Fall16

This is the first time in forever (not a Frozen (tm) reference) we aren't offering 309s (149s) as a class. But we are still sponsoring teams for the regionals! Goal is to get a team through to finals this year after coming very close last year

Important Links

• ICPC Site
• Mid Atlantic Regional Site (our region)
• Duke Regional Site (where we compete during the mid-atlantic region)
• Every ICPC problem....ever
• Where you will do scrimmages and such
• Getting Started

Important Dates and proposed discussion sessions

• 9/5: Duke Scrimmage (3 hrs)
• 9/17: Waterloo Scrimmage (unconfirmed 3 hrs)
• 9/24: ICPC North American Qualification Contest (5 hrs)
• 10/3: Duke Scrimmage (3 hrs)
• 10/10: Kevin PROBABLY back in town....discussion session
• 10/29: Duke Scrimmage (5 hrs)
• 10/31: Meeting to discuss logistics (mandatory for all contest participants)
• 11/5: Mid atlantic regional contest. Takes place at duke. plan to be there from ~8am to ~6pm
• 4/16: North American Invitational
• 5/20-5/25: World Finals....in wonderful Rapid City, South Dakota!

Quick Questions

• Do I have to attend every event to participate in regionals?
  • No. But if you plan to participate in regionals, we expect you to participate in the qualification contest. If there is some conflict with that, then talk to Kevin and we can work it out. We also expect everyone to be at the session on 10/31 to discuss logistics.
• Will we have regular monday sessions?
  • I will be out of town until the second week of October. Until then, any discussion sessions will be based on interest. I am willing to set them up if there is interest. Once I'm back in town, we will have at least two: once soon after I get back to gather everyone together, and once the week before the contest. The other 1 or 2 weeks wil be based on interest.
• Will there be pizza?
  • If a team qualifies for world finals, I guarantee there will be pizza. I will personally buy it if I have to.
• Yes but what about the other weeks?
  • Ask OLA. If you can convince him to fund it, there will be pizza.
• What about teams?
  • In case you didn't know (this is what I'd cover if I were in Durham!) contests comprise of teams of exactly 3 people (three is the number your team will comprise, and the size of your team will be three...no more no less. five is right out). If you have people in mind, get them on board! If you didn't have people in mind, we'll find you some new friends. We've never NOT had someone who couldn't compete but wanted to.

Current interest

Confirmed for Regionals

Torrent

• Samadwara
• Tony
• ???

Sunshine

• Patrick
• Paul
• ???

The Bees

• Alex
• David
• Jiawei

Needs Team

• Daniel

New Interest

• Henry
• Joyce
• Hari
• Hunter
• Alexandru
• Trung (?)