Team Composition and Eligibility
All PSITE member institutions from Eastern Visayas are invited to join the 1st Eastern Visayas Coding Olympics (EVCO 2023).
(SUCs/Private HEIs that are not yet PSITE member may apply for membership to be able to join this competion. To know more about institutional membership, please contact PSITE-EV thru this link )
Each member institution can sponsor a minimum of one (1) team for each contest strand.
Each team must be composed of 3 members.
A representative of the sponsoring institution of higher education, typically a faculty member, must serve as or designate the team coach. The coach certifies the eligibility of contestants according to the eligibility requirements and serves as the official point-of-contact with the team prior to, during, and after contest activities.
A team will only have one coach.
Participating SUCs/Private HEI must designate a faculty to serve as invigilator during the competition.
Invigilators must be an active member of PSITE.
(Faculty members that are not yet PSITE member may apply for membership to be able to serve as invigilator. To know more about individual membership, please contact PSITE-EV thru this link )
Invigilators are entitled to receive travel and food allowance from PSITE-EV
Each member of the participating team, along with their coach is required to attend all contest activities.
Eligibility Requirements
Each team must have 3 members. Team members may not receive any help from anyone outside of their team.
Each team member must be enrolled at a school not higher than tertiary education, for the majority of the period 1 August to October 24, 2023.
Each team member must have registered officially through the registration form provided by PSITE-EV.
Each team member must have a valid email address.
There are two contest strands: Java and C. We expect each division will be interesting for participants of the following skill levels:
Strand 1: The C division is intended for students who are confident in their competitive programming ability in C Programming Language
Strand 2: The Java division is intended for anyone who are confident in their competitive programming ability in Java Programming Language
Each team must create an account in codechum.com
Each team is given 2 weeks (Schedule) to practice and get familiar with the coding environment designated for the competition.
Each team must have a stable internet connection within their University premises during the competition.
Use of other IDE except those provided by the CodeChum platform is prohibited
Duration : 2 hours
Modality : Online
Number of Problems : 10
Scoring : Each problem will have a predetermined score.
Contest Rules
Each team has access to one computer workstation and is given a set of independent problems which may be solved in any order using Code Chum.
Each solution is a program, composed by the team at the compiler provided by CodeChum in the online platform. The judges guarantee that all problems can be solved in C and Java.
Teams must not use any electronic or programmable devices other than a single computer workstation.
Team members may communicate with each other and with contest officials but not with anyone else.
Contest officials will assist teams with system problems but all questions relating to the contest problem set must be submitted to the judges via the clarification mechanism.
A contestant may submit a claim of ambiguity or error in a problem statement by submitting a clarification request to a judge. If the judges agree that an ambiguity or error exists, a clarification will be issued to all contestants.
Notification of accepted solutions (runs) may be suspended at an appropriate time to keep the final results secret. A general announcement to that effect will be made during the contest. Notification of rejected runs will continue until the end of the contest.
Solutions must be submitted via codechum.com platform before the contest ends.
The final ranking will be based on the total score achieved by each participating team.
PSITE will send an invigilator to each participating school to ensure the integrity of the competition.
Each participating team will earn the full score for each problem if the solution is correct and efficient.
Partial scores may be awarded for solutions that are partially correct but do not meet all the requirements.
Undermining the legitimacy of the contest. Contestants may be disqualified from any of the contests and training camps if the organizing committee reasonably believes that they have attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of any of the contests, by engaging in activities including (but not limited to):
Providing false information about themselves during registration or concerning their eligibility.
Breaching or refusing to comply with the rules.
Sharing or using from others, whether intentionally or unintentionally, any information about a task, including its content or solution, before the end of a round.
Displaying behavior considered to be disruptive, unethical, or unsportsmanlike.
Failing to reply. Contestants may be disqualified if they fail to respond to any request for information from the organizing committee related to the contest.
Reporting possible cases. Any harassment, cheating, or violation of these terms may be reported to PSITE-EV by email thru evco2023@southernleytestateu.edu.ph