Contest Guidelines
Contest Arena Instructions / Guidelines
Time Line (29th December):
07:00 – 08:00 – Breakfast (proceed to contest arena after the breakfast)
08:15 hrs : Teams to be present in front of the contest arena
08:30 hrs : Teams enter the contest arena. After entering the arena, teams can login
09:00 hrs : ICPC Asia Amritapuri Site Regional Contest starts
09:05 hrs : Distribution of printed copies of problem sets
13:00 hrs : Rank-list is frozen 14:00 hrs : Contest ends
OTHER INSTRUCTIONS
1. Login Credentials are made available near the team workstation.
2. Solution to problems submitted for judging is called runs. Each run is judged as accepted or rejected by the judge, and the team is notified of the results. The file name should not have any white space. Compile error is not considered and will not be penalized.
3. All queries shall be raised only through contest platform only. If the judges agree that an ambiguity or error exists, a clarification will be issued to all contestants through the contest platform.
4. Contest platform is used for contest announcements and those alone will stand valid.
5. Discussion among the teams is not allowed in the contest arena. Teams shall contact the volunteers alone for any kind of need in the contest arena.
6. While the contest is scheduled for a particular time length (five hours), the Contest Director has the authority to alter the length of the contest in the event of unforeseen difficulties. Should the contest duration be altered, every attempt will be made to notify contestants in a timely and uniform manner.
7. A team may be disqualified by the Contest Director for any activity that jeopardizes the contest including the tampering of computers and misbehavior of the teams.
8. Teams can bring up to 25 A4 size pages of typed, printed materials with them. Printed material shall be deposited at the registration/team workstation during the practice session. The same will be made available during the contest. Team members are NOT allowed to carry any item to the contest arena.
9. Teams can get their source code printed during the contest. They shall make sure that the printing software works for their computers. Passing of printed codes to other team is strictly prohibited.
10. The decision on the contest of the judges is final.
11. Teams should inform the volunteers if they are not getting clarification for the queries. These
complaints will not be entertained after the contest.
12. You can use any of the standard library functions that your chosen programming language provides. In addition, you can use the math library in C/C++. You cannot use any other library that requires an extra flag to be passed to the compiler commands. If you do this, the judges will probably find a code 'compilation error' in your program.
13. Your program is not permitted to invoke any external programs. For example, you cannot use in C the system call ('grep xyz abc') to determine whether the file abc contains an occurrence of the string xyz. Violation of this rule may lead to disqualification from the contest.
14. Contestants are required wear the ICPC ID cards , ICPC Asia Amritapuri Site t-shirt along with formal pants to participate in the contest.
15. The langauges allowed are C, C++, Java, Kotlin, PYTH, PYTH 3.6, PYPY.
Java, Kotlin, PYTH, PYTH 3.6, PYPY will have a time limit multiplier of 2. It is guaranteed that you will be able to solve all problems with C, C++ and Java. No such guarantees exist for the other languages.