and
Oracle for their generous support for the ACM Southeastern European Regional
Programming Contest.
Our
thanks also go to Mr. Bogdan Dragos Constantinescu, Ms. Sofia Zainea and 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 chief
organizer.
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 to address special thanks to
Marsha Poucher for continuous help, to Prof. Dr. Božena
Mannová, Director of European
Contests, who attended SEERC this year and to Debbie Kilbride and John Clevenger.
After the Contest, a meeting was
held, reuniting representatives from all the participant countries and Prof. Božena Mannová as Director of European Contests, with an
agenda to discuss the future structure of SEERC. It has been decided that, next
year, SubRegional Contests will be organized to select the teams participating
at SEERC. Also it was shown that SEERC can be organized on a single site or on multiple
sites across the region.
Prof. Nicolae Tapus
Regional Contest Director
Rank of the ACM Southeastern
|
Rank |
Team |
University |
Solved |
Time |
|
1 |
TTL300 |
Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University |
9 |
909 |
|
2 |
Exploitless |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
9 |
974 |
|
3 |
Deprecated |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
9 |
1015 |
|
4 |
Akai |
Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University |
9 |
1576 |
|
5 |
BZFlags |
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University |
8 |
883 |
|
6 |
LNU United |
Lviv National University |
8 |
951 |
|
7 |
DonNU_United |
Donetsk National University |
8 |
959 |
|
8 |
Infoarena Coders |
Bucharest University |
7 |
864 |
|
9 |
VNTU_wRabbits |
Vinnytsia National Technical University |
7 |
1105 |
|
10 |
1024 |
National Technical University of Ukraine Kiev Polytechnic
Institute |
7 |
1305 |
|
11 |
LSBG |
Sofia University |
6 |
475 |
|
12 |
upb bums |
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest |
6 |
561 |
|
13 |
UPB Noname |
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest |
6 |
709 |
|
14 |
Bilkent |
Bilkent University |
6 |
866 |
|
15 |
The Ninjas |
University of Nis - Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics |
6 |
909 |
|
16 |
ICT-MK |
University Sts Cyril and Methodius - Skopje - Macedonia |
5 |
349 |
|
17 |
Raf 1 |
Faculty of Computer Science, Belgrade |
5 |
380 |
|
18 |
FII Saints |
A.I.Cuza University |
5 |
444 |
|
19 |
qwerty |
Babes-Bolyai University |
5 |
469 |
|
20 |
Raf 2 |
Faculty of Computer Science, Belgrade |
5 |
526 |
|
21 |
METU Sharks |
Middle East Technical University |
5 |
774 |
|
22 |
SSU Team 1 |
Sumy State University |
4 |
206 |
|
23 |
Terente Team |
Babes-Bolyai University |
4 |
271 |
|
24 |
ZBrains |
Bucharest University |
4 |
286 |
|
25 |
MDCS Belgrade |
University of Belgrade |
4 |
303 |
|
26 |
bogazicimerkez |
Bogazici University |
4 |
313 |
|
27 |
Default Team |
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics |
4 |
344 |
|
28 |
TUCN-Eagles |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |
4 |
390 |
|
29 |
UPT 2 |
POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara |
4 |
439 |
|
30 |
DVZ |
Sofia University |
4 |
464 |
|
31 |
ACM Rocks |
POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest |
4 |
508 |
|
32 |
AESM01 |
Academy of Economic Studies of Republic of Moldova |
4 |
782 |
|
33 |
Two And A Half Men |
Bucharest University |
3 |
101 |
|
34 |
LogicError |
TOBB University of Economics and Technology |
3 |
148 |
|
35 |
Code Busters |
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |
3 |
220 |
|
36 |
boun |
Bogazici University |
3 |
347 |
|
37 |
UR10 |
University of Ruse |
3 |
360 |
|
38 |
ICT-FEIT |
University Sts Cyril and Methodius - Skopje - Macedonia |
3 |
534 |
|
39 |
METURings |
Middle East Technical University |
3 |
569 |
|
40 |
USMTeam |
State University of Moldova |
3 |
809 |
|
41 |
Eccentric |
Technical University of Iasi |
2 |
51 |
|
42 |
UVT #11 Armadillos |
West University of Timisoara, Romania |
2 |
90 |
|
43 |
METU Codebros |
Middle East Technical University |
2 |
133 |
|
44 |
fatih |
Fatih University |
2 |
186 |
|
45 |
Core3Trio |
Sapientia University |
2 |
216 |
|
46 |
ACE Team5 |
UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA |
2 |
243 |
|
47 |
AUBG |
American University in Bulgaria |
2 |
312 |
|
48 |
Idea Factory |
Anadolu University |
1 |
59 |
|
49 |
1ncredul0us|3ug3 |
Megatrend University |
1 |
66 |
|
50 |
TRAKIA_UNITED |
Shumen University |
1 |
142 |
|
51 |
Anatolian Developers |
Anadolu University |
0 |
0 |