ACM Programming Contest - Canberra Site

2002 Contest report

This year the Canberra site had four teams competing from the ANU. All the teams solved the first three problems quickly. However, from this point on the task before the teams became considerably more difficult. Problem 4 cause difficulties as the programs submitted, although produced the correct results, were an order of magnitude to slow for the test data. ANU 42 managed to get 4 problems out. Yet, once again "Implausable Solutions" came out on top solving 5 problems. Overall the contest ran very smoothly, with the pc2 software not causing any problems. Many thanks to Bob Edwards for organizing and setting up the computers and their environment(and for getting the pizza!). Overall everyone concerned found this a challenging and enjoyable day.

Below is a photo of the group of students that competed.

ANU - Implausible Solutions:

• Kevin Easton
• Matthew Duggan
• Paul Hampson

• Joel Taplin
• Simon Bear
• Simon Thornton

• Andrew Bartlet
• Iain Little
• Sean Wellsmore

• David Price
• Tom Green
• Tom Rowlands

Below is the result for the Canberra site:

Rank	Team	Solved	Score
1	1 - ANU Implausible Solutions	5	550
2	3 - ANU 42	4	442
3	2 - ANU Blue	3	184
4	4 - ANU Green	3	212

Team	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5	P6	P7	P8	P9	Total
ANU Implausible Solutions	1/11	1/46	1/27	6/--	3/182	1/244				13/5
ANU 42	1/22	1/109	1/59	5/--	1/252					9/4
ANU Blue	1/21	1/57	2/86		4/--					8/3
ANU Green	1/12	1/158	1/42							3/3
Summary	4/4/11	4/4/46	5/4/27	11/0/--	8/2/182	1/1/244	0/0/--	0/ 0/--	0/0/--	33/15

The date for the 2002 ACM South Pacific Region's contest was Saturday the 21st September. The regional results have now been finalized. ANU - Implausible Solutions came 10th within Australia and NZ.