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 . You can also read https://domjudge.bath.ac.uk/docs for 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