Fwd: Call for ACM ICPC Kolkata Site
Shubham Chaudhary
From: ACM ICPC Kolkata Site 2015 <regist...@icpckolkata.in>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 at 19:00
Subject: Call for ACM ICPC Kolkata Site
To: Chaudhary Shubham <shubhamch...@gmail.com>
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 eighteen 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, 2016 at Phuket, Thailand. Please note that IBM is the global sponsor of the world finals. For more information about ACM ICPC, I request you to visit http://www.acm.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++ 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. The preliminary online contest for Kolkata site will be held on 31 October 2015 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. This year Kolkata Site Contest will be held on 25 & 26 December 2015 at National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Kolkata, India. It is expected that about 300 teams from all over India, and from other countries in South and Central Asia, will participate at this site. Because of the limitation of seats at the site, it has been decided to hold a preliminary online contest on 31 October 2015 to shortlist teams for the Kolkata Site contest. 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 2015.
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 http://icpc.baylor.edu. This must be done by September 30, 2015. 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: Rs. 3,500/- Make a demand draft of Rs. 3,500/- drawn in favor of "ACM Kolkata" payable at Kolkata, India. Do not forget to write the Team Name and Address for Correspondence on the backside of the Draft. 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.
For Teams from Other Countries: US$ 250/-. Make ONE demand draft of US$ 250/- drawn in favor of "ACM Kolkata" payable at Kolkata, India.
For more details please visit www.icpckolkata.org you can also e-mail us via regist...@icpckolkata.org
Thank you,
Dr. Sandesh Gupta
For ACM ICPC (Asia Region- Kolkata Site)-2015
National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Kolkata
Phone: +91-33-23370937, Fax: +91-33-23376331 Mobile: +91-9830530450
PS: Important Dates:
- Last Date of Registration: 30 September, 2015
- Preliminary Online Contest Date: 31 October, 2015
- Kolkata Site contest Date: 25 - 26 December, 2015
