Rules

1. This contest is open only to Philippine teams from Higher Educational Institutions.
2. This contest is an online contest hosted by hackerrank.com.
3. Each team must have a computer with IDE and compilers/interpreters for C/C++, Java, and Python. The said computer must have a suitable Internet access to hackerrank.com,
4. Only teams registered at the ICPC Baylor site for the 2017 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Philippine National Programming Contest (a subsite of the 2017 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Regional Contest) are eligible to join this on-line contest. Please check the registration page for team elibility. Only the teams registered at the ICPC Baylor site will be given team access to the hackerrank.com website.
5. Each team that registered at the Baylor site should register at hackerrank.com. Please make sure your email addresses at the Baylor site and at Hackerrank.com are the same. After each member of the team creates their own account at Hackerrank.com, they have to create their team (with the same team name at the Baylor site) through this URL: https://www.hackerrank.com/settings/teams.
6. The standard scoring rules in ACM ICPC apply.
7. The team registration for 2017 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Philippine National Programming Contest is the same for 2017 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Regional Contest. Each team has to register first at the 2017 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Regional Contest then register again at 2017 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Philippine National Programming Contest. There's a maximum of 10 teams per school.
8. The submissions of teams will be subjected to scrutiny of the judges. For instance, exact copy or very similar solutions submitted by different teams will be flagged by the judges and may be excluded from the final score. The scores given by the contest judges are final.
9. Each team is expected to follow the following behaviors:
   • Only the 3 students comprising a team are expected to work on the problem set.
   • Each student can only be a member of one team.
   • The team coach is expected not to interfere with each of the 3 member team under his/her supervision once the contest starts.
   • Each team does not get unauthorized help from individuals (or websites) while solving the contest problems.
10. The contest will run for 5 hours (12:00 to 5:00pm on October 14, 2017). The results of the 2017 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Philippine National Programming Contest do not affect the team registration at the 2017 ACM ICPC Asia Manila Regional Contest.

OPTIONAL: Teams may participate in a dry run contest on October 7, 2017, from 12:00 to 5:00pm.

The exact URL of the practice contest is https://www.hackerrank.com/pnpc-2017-practice