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NCPC 2015

Saturday 10th October 11:00-16:00 CEST


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The contest was held October 10th, 11:00-16:00 CEST. The winner was Omogen Heap from Stockholm, Sweden, who solved 9 out of 10 problems. Congratulations!

  • Final standings
  • Problem set [PDF].
  • Slides describing solutions [PDF].
  • Judges' input and output [tar.bz2]. For some problems a .desc file describes an input or a PNG image illustrates it.
  • Judges' solutions [tar.bz2].
  • Packaged problems including testdata, solutions, wrong solutions, output validators, input generators, etc.
  • All material are copyright 2015 by the NCPC 2015 jury. They are licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA v3.0 license.
  • The list of registered teams.

  • The registration is now closed. Your local organizer might still accept new teams, contact them to find out.
  • The list of registered teams.

The winners will be Nordic Champions in programming. Universities may select student teams to go to NWERC, the regional finals in the ICPC contest. NCPC also encompasses national and local championships.

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There will be two warmup contests at https://warmup.kattis.com to help you practice. The first is Saturday October 3rd 11:00-16:00 CEST. The second starts Saturday evening and continues until Friday October 9th.

NCPC will use the Kattis automatic judging system provided by Kattis. Every team will get a new account on the day of the competition.

Organisers should review the NCPC-Site-HOWTO.

NCPC subregional manager: Roy Andersson (Lund University)
NCPC director: Fredrik Heintz (Linköpings universitet)
Fredrik Niemelä (Kattis)
Head of Jury: Lukáš Poláček (Spotify)
Markus Sortland Dregi (University of Bergen)
Technical Director: Gunnar Kreitz (Spotify/Kattis)

Participating sites

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Below is a list of sites that will hopefully join NCPC in 2015. (+ marks verified sites.) Follow the links to get local information such as when and where to meet.

Denmark Organiser
+ DM I Programmering - København Søren Fogt Lundbo <sfl netcompany.com>
+ DM I Programmering - Aarhus Mathias Rav <rav cs.au.dk>
+ DM I Programmering - Aalborg Søren Fogt Lundbo <sfl netcompany.com>
Finland
+ Aalto University Teemu Sirkiä <teemu.sirkia aalto.fi>
+ University of Helsinki Antti Laaksonen <ahslaaks cs.helsinki.fi>
University of Tampere Heikki Hyyro <Heikki.Hyyro uta.fi>
+ Lappeenranta University of Technology Tuomo Sainio <tuomo.sainio lut.fi>
Iceland
+ Háskólakeppnin í forritun - Reykjavik University Hjalti Magnússon <hjaltmann gmail.com >
Norway Faculty Advisor: Magnus Lie Hetland<mlh idi.ntnu.no>
+ NTNU Marius Enerly <marius.enerly gmail.com>
Neshat Naderi <neshat.naderi hotmail.com>
+ University of Bergen Torstein Jarl Strømme <torsteins me.com>
+ University of Oslo Carl Martin Rosenberg <cmrosenb gmail.com>
+ Høgskolan i Gjøvik Login <login hig.no>
+ UiT the Arctic University of Norway Robert Pettersen <robert cs.uit.no>
Sweden National coordinator: Fredrik Heintz<fredrik.heintz liu.se>
Chalmers No organiser. Help us find one!
+ Karlstad University Stefan Alfredsson <Stefan.Alfredsson kau.se>
+ Linköpings universitet Fredrik Heintz <fredrik.heintz liu.se>
+ Luleå Institute of Technology Adam Sahlin <adasah-1 student.ltu.se>
+ Lund University Roy Andersson <roy.andersson cs.lth.se>
+ KTH Royal Institute of Technology Marc Vinyals <vinyals kth.se>
+ Umeå University Tomas Forsman <stric cs.umu.se>
+ Uppsala University Lars-Åke Nordén <lln it.uu.se>

Rules

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In short: Teams of up to three persons try to solve as many problems as possible from a set, without external help.

Note that new languages have been added since 2014 and rules regarding programming languages have been clarified. Read the details below.

The rules for this contest is given by the ICPC regional contest rules, with the following clarifications and additions:

Who may compete

The teams competing consist of up to three persons. The competition is open to everybody, as long as they belong to some Nordic entity in some sense (all belong a given university or company, or all just come from the same country).

ICPC eligibility

Only ICPC eligible student teams compete in the ICPC division. These may qualify for the regional finals (NWERC), and further to the ICPC World Finals. Basically, any student who started his/her university/college studies in 2011 or later is eligible to compete. For exceptions such as retaken years, military service and so on, please refer to the ICPC rules. Persons who have competed in five regional finals already, or two world finals, may not compete in the ICPC division.

What you may bring to the contest floor

  • Any written material (Books, manuals, handwritten notes, printed notes, etc).
  • Pens, pencils, blank paper, stapler and other useful non-electronic office equipment.
  • NO material in electronic form (CDs, USB pen and so on).
  • NO electronic devices (Cellular phone, PDA and so on).

What you may use during the contest

  • What you brought to the contest floor (see above).
  • Your assigned (single) computer.
  • The specified system for submitting solutions.
  • Printers designated by the organiser.
  • Things given to you by the contest organiser.
  • Electronic content specified by the organiser, such as language APIs and compiler manuals.
  • Compilers and IDEs specified by the organiser.
  • Non-programmable tools which are a natural part of the working environment (such as diff and less).
  • NO other compilers or interpreters for programming languages.

Behaviour during the contest

Before the contest begins, you are allowed to log in on your assigned computer, and log in on the submission system. You may do nothing else with the computer (such as starting to write code). You may not touch the problem set before the contest has started.

Contestants are only allowed to communicate with members of their own team, and the organisers of the contest. You may not surf the web (except for allowed content), read e-mail, chat on MSN, or similar things. The only network traffic you may generate is from submitting problem solutions, and access to content specified by the local organisers.

The contest

The problem set consists of a number of problems (usually 8-12). The problem set will be in English, and given to the participating teams when the contest begins. For each of these problems, you are to write a program in C, C++, C#, Go, Java, Objective-C, Python, Haskell, JavaScript or PHP. The jury guarantees that each problem is solvable in C++ and Java. No guarantees for other languages are given due to the big number of allowed languages.

The submitted programs must read from standard input (stdin) and write to standard output (stdout), unless otherwise stated. After you have written a solution, you may submit it using the specified submission system.

The team that solves the most problems correctly wins. If two teams solve the same number of problems, the one with the lowest total time wins. If two top teams end up with the same number of problems solved and the same total time, then the team with the lowest time on a single problem is ranked higher. If two teams solve the same number of problems, with the same total time, and the same time on all problems, it is a draw. The time for a given problem is the time from the beginning of the contest to the time when the first correct solution was submitted, plus 20 minutes for each incorrect submission of that problem. The total time is the sum of the times for all solved problems, meaning you will not get extra time for a problem you never submit a correct solution to.

If you feel that problem definition is ambiguous, you may submit a clarification request via the submission system. If the judges think there is no ambiguity, you will get a short answer stating this. Otherwise, the judges will write a clarification, that will be sent to all teams at all sites in the contest.



Updated: 2015-08-17 (h c)
Responsible editor: Fredrik Heintz