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ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf]

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Re: ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf]

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From Wikipedia: 'The 2015 World Finals are being held in Marrakesh (Morocco) during May 16-21, hosted by Mohammed the Fifth University, Al Akhawayn University and Mundiapolis University. Final competition will be on May 20th. 128 teams are competing to be World Champion.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_Pr...

Re: ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf]

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I participated in ACM-ICPC regionals back in November and it was a lot of fun. I definitely recommend it to anyone that has the chance to go to preliminaries next year.

The time limits are quite brutal for some of the problems @ finals, most of them I'd never have a proper optimal solution for.

Also, the fact that Peking understood and solved A in just 5 minutes is crazy. Sure, I could at least do A, but they practice enormously just for these.

Re: ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf]

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Post by muehlbau »

virulent wrote: post #4

I participated in ACM-ICPC regionals back in November and it was a lot of fun. I definitely recommend it to anyone that has the chance to go to preliminaries next year. The time limits are quite brutal for some of the problems @ finals, most of them I'd never have a proper optimal solution for. Also, the fact that Peking understood and solved A in just 5 minutes is crazy. Sure, I could at least do A, but they practic…

Is it still allowed to have a set of prepared implementations for standard algorithms and data structures? Still impressive to just need 5 minutes.

Re: ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf]

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Post by kenrick95 »

virulent wrote: post #4

I participated in ACM-ICPC regionals back in November and it was a lot of fun. I definitely recommend it to anyone that has the chance to go to preliminaries next year. The time limits are quite brutal for some of the problems @ finals, most of them I'd never have a proper optimal solution for. Also, the fact that Peking understood and solved A in just 5 minutes is crazy. Sure, I could at least do A, but they practic…

I was in the regional (Asia-Kuala Lumpur) where Tokyo University team (3rd in the frozen scoreboard) solved all of the 12 problems in 2.5 hours (out of 5 hours). Yeah, it was really demotivating to see someone else have completed all problems yet you just solved 4 problems. In the end, although my team solved 6 problems and finished at 22nd place, I can say that joining ACM-ICPC regionals is one of my greatest moment in this uni life.

Re: ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf]

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Post by kenrick95 »

muehlbau wrote: post #5
virulent wrote: post #4

I participated in ACM-ICPC regionals back in November and it was a lot of fun. I definitely recommend it to anyone that has the chance to go to preliminaries next year. The time limits are quite brutal for some of the problems @ finals, most of them I'd never have a proper optimal solution for. Also, the fact that Peking understood and solved A in just 5 minutes is crazy. Sure, I could at least do A, but they practic…

Is it still allowed to have a set of prepared implementations for standard algorithms and data structures? Still impressive to just need 5 minutes.

You're allowed to bring a reference material of 25 pages, single-sided, A4 or letter size.

http://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/on-site-registration

Re: ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf]

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Post by virulent »

kenrick95 wrote: post #6
virulent wrote: post #4

I participated in ACM-ICPC regionals back in November and it was a lot of fun. I definitely recommend it to anyone that has the chance to go to preliminaries next year. The time limits are quite brutal for some of the problems @ finals, most of them I'd never have a proper optimal solution for. Also, the fact that Peking understood and solved A in just 5 minutes is crazy. Sure, I could at least do A, but they practic…

I was in the regional (Asia-Kuala Lumpur) where Tokyo University team (3rd in the frozen scoreboard) solved all of the 12 problems in 2.5 hours (out of 5 hours). Yeah, it was really demotivating to see someone else have completed all problems yet you just solved 4 problems. In the end, although my team solved 6 problems and finished at 22nd place, I can say that joining ACM-ICPC regionals is one of my greatest moment…

Wow that's crazy, no doubt it must have been really demotivating.. I was in the Northeast NA regional and MIT (#11 in the frozen scoreboard) only solved 6/8 of the problems at regionals. Most of us only solved 1-3.

Re: ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf]

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Post by felixgallo »

kenrick95 wrote: post #7
muehlbau wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it still allowed to have a set of prepared implementations for standard algorithms and data structures? Still impressive to just need 5 minutes.

You're allowed to bring a reference material of 25 pages, single-sided, A4 or letter size. http://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/on-site-registration

that's amazing. I would love to see an example team's document.

Re: ACM-ICPC World Finals 2015 Problems [pdf]

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Post by virulent »

felixgallo wrote: post #9
kenrick95 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're allowed to bring a reference material of 25 pages, single-sided, A4 or letter size. http://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/on-site-registration

that's amazing. I would love to see an example team's document.

Stanford's is pretty nice: http://stanford.edu/~liszt90/acm/ (notebook files). There's also one from a Korean university there.
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