The 2022-2023 ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest

Sponsored by the ICPC Foundation

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE REGION

Bucharest - Vinnytsia, December 9th-10th, 2022

 

 

The ICPC South-Eastern European Regional Programming Contest has been organized online by:

 

This year’s contest was very special for Romania because we celebrated the 29th edition of ICPC SEERC hosted at Politehnica University of Bucharest.

Prof.dr. Nicolae Tapus conducted this important Regional Contest, SEERC, since 1994

 

 In the South-Eastern European Region, the best students from 66 Universities, from 8 countries (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia and Turkey) were organized in 128 teams:

 

 

Bucharest

Vinnitsia

Teams

Institutions

BGR

4

 

4

2

CYP

3

 

3

1

MKD

1

 

1

1

MDA

1

 

1

1

ROU

26

 

26

9

UKR

 

76

76

43

SRB

7

 

7

4

TUR

10

 

10

5

 

 

This year where a lot of selection contests at level of University, Sub-regional, National:

 

 

The judge team has proposed 14 problems to be solved in the contest during the 5 hours.

 

Congratulations to the SEERC 2022-2023 Winners!



University of Novi Sad, Team Infinity:
Viktor Lučić, Nikola Pešić, Tadija Šebez, Coach Marko Savić

 

 

The programming languages of the Regional Contest are Java and C/C++, Python, while the available development software was: gcc, g++, Sun Java SDK, Emacs, Vim, manpages-dev, Java, Python Documentation, Eclipse, jEdit, CodeBlocks, GNU Make, Ant, Geany, Mozilla Firefox browser.

 

 

Some statistics:

 

The problem set was, very difficult but we believe that the results were very good.

 

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

87

9

6

0

38

46

35

72

15

5

2

0

3

110

 

 

 

This year, the winners solved 11 problems.

 

No. of problems

No. teams solved

 11

1

10

2

9

2

8

4

7

8

6

10

5

12

4

15

3

20

2

14

1

23

0

17

 

The set of problems was difficult enough according to the contest’s level.

The contest was strictly supervised by a computer program eolymp. Due to the exceptional circumstances of wartime in Ukraine, the contest run on two servers, one for Vinnytsia site and one for Bucharest site, to be able to decouple when exceptional circumstances occur in Ukraine.

 

The 128 teams numbered over 400 students, coaches, reserves and guests. There were more than 20 staff members and more than 50 volunteers who contributed to the organization and run of the contest. 


Contest Schedule:

 

2022-2023 SEERC: Schedule

The contest will take place on 9-10 December online, with several common sessions on the two sites:

·       Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

·       Vinnytsia National Technical University, Ukraine

*All times below are on Bucharest/Kyiv time

Friday, December 9th 

10:00 – 12:00: Virtual Check-in

Enter on the meeting link and speak with the host to check the connection works ok

Zoom link
(Meeting ID 872 7892 6203
Passcode 393876)

14:00 – 14:40: Opening Ceremony

·       Nicolae Țăpuș, Contest Director

·       Sergey Petrov, Deputy Director of the Vinnytsia site

·       Božena Mannová, European Contests Director

·       Politehnica University Officials

·       Vinnytsia University Officials

14:40 – 15:10: Sponsor Tech Talks

·       JetBrains

·       Huawei

15:15 – 15:30: Introduction to the practice session

·       Lorina Negreanu, Anton Trygub, Judge team

·       Răzvan Deaconescu, Sergey Petrov, Software team

15:30 – 17:00: Practice session

17:30 onwards: Social Time Online

 

Saturday, December 10th  

9:30 – 9:45:       Last minute information

Zoom link
(Meeting ID 872 7892 6203
Passcode 393876)

10:00 – 15:00: The Contest

Communication between contestants and judges will be done through the online judge

17:00 – 17:30: Awards and Closing Ceremony

·       Contest review - Nicolae Țăpuș

·       Contest review - Sergey Petrov

Contest results - Nicolae Țăpuș

Zoom link
(Meeting ID 872 7892 6203
Passcode 393876)

1) Passwords for the online judge will be sent via email to the contestants

 

The contest budget was raised using funds from ICPC Foundation, JetBrains, Huawei. In Vinnytsia site the main financial support was given by ICPC Foundation, and additional support was given by local partners of the Contest.

 

Participation in the contest was free of charge.

 

The members of the Steering Committee were:

 

The members of the judging team were: