HI all,
Thanks to everyone that has joined slack so far - this is
proving a good fast mode of communication about issues leading
up to the contest. Especially with the registration website
going down, and extension to registration etc.
Here's key updates for the next couple of days.
0) join the slack channel if you havent already (see
previous email)
1) Deadline 12noon Friday - ACCEPT/CANCEL teams.
- the tech team need to import teams to the contest
server friday afternoon
- Please do final checks friday morning (you can prob do
95% today)
- and create 1-3 spare teams, if you havent already,
using the big Add Team button when viewing your site. You
should put yourself as the coach of these.
2) Contact contestants for your site
- you should send details to all of the people registered
at your site, about where exactly they should turn up, and
when (before 10:30am). And what the process will be (as per
previous email). This is ideally for the specifics of your
location, as I will be sending a global email to registered
participants on friday morning.
- theres a tab on your site page for 'Email', you can
turn on the Team Members toggle, and download.
- I would recommend you strongly encourage first-timers
to try a few problems on
http://open.kattis.com too, if
they havent already. First basics steps (reading in, printing
out) is a slow hurdle for many first-timers, and they dont
want time penalties (20mins for an incorrect solution) for
silly mistakes.
3) Especially external contestants if any
- if you have people travelling to your site for the
contest from other universities, you must communicate to them
useful arrival information, and whether they should bring
anything like a laptop to compete with (or if/how they will
access your computers).
4) Answering Questions on the day (and DomJudge)
- During the contest, students should ask technical
questions to us (not you) using domjudge - using the
clarifications section. So you should only need to answer
questions for your location like 'where are the toilets' and
'its a bit warm in here'.
- BUT - there is a demo server for you to look at, if you
want to, prior to the contest.
https://www.domjudge.org/demo -
you can see an example of the team user interface and what
they'll have to do. how they can ask questions through it,
etc.
5) Responsible Site Host Persons only:
- Set aside time on friday afternoon for printing the
problemset and putting them in envelopes, and storing them in
your office securely until saturday morning.
More from me on Friday afternoon for final information.
- although feel free to ask Qs in slack.
best
Max