-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ukiepc] UKIEPC Info for Tomorrow Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 15:06:57 +0100 From: UKIE PC ukiepc@gmail.com Reply-To: for UKIEPC Site Organisers, current & potential ukiepc-organisers@cs.nott.ac.uk To: ukiepc-organisers@cs.nott.ac.uk ukiepc-organisers@Cs.Nott.AC.UK
Hi all
1) Late / Spare teams - if you get a surprise team arriving - the easiest process is to give them the username / password for one of the spare teams. Sometime later during or after the contest you can then add these students into the teams on the ICPC website, but you dont need to do this before the contest before. If you run out of username/passwords, this is more of a problem - you should communicate with us quickly in slack.
2) Live broadcast - tomorrow morning, we will share with you a URL for the live youtube broadcast. you should join this before 10:30am. The introduction will be broadcast on this at ~10:40am. - as a backup, you can download the introduction video and play it locally, if needed. - http://bit.ly/UKIEPC2018intro
3) Webcams - tomorrow morning, I will send you information about how to join our google live broadcast, via google hangouts on air, with a webcam, such that we can share a view of your site from time to time over the live broadcast. This is optional, and we can easily set this up while we slowly watch teams compete for 5 hours. It *should* be easy. - join the #livebroadcast channel in slack.
4) Usernames / Passwords - the usernames / passwords sent out earlier today allow the teams to login to the judging server on http://domjudge.bath.ac.uk%C2%A0- you should give the correct one to each team. If you find that your spare teams dont have one, please communicate with us on slack.
5) Slack - we now have a range of useful threads on slack - #balloons for anyone doing balloons, feel free to leave that channel if not - #announcements - for announcements from the Jury - #askjurysomething - to ask the jury something (but you shouldnt be asking us questions on behalf of students. they should use the Clarifications part of the system) - #ineligable - spelt wrong - but for you to tell us about ineligible teams - #livebroadcast - to discuss how to get involved in that
6) End of contest - as a reminder, the scoreboard freezes for the final hour, and we then plan to 'reveal the final rankings' in the traditional ACM ICPC style, hopefully on the live broadcast, if its all going smoothly. - we will then hopefully be broadcasting information about how the problems could have been solved. This too might be a video you can download and play, and ultimately, we'll provide this resource online after the contest for students to look at. - things should 'all be wrapped up' by ~5pm - hopefully you have booked rooms until ~6pm anyway.
Finally, below is the email I am about to send to students, so you know what they know. Any other questions, please ask in slack.
best Max
======== Email sent to contestants today ======
Hi all,
Tomorrow is the UKIEPC 2018! Exciting.
1) You have probably been told to arrive prior to 10:30am by your local organising site. This is because you need to be settled at a computer at about this time, and be in place ready for the broadcast of the contest introduction at ~10:40am (expected). This gives us then time to sort out any team-based problems across the UK & Ireland, before kicking off as planned (hopefully) at 11am.
2) The contest is 11am-4pm, and doesnt break for lunch etc. So be prepped for to consume food/drink in an acceptable manner, as per the rules at your local site.
3) Reminder on some key details (that'll be given tomorrow too). a) Only 1 computer per team, and no internet searching. Also no other digital devices like phones, ipads. Obey the rules of your local site for this, which may be put phones in your bag, or leave them somewhere, etc. b) You can bring printed material - We largely obey the requirements here - https://icpc.baylor.edu/regionals/rules c) The scoreboard will freeze for the final hour, and the winner, therefore will be revealed on the live youtube broadcast after the contest (all going well). d) if your solution times out, or hits memory limits, its because theres a problem with your algorithm, not that the server doesnt have enough processing power (for example).
4) Asking Questions - your local organisers are not organising the problems and judging systems. You can ask them questions about where are the toilets etc. - To ask questions of us, you should use the Clarifications interface on the judging server.
5) The contest will use DomJudge - if you want to explore what that is like, you can do so on https://www.domjudge.org/demo%C2%A0. You can also read https://domjudge.bath.ac.uk/docs%C2%A0for information about the languages and help files that will be available during the contest.
6) The finalised available-language information for the contest is C++14, C11, Java 8, Python 2 (PyPy), Python 3.
7) After the contest, results and information about the correct solutions to problems should be broadcast, in some form, over the youtube live broadcast, or locally at your site. In terms of time, you should plan to be around the contest up until 5pm potentially, if you want to see all those things.
Apart from this, good luck. And may the odds be ever in your favour.
best Max
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