ICPC for Schools 2018

Format of the competition

The competition consists of two rounds.

• Online round (Eliminations)
  
  • Date: 23rd October 2018 (Tue)
  • Timing: 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm
  • Contest link: www.codechef.com/ACMIND18
• Onsite regional round (Finals)
  
  • After the online round, those teams who solve atleast one problem in the online round, will have to select at 1 regional site
  • Based on the team’s site selection, performance in the online round and number of slots at each regional site, it will be allotted regional site(s).
  • Dates:
    
    • ABV-IIITM Gwalior - 17-18 December 2018
    • Amrita School of Engineering Coimbatore - 28-29 December 2018

Why participate?

• It is a unique opportunity to participate in ICPC while still being at school and experience the regional rounds.
• Participants get to meet, interact and learn from the best programmers in colleges from across the country.

Prizes

• All the teams solving at least one problem in the online round are eligible to receive a participation certificate.
• All the teams attending the regional round will receive a participation certificate and ICPC - CodeChef Goodies.
• The teams selected for Amritapuri Coimbatore Regionals will get to attend Winter Programming camp (27-28 December 2018). Sessions will be handled by the best problem setters, coders in the country. Best performing team members from ICPC may also teach the young budding coders.
• The top team(s)* at each regional site, wins a cash prize, up to INR 20,000.
• Jackpot prize:
  
  • If a team comes in the top 12% in the onsite regional rank-list among the college and school students, then they get double the eligible cash prize.

*Exact distribution will be announced after the online round results based on the participation and the number of slots at each regional site.

Travel Reimbursement To The Onsite:

• The teams coming in top 10 in the online round will be eligible for travel reimbursement to the onsite round.
• Each team member will be entitled to travel reimbursement of up to INR 3500/-
• Teams eligible for the onsite travel reimbursement are as below:
  

  Team Name	Team Handle	Team Members
  antipro	antipro	rajarshi_basu,adhyyan1252
  Swedish House Mafia	swedish_mafia	ilovetau_628
  AC++;	shashwatdhruv	shashwatchandr,dhruvsomani,bharat2002
  Coding Craps	coding_craps	crap_the_coder
  codetalker	urssidd	code_talker
  Noob_coder	exun_coder	aloo1304
  Bashers	bashers	xerefic,aniketh_g,anirudh200602
  Noisy Joker	noisy_joker	fortunate_man
  CodeModeOn	codemodeon2018	bdyutish,newtech66,j_agarwala
  g33k56	g33k56	sanskar_bansal

Note: If any of the above teams are not travelling to the onsite round, then the next team in the school ranklist will be eligible for travel reimbursement.

Eligibility

• You can participate if you are studying in a school in India

Team Formation

• A team can have up to 3 members. Even a single member can compete as a team.
• No participant can be a member of more than one team.
• Unlike past years, there is no restriction for the members of a team to be from the same school.

Registration

• Register your team here: www.codechef.com/teams/register/ICPCSC18.
• Last date to register: 21 October 2018
• There is no registration fee for the online round

Previous Year Problems

• 2017
  
  • Online round: ACMIND17
  • Onsite round: IIT Kharagpur, ABV-IIITM Gwalior, Amritapuri University Kollam
• 2016
  
  • Online round: ACMIND16
  • Onsite round: Amritapuri University Kollam

Note:

• This contest is not officially related with the icpc.foundation and hence this will not merit qualification to the ICPC World Finals.

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