Fwd: Call for ACM ICPC Kolkata Site
Sarfaraz Masood
From: acm ICPC Kolkata <acmko...@nitttrkol.ac.in>
Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:10 PM
Subject: Call for ACM ICPC Kolkata Site
To: "." <sma...@jmi.ac.in>
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Hi,
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) is the largest programming contest being organized all over the world every year. The ACM ICPC is an activity of the ACM that provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solving and computing skills. The contest is considered to be the "Olympiad of Computer Programming". It is a two tier contest. The world is divided into six regions and Asia is a region. In Asia there are twenty two sites and Kolkata is one of them. There are more than 85 sites all over the world. Each site selects one team as winner of the site and will be eligible to participate in the world finals which will be held in May, 2017 at at Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. Please note that IBM is the global sponsor of the world finals. For more information about ACM ICPC, I request you to visit https://icpc.baylor.edu
An educational institute first enrolls its team under a site. A team consists of at most 3 contestants and a coach from the same institution. Generally each team gets 6 to 8 problems to be solved within 5 hours. A team can submit the programs in C, C++, Python or in JAVA. A team which can solve maximum number of problems with minimum penalty points is declared as the winner.
In case a site finds that there are too many teams registered in that site, it shortlists the desired number of teams from the enrolled teams through a preliminary online (internet) contest. “There will be a single online contest for all the four sites of India i.e. ACM ICPC Asia Region i.e. Amritapuri/ Chennai/ Kharagpur and Kolkata Sites 2016. All the teams willing to participate in any of these sites will have to register individually for each site. A separate result for each site will be prepared on the basis of the performance of teams (registered for that site) in online contest.” The above said preliminary online contest will be held on 08, October 2016 to shortlist the teams for participation in Kolkata Site.
The Kolkata Site contest is organized by National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Kolkata, India and this is second time in a row that NITTTR, Kolkata is organizing this contest. This year Kolkata Site Contest will be held on 19 & 20 November 2016 at Kolkata, India. It is expected that about 600 teams from all over India, and from other countries in South and Central Asia, will participate at this site. Only those teams that qualify the preliminary online contest shall be eligible to participate in the Kolkata Site Contest. The last date of registration is 30 September 2016. For more details about Kolkata Site Contest please visit http://icpckolkata.in/
For registration follow the following procedure:
Registration is a two steps process:
Step 1: Register your team on the ACM ICPC Contest's International Site https://icpc.baylor.edu and choose "Asia Kolkata Regional Contest-2016". This must be done by September 30, 2016. For this purpose a Coach should initiate the registration process by registering himself and his team Contestants (by providing their names and email id’s) in the ICPC website. After this each contestant will get an email from the ICPC site to complete their profile, which should be completed by each contestant individually. Do remember to provide the registration fee details (i.e. Demand Draft Number, Issuing Bank Name, Amount and Issue Date of demand draft) to the coach, which will be required in the contest specific details at the very beginning of registration at ICPC website.
Step 2: Send the Demand Draft along with a printout of duly signed form (which can be downloaded by clicking here) to the Contest Coordinator and it should reach to us on or before September 30, 2015.
Registration Fee:
For Teams from India: Make a demand draft of Rs. 3,500/- drawn in favor of "ACM Kolkata" payable at Kolkata, India. However, in case a team from India cannot qualify the preliminary online contest, the amount of Rs. 2750/- will be returned soon after the contest. Do not forget to write the Team Name and Address for Correspondence on the backside of the Draft.
For Teams from Other Countries: Make ONE demand draft of US$ 250/- drawn in favor of "ACM Kolkata" payable at Kolkata, India.
For more details please visit www.icpckolkata.in you can also e-mail us via cpcko...@nitttrkol.ac.in
Thank you,
Dr. Sandesh Gupta
For ACM ICPC (Asia Region- Kolkata Site)-2016
National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Kolkata
Phone: +91-33-66251 950, Fax: +91-33-23376331 Mobile: +91-9830530450
PS: Important Dates:
- Last Date of Registration: 30 September, 2016
- Preliminary Online Contest Date: 08 October, 2016
- Kolkata Site contest Date: 19 - 20 November, 2016
