- 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.
- 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.
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 -
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.
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.
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