Hi all,
Good news everyone, we are now covering all 5 countries in
the UK & Ireland. and Registration is open. Some teams
have begun to register, and now that the new ICPC website is
looking a bit more stable (still with some problems), there
are some TODOs for ACCEPTing teams.
1) ACCEPT/REJECT teams
Right now, the main task is to manage your teams at your
site. The new website has finally allowed me to add you as
managers of your site. So you should now be able to log in to
icpc.baylor.edu
- and on your desktop, you should be able to see your site in
your 'dashboard', and if you go there, and view teams. you
will see a list of teams that have registered.
It is up to you to ACCEPT teams (green tick), based on your
limits/rules. Dont accept teams from other universities if you
dont want to. You should 'prefer' to accept eligable teams, by
the eligability rules - although this feature in the new
website is not working correctly yet. You may know for your
own students. Here is a decision tree
Also - you may wish to 'prefer' complete teams of 3
people.
It is acceptable to have ineligable teams, and teams with
less than 3 - but you may wish to prefer full eligable teams
if you have limits.
You may reject teams with the red cross - to status
CANCELLED
You may leave teams as PENDING with the blue question mark
2) Preparing for 20th Oct
Things you should do are
a) book a room 9am-6pm
b) consider HOW you will let external teams use your
computers, if you plan to do this
c) book food before/after the contest if you plan to do
this (optional)
d) arrange prizes for your site, if you plan to do this
(optional)
e) purchase balloons, if you plan to do this (optional)
- many sites give out balloons for each problem solved.
we hang these from the ceiling in nottingham. Some sites
colourcode this per problem (we DONT bother to do this in
nottingham). Its a kind of tradition.
There is no need to plan how to block the internet - we
will trust you to trust/check your teams for not cheating with
internet search. They will need internet to submit solutions
to the server.
3) On the day
I will send more information nearer the time, but reminder
of the process
a) we will send the 'responsible site host' a PDF of the
problems to print and keep secret until the start of the
contest - to give out at 11am start
b) the site manager (may be different to responsible site
host) present on the day will have to communicate with us, on
platform TBC (last year google hangouts)
c) you can optionally have a webcam broadcast on our live
broadcast from your site. This is a bit fun, we manage the
broadcast for doing this.
c) you should get teams sat and ready, logged in, at
10:30am, ready for a broadcast presentation from us.
d) contest will be 11-4pm (with no breaks). you may wish to
allow the students to 'print their code' if they want.
e) after the contest, we will have some mechanism for
revealing the winners and explaining the problems, TBC.
best
Max