ICPC South Central USA Regional Contest

Contest Information

Please visit acm2021.scusa.lsu.edu for information about the next upcoming regional.

Here are the Final Results.

Here are the Problems.

Here are the teams that are anticipated to advance to the NADC.

Here is the resolver run: Downloadable MP4, Youtube

Details:

• Final Report
• Things to do before the Opening Webinar
• Contest Day Schedule
• Contest Details
• Advancement Information
• Previous Contests
• 2020 SCUSA Staff
• Contest Contact Info

Final Report

Here are the Videos played at the opening ceremonies.

Here are the Problems.

Here are the teams that are anticipated to advance to the NADC.

Here is the resolver run: Downloadable MP4, Youtube

This contest was an online contest with Internet access and each team member allowed their own computer. The combination of three computers per team (instead of one) and Internet access apears to have increased the rate of submissions and solutions. This change definitely allowed one team to dominate the "First to Solve" category. The first place team, University of Texas at Dallas Whoosh was the first team to solve 10 of the 16 problems (and tied to the nearest minute on an 11th problem). Whoosh went on to solve all 16 problems in less than three hours.

The top three were clearly delineated:

1. University of Texas at Dallas Whoosh solved all 16 problems
2. Texas A&M tamoo solved 15 problems
3. University of Texas at Austin O(range) solved 14 problems

Fourth through tenth solved 11 problems each.

Nine teams from six Universities are eexpected to advance to the NADC.

Thanks to all of the contestants, coaches, judges, and staff that made this contest possible.

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Things to do before the Opening Webinar

All

• Latest version is 5.5.4
• Zoom Download Page

Contestants

Message from Kattis Team:

Please remind participants that they should use the account that is associated with their ICPC registration email (if they have multiple Kattis accounts). Any Kattis user can login to a contest (and even make submissions), but if they are using an account that is not on a team for the contest, they are not actually participating in the contest. A non-participant will see "Spectator" on the top right of their page. If the person is on a team for the contest, but they see "Spectator", that's a sign they are using the wrong account.

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Contest Day Schedule

Welcome/Colsing Webinar
Coaches Meeting

Note: All times in Central Time Zone

YouTube playlist of all above videos

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Contest Details

Due to Covid, this year will be very different. Here are some details for you:

• Registration dealine: February 26, 2021
• Registration Link: registration
• No registration fee
• Online Contest
• Computers - use your own. Each team member may use a computer of their choice (any OS)
• CCS - Teams will login to Kattis to compete (each team will login). Kattis will be used to see problem statements, submit solutions, check scoreboard and submit/check clarifications.
• Communication - teams may use whatever method they choose to communicate with each other during contest (Zoom, Discord, ...)
• Internet access - teams are free to take advantage of public internet resources. You are not allowed to interact with live people (other than your team mates) during the contest. Please honor this requirement.
• Teams are welcome to use code posted publicly online. It might be wise to add a comment to your code attributing the source. This will help if the team is asked to explain their solution to that problem.
• Teams/members may be interviewed post contest to explain how their submissions work.

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Team Advancement

Things are different this year in regard to advancement (imagine that). The top nine (9) teams will advance from this regional to the NA Regional Championship. Unlike the past, as many as two (2) teams from the same school may advance to this playoff. Additional team(s) may receive an invite.

After the regional, the NA Regional Playoff will happen. Advancing teams from all regionals will compete for an invite to a week long training camp followed by a contest to select the teams that will be invited to World Finals from North America.

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Previous Contests

Bwlow are links to the contest web sites since 2000 and the various local documentation we have provided.

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2020 SCUSA Staff

• Regional Contest Directors: Kathy and Isaac Traxler
• Master of Ceremonies: Glenn Downing
• Chief Judge: David Van Brackle
• Contest Control System: Kattis Team
• Technical Support: Jason Kincl

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Contest Contact Info

http://acm2020.scusa.lsu.edu scoreboard

• via Discord: ICPC IO SCUSA discord channel
• via phone: (225) 267-7167

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