ACM-ICPC 2017 Asia Official Regional Rules
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I.Missions:
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is
an activity of the ACM that provides college students with an
opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem solving and
computing skills.
The ACM-ICPC Asia Super-Regional Contests invite Asian
students
to meet, to establish friendships, and to promote fair competition
in programming and in application use of algorithms and
theory.
II.Fundamentals of the Rules of ICPC Regional
Contests:
Rules for the Asia Regional Contests are additions to the rules
of ACM -ICPC Regional Programming Contests and ICPC Steering
Committee Policies Procedures. Please refer to hyperlink:
http://icpc.baylor.edu/
III. 2017 Asia Regional Specific Rules:
A. Asia Regional Contests, Organization, and
Administration
1. The Asia Region covers all territories and
countries in Asia except Arabic speaking countries in the Middle
East.
2. Asia Regional Contests do not divide the region by political
territories. A team that advances to the Contest World Finals
represents the team’s university, not the team’s political
boundary.
3. Organization of Asia (Super) Region
(a)
Organization of Asia (Super) Region is
organized as one single region Asia Region. The three
administrative sub-regions are used for the purpose of World Finals
teams selection.
(b) The Asia Regional
Contest is administered under the direction of the 'Asia Director,
Asia Contests Director or Asia Super-regional Director,' who is
charged with executing Regional Contests within a set of rules and
guidelines that have been approved by the ACM -ICPC Executive
Director. The Asia Director selects several contest sites in Asia
each year, 25 sites in 2017, to hold the Asia Regional Contests.
The Asia Director also appoints one Contest Site Director (RCD) to
head each Contest Site Steering Committee. Asia Regional Site
Directors (RCD’s) are charged with responsibilities of planning,
organizing and executing the Regional Contests according to
ACM-ICPC Operational Guidelines. (Note: This represents the
semi-autonomous spirit for all Asia Regional Contest Sites, their
associated Steering Committees and Site Directors.)
The Asia Director also appoints Local Area Contest Directors for
National, Provincial, Multi-provincial and Invitational contests in
the Asia (Super) Region.
(c)
Asia Director heads the Asia Council and
appoints committee chairs for various committees to assist Asia
Director to promote and develop Asia Regional Contests, and to help
to recruit new Asia Regional Site Directors in all geographic areas
in the entire Asia. The list of members in 2017 Asia Council can be
found in Asia blog:
http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/s/blog_b946da100102xkb8.html?vt=4
(d)
All organizations, activities,
announcements, and resolutions bearing the name of ACM-ICPC in Asia
must be approved by Asia Director, and information must be posted
in the approved web sites only.
(e) There should be
no third party web sites or platforms be used for the Asia Regional
Site Contests including on-line contests, and neither for
provincial/invitational contests. Asia Regional Contest site
steering committees must post contest related information and
announcement in their respective local contest web sites under
their university network. They must also post rankings and list of
staff names in ICPC Baylor headquarter contest web sites. The Asia
Regional Site steering committees and the associated RCD’s should
not post any information to any website other than the three web
sites (ICPC Baylor headquarter web site, Asia blog, and Host
university local web site) without Asia Director’s
approval.
If requested by Asia Director, all host universities’ RCD’s
are required to acknowledge the ICPC Integrity Statement to protect
ICPC Academic integrity and RCD’s
autonomy
and to prevent the third party’s control
and involvement of ICPC activities.
(Please see item V.A. Appendix One
)
(f) Asia Director may
approve any seminars, forums, or training programs sponsored by any
individual, or any committee, as long as these activities are
beneficial to ACM-ICPC community.
4. Three Administrative Sub-regions
Each university competing in the Asia
Regional Contests is homed in one of three administrative
sub-regions based on the following geographical
locations:
(a)
Pacific & Southeast Peninsula
(PSP): Universities located in the West Pacific and South East
Asia including South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand,
Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar,
Singapore,
and
Laos.
(b)
East Continent
(EC): Universities located in
Mongolia, North Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong,
and Macau.
(c)
West Continent (WC):
Universities in
Central, South and West Asia including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, Nepal, Bhutan,
Maldives, and
optionally Central Asian Countries. Universities in
Central Asia countries may compete at West Continent Sub-Regional
Sites. These countries are Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,
Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Teams from Azerbaijan and Armenia are
also invited to participate in contest sites in West Continent
Sub-regionals. There is no need for
pre-approval to register in WC Sub-regions for teams from these
Central Asia countries. They are welcome to participate in WC
regional contests directly. For the central Asian teams who
register in Asia WC sites, their associated home universities shall
not have teams register in European contests or in Russian
Federation contests in the same year.
5. Structure of Asia Regional Site Contests and At most two
sites participation by a Contestant:
(a)
The World ICPC contest is a 2- tiered
competition (Regional On-site and World Finals) among teams of
students representing institutions of higher education. The ACM-
ICPC Asia Regional Contest, however, is a one-three tiered
competitions. Please see item (III.A.6) for detail.
(b)
The recommended organization of the Asia
Regional Contest Site Steering Committee for each Host University
site usually consists of the following members:
Honorary Chairs (Optional)
Chair (Regional Contest Site Director or Contest Site
RCD)
Co-Chairs (Asia Director, by default, is one of the
Co-chairs)
Committee Coordinator and/or Associate Site Director
(optional)
Chief Judge, Judging Team and Contest Problem Setter/Creator
Committee
System (Hardware/Software) Chair(s)
Registration Chair and Publicity Chair
Activities/Operation Chair
The Steering Committee for each contest site may implement
additional rules and a different committee organization pertaining
to that contest site. But the Asia Rules must be
followed.
(c)
Each University or
college in Asia may organize teams to participate in the Regional
contests at any Asia site. However, a contestant can participate
in, at most, two (2) Asian contest sites during a contest
year. A contestant may not
compete in Asia Regional Contests for more than five (5) years. A
contestant may not compete in World Finals for more than two (2)
years. A team may participate in the Asia Regional Contest,
bypassing the School, Provincial, Invitational, and National
levels. Please observe that a team can only
be advanced to World Finals from Asia Regional On-Site Contests
from the team's home sub-region.
6. Three levels of Asia Programming Contests:
(a) The Asia Contests'
Tree Structure.
The entire Asia Super-region is a tree with a root that we call
it tier-1 node. Under this root node there are 25 child nodes in
2017. Each child node is an Asia Regional On-site Contest that we
call tier-2 node. Under the Asia On-site contest (tier-2), we have
First Round Online Sub-contest that we call it tier-3. An Asia
Regional Contest Site includes both the On-site Regional contest
(tier-2) and the (tier 3) First Round Online Regional
Sub-Contest(s). The registration limit of two sites per year per
student applies to the union of both Asia Regional On-Site CONTEST
and their associated Online Regional Sub-contest. The tier-2 and
the tier-3, two together form one Asia regional site.
(b) Local Area
Contests
All National, Provincial and Invitational contests (these
contests are together called Local Area contests) will be all
grouped together in an independent contest site in ACM-ICPC Asia
Region titled “Asia Provincial-National contests”. The
local Area contest may be independent, or
may be a sub-contest or a part of the Asia Regional Contest if the
Local Area contest is hosted by the same Asia Regional host
university.
(c) Applications for
hosting Asia Regional On-site Contests, and First Round Online
Contests.
The ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest must be
hosted by a faculty member. The faculty member must apply directly
to Asia Director. The Contest Site Director must be an associate
professor or above, or equivalent in a university. The Student
Chapter members or student leaders can be volunteers in helping or
working for the contest. A faculty member must write an e-mail
application using his/her university e-mail account. Once approved,
the university faculty applicant will be placed in a wait list to
be a future host for Asia Regional. The faculty applicant may be the Site Director
(RCD) , or may work for the RCD. Some
financial support may be provided from ACM-ICPC and/or from global
sponsor for Asia Regionals.
The host university must obtain additional funding locally and
from registration fee. The host university is also required to host
Provincial/National contest and to register the contest and teams
in ICPC website before they are qualified for Asia Regional contest
host. (Application procedure for hosting any level of contests in
Asia can be found at the link:
http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/s/blog_b946da100102w8ic.html?vt=4
Once application for hosting is approved, Asia Regional
Site Directors or their representatives are required to participate
the World Finals RCD (Regional Contest Site Directors) Symposium
scheduled during the World Finals Contest earlier in the same
calendar year for training purpose. If a new Regional Site Director
or his/her representative does not participate in the World Finals
RCD Symposium and the World Final Contest, the Asia Director may
cancel his/her hosting authorization in the same calendar
year.
(d)
On-site contest.
Asia Regional Site Contest final round must be an on-site
contest. If the registration for on-site Asia Regional is too
large, first round online Asia Regional sub-contest(s) must be held
before the on-site Asia Regional contest. The contest dates of both
On-site Asia Regionals and the associated online sub-contests
should be after May 1 and before December 31 of each year.
The Asia Regional On-site contests are to
be scheduled between September 1 and December
31. Winning team of each Asia Regional
On-site Contest is selected to World Finals. Additional teams may
be selected to World Finals (WF) according to the formula described
in item (III.E.3).
Winning certificates are to be signed by ACM-ICPC
Executive Director, Asia Director, and Contest Site Director for
Asia Regional Contests.
(e) Application for
Hosting Provincial/Multi-provincial/Invitational/ National
Contests.
The application for a Provincial/National contest by a faculty
member is required. A student organization may host the contest.
But a faculty supervisor must supervise the contest. This faculty
supervisor must be responsible for the fairness of the contest and
the integrity of the entire contest operation. The faculty
supervisor must send Asia Provincial Coordinator or Provincial
Contests Coordinator an e-mail application using his university
e-mail account to confirm this before the application can be
approved. No financial support will be provided for
provincial/invitational /national contests from ACM-ICPC or from
global sponsor. ACM-ICPC certificates will be signed by faculty
supervisor and be issued for winners.
Team registration for provincial and national contests
must be done in ICPC web site. The
Provincial/Multi-provincial/Invitational/National contests are
independent of Asia Regional Contests. No team will be selected and
advanced to World Finals from these Contests. The contest date of
Provincial/National must be after February 1 and before Oct 31 of
each year.
(f) Campus Contest.
Hosting campus contest by a faculty member is preferred. A
student organization may host the contest. But a faculty supervisor
must supervise the contest. No financial support will be provided
for campus contest. ACM-ICPC certificates will NOT be issued for
winners. Host universities may issue their own certificates.
Registration must be done outside of ICPC web site.
(g) Team registration
for all levels of contests must be of 3 contestants in a
team.
7. Contest Registration and Advancing of First Round Online
Sub-contest to Asia On-Site Contest:
(a) ACM - ICPC Asia
Region has grown substantially in recent years. On-Site Regional
Contest usually cannot accommodate large numbers of teams. It is
also mandatory that each site accommodates all of qualified
registrations. To accomplish such goal, it is required that each
regional site conducts two cycles of regional contests– Asia First
Round Online sub-contest and Asia On-Site Regional Contest. Each
site should conduct Asia First Round Online Sub-Contest in advance
to select an appropriate number of teams for the On-Site Regional
Contest. All teams solving at least one
problem in the first round online sub-contest and in the Asia
on-site regional contest must be all ranked in ICPC contest web
site. Each Contest Site Director may set up its own fair
selection formula for teams to be advanced to On Site Regional
Contest. Contest Site Director may also modify contest rules for
the First Round Online Sub-contest within ICPC guidelines while
On-Site Regional Contest must follow Asia Rules and ICPC Regional
Contest Rules. It is also recommended that foreign teams may be
exempted from First Round Online Sub-Contest.
All additional policies and rules used by a contest site
committee must be posted in contest host local web site, and must
not post in any third party web site.
Under the system enforcing limit of 2 Asia registrations, Asia
region allows teams advanced to or registered in on-site contest
from any ONE of the following combinations. (Contest Site Directors
are autonomous in making such decision.)
- Team may be copied (promoted) from on-line contest or
re-register to on-site contest;
-Team may be a brand new set of team members with approval by
Contest Site Director;
Please note that the winning team
members from Asia on-site contest advancing to WF can not be
changed for any reason. (This is a
strict rule.)
(b) If the total
registration is low and all teams can be accommodated by On-Site
Regional Contest, the First Round Online Sub-contest may be
skipped. If the first round sub-contest is skipped, all teams in
the sub-contest should be moved to Asia On-site Regional Contest by
Contest Site Steering Committee.
(c) Repeat: A
contestant can register in at most two (2) Asia Regional Sites.
Each regional site consists of the On-site contest and the
first round Online sub-contest. The number of online sub-contests a
contestant can participate is still limited to two (2) Asia sites.
A contestant participates in on-line , but not in on-site contest
is also counted as one site participation.
(d) Each Asia RCD may
cancel on-line contest with approval by Asia Director even with a
large registration in on-line contest for special reasons. If the
on-line contest is cancelled, RCD is required to post a selection
criterion to select teams to actually participate the on-site
contest.
(e) National Online
Contest and Provincial level Online Contest hosted by Asia Regional
host university are considered as Asia First Round Online
Sub-contest if these contests are used to select teams for Asia
On-Site Regional Contest. These Contests will be treated as the
Asia Regional First Round Online Sub-contest and not be grouped
together with “Asia Provincial/National Contests”.
8. Organization of Asia Council and Committees.
(a)
Asia Council memberships consist of voting
members and non-voting members. The members are appointed by Asia
Director in a yearly basis, and are ACM volunteers.
(b) The voting
membership consists of all current year RCD’s and standing
committee members. Asia Director is the chair of standing
committees for all three sub-regions (sub-councils). All
RCD’s and standing committees report to Asia Director directly.
Standing committee members may overlap with RCD’s. If requested by
Asia Director, all RCD’s must protect the integrity
and autonomous nature of ICPC contests by acknowledging the
Integrity Form and Sponsorship Form.
(Please see item V.A.)
(c) Asia
Council voting members vote on the Asia Rules
and other associated resolutions.
Voting members (RCD’s and Standing committee members) from
the sub-council of each of three sub-regions vote on matters
related to their sub-region.
(d)
Under the Asia Council, there may be
some committees appointed to assist Asia Director and to provide
volunteer service to ICPC community. All committee chairs also
report to Asia Director. Committee chairs are not in any
supervisory or management responsibilities over any RCD. These
committee members or committee chairs are non-voting members in
Asia Council. They may suggest proposals and submit opinions to
Asia Director. (Note that any member of ICPC community may also
submit proposal to Asia Director directly.) The list of
members in 2017 Asia Council may be found in the Asia blog at the
following link:
http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/s/blog_b946da100102xkb8.html?vt=4
(e)
One important committee in Asia Council is
the “Promotion and
Consultation (PC) Committee”.
Members (advisors) in this committee are
to help to recruit new RCD’s, to promote ICPC activities, and
provide support and consultation to new RCD’s for Asia Regionals
and for provincial and invitational contests in their respective,
selected, or appointed area.
(f)
Non-voting members of Asia Council are invited to
voice their opinions to Asia Director as reference for important
issues.
(g) RCD’s are required to attend WF activities with hotel and
activities meals paid by ICPC WF. Upon request to Asia Director,
non-RCD members of Asia Council will be invited to attend WF
activities with hotel expense self paid and activities with meals
paid by ICPC WF. This is
subject to the availabilty of the hotel room and with the ICPC WF
budget constraints. The Transportation
expenses for all members of Asia Council to WF are self
paid.
B. Rules on Eligibility of Team Member, the Team, and
Registration
1. Rule of Contestants’ Eligibility Decision Tree
(a)
A team consists of exactly three
contestants.
All contestants are
urged to study the Regional Rules of the
Eligibility Decision Tree in ACM - ICPC Headquarter web site for
the eligibility of all contestants throughout the world.
http://icpc.baylor.edu/regionals/rules
(b) Remarks on
eligibility rule:
Technically, it is possible that a team may consist of three
first year graduate students if each of them meets the rule
qualification in a four-year program or university. Students from
two years colleges are also qualified to participate in Asia
Regional Contests.
(c)
Participation of two Asia sites
for the same year in Asia Regional Contests is considered as
one-time competition in Asia under the eligibility
rule.
2. A student can represent only one university. There will be
at most one team advancing to WF from the same
university.
3. A student may compete in at most
two(2) Asia Regional Site Contests, home or non-home administrative
sub-region. If there are more than one online first round
sub-contests under a Regional site, a student may compete in all
sub-contests under the same one Asia Regional
Site.
4. The coach of a team must be a faculty or a designated staff
member of the team’s university. A coach from outside of the team’s
university will disqualify the team.
5. Because of the problem of ‘no-shows’ by teams who register
and confirm participation in an on-site contest but do not actually
participate in the contest, it was decided that: If such
team do not cancel their registration at least ten (10) days before
the contest date, and do not show up in the contest, this team's
contestants will be disqualified for all other contest sites in the
same contest year.
6. Registration:
(a)The university name of a
team must be already in the ICPC registration database before a
team can register. The team coach should request the Contest Site
Director to ask ICPC manager to enter the Team’s university name in
the database if needed. This registration prerequisite applies to
Asia Regional Contests, Asia Regional Sub-contests, and Local Area
Contests.
(b) Then go to ICPC web
site to create an account for each team member if not done
previously:
http://icpc.baylor.edu
(c) Then register the team
in a selected contest in ICPC web site with three team
members.
7. A team must register in the sub-contests:
In most cases, teams are promoted (copied) from sub-contests to
Asia Regional On-site Contest by contest steering committee RCD.
Direct registration to Asia Regional On-site contests must be
approved by Asia Regional Contest Site Directors (RCD) and by Asia
Director for special situations or for foreign teams.
8. Registration Fee: The Steering Committee of each contest site
determines the registration fee of each team. In previous years,
the regional registration fee ranged from US$0 to US$300 around the
world.
9. Verification of Registration for the Asia On-Site Regional
Contest:
The coach of each team is required to verify and complete the
personal information of all contestants before the Asia On-Site
Regional (or Final Round Regional) contest. Without such
verification, the team will not be accepted for Asia On-Site or
Asia Final Round contest and therefore be disqualified.
10. Team Members Substitution in World Finals and in Asia
Regional Contest:
The team members for the team advanced to World Finals must
be identical to the members participated in the Asia On-Site
Regional Contest. No substitution or reserves will be allowed in
the World Finals. Any alteration on the team will disqualify the
team to the World Finals. However, Asia Regional Contest may allow
reserve team member registration and may allow the substitution of
the team member in the Asia regional contest provided that the team
composition change is entered in the ICPC registration system web
site before the Regional On-site Contest. Any change to the team
after that regional contest is not allowed.
C. Rules on Organization of Judges/Problem Setters
Committees
1. The Chief Judge and Site Director
of each contest site are responsible for organizing the judging
team. No member of the judging/problem setter committee should be
the coach of any contest team. It is highly recommended that the
judging team consist of faculty from other universities and/or
industry professionals. The use of an international judging team is
also encouraged, if possible. The size of the judging team is
recommended to be equal to the number of contest problems in the
contest
2. The Chief Judge and the Contest
Site Director make a final decision in selecting
the contest problems, in modifying the
submitted contest problems, or in adding additional contest
problems.
3. The Chief Judge is
encouraged to take care that there is one or two problems in the
set that is fairly easy, and at least one or two problems are of
medium difficulty since the WF slots distribution formula will
count only the accepted teams that have solved at least one
problem.
4. All contest problems in Asia Sites
must be written in English only. No multiple
languages are allowed in creating contest problems.
Exception must be approved by Asia Director
5. Contest Site Directors must enter
the names and their affiliated universities of all
problem setters and all judges in the Staff List of their respected
contest sites within one week after each Asia On-Site Regional
Contest.
6. Judging Committee and Options:
Asia Contest Site Directors at his/her own choice
are required to adopt one of the following two
options for the organization of judges and problem setters
committee. If it is difficult for some sites to adopt any option,
care of fairness should be taken care of when organizing the
judges/problem setters committee. Reasons for no-adoption requires
approval from Asia Director.
Option (a): The problem
setters/judges of the host site should be a committee of
at least 5 members. If any problem setter/judge
committee member expects his/her university team may advance to WF
from a contest site, that member of that university may not
contribute more than one contest problem.
Option (b):
No host team can be advanced to WF from the
host university site. But the host team may get some preference
from other contest sites under its home sub region. Further
restriction: A team cannot be advanced to WF, if the problem
setter/judge is from the same university of that team.
D. Some Rules on Conduct During Contests, and Team
number Assignment Recommendation.
1. No personally owned diskettes, mobile phone or calculators
are allowed during the contest. Electronic dictionaries are not
allowed. Paper dictionaries, however, may be allowed. Contest Site
Director may alter this rule. The World Finals rule on reference
materials may be different from this rule and the rules used by
Contest Site Director.
2. Notification of accepted runs from judges during the contest
may be suspended at the appropriate time (normally one hour before
the end) to keep the final results confidential for the purpose of
suspension. Notification of rejected runs may continue until the
end of the contest.
3. A very good method of assigning team numbers to teams so that
judges would not know the team name and the team university name.
This method is described below for your reference.
The team numbers are assigned randomly before the contest. Team
numbers should be used in PC^2 or any judging system. University
names should not be used in the PC^2 or any judging system and
should not be revealed to the judging team during the contest. The
Contest Site Director is responsible for posting the matching list
of team numbers and university names in the audience area within 60
minutes after the contest starts.
E. Rules on Team Rankings, Regional Contest Site Scoring, and
World Finals Slots
1. Team Rankings:
The official ranking for each contest site is school ranking
or “University ranking” for the contest
site.
RCD’s may at their discretion rank teams according to their
local requirements and needs and is called “RCD
rankings.” Typically, RCD rankings are the ranking
for all teams. University rankings are the rankings of the first
team of each university. Other teams of the same university will be
ranked as a tie with next ranked university. The University
rankings may be used for WF slots allocation. If local resolutions
have additional constraints to the university rankings such as WF
medal awards or preference teams, the university ranking will be
further refined to “WF-Slots Rankings'
by not counting the medal award teams and the
preference teams. For this case, teams will be awarded WF slots by
using 'WF-Slots rankings'.
(a)
It is mandatory
that each Contest Site Director must rank the teams who solve at
least one problem. The rankings must be done in both the first
round online sub-contest and the Asia Regional On-site contest and
must be posted in ICPC web site. Without such ranking
result in ICPC web site, the Regional contest site score will be
defaulted to zero score.
(b)
Official standings (University Rankings)
will first be ranked from the top team of each university/college.
Other teams from the same college will then be ranked as ties with
that of the next ranked team of another university. Each Contest
Site Director may select the first 6 or more universities to award
special prizes or may apply some good criteria to award teams. If
the first round online sub-contest is skipped due to low
registration or cancellation, the sub-contest will not be
ranked.
(c)
Teams (host teams) from host universities of Asia
Regional sites do not have preference for world final slots. If the
host team’s score is very high and is very close to the WF
qualifying line, and if there is slot available, Asia Director may
at his discretion provides preferences to these host
teams.
(d)
Some contest sites may
have special constraints embedded in university rankings. After
removing the special constraints of a contest site such as medal
award teams and preference teams, etc. from university rankings,
the resulting “WF-Slots Rankings” will be used for allocating WF
teams.
(e) Special
teams:
Teams with one or two members or high school teams are
considered as special teams. RCD may allow their competition in the
contest. These special teams are not allowed to be ranked, and are
not allowed to be advanced to next level of contests. The high
school teams are not allowed to register in ICPC registration
system.
2. The following defines the Contest Site Participation
Scores of the year:
The final Contest Site
participation scores of the year are the weighted average of
80% for the on-site participation score and 20% for the
online participation scores. The calculation of both
participation scores (tier 2 and tier 3) will be using the same
formula and be calculated separately as in the following items (a)
- (e).
(a)
The contest site initial participation
scores for both on-site and online:
Counting for site participation initial scores will only
count teams accepted and solving at least one problem in the first
round online sub-contests and in Asia Regional On-site contests
separately. The counting will count only those ranked teams who
solves at least one problem in ICPC contest sites.
The fake teams will be removed by applying “accepted team
solving at least one problem”.
(b)
The Site Reduction Factors:
Applying reduction factor will remove the double counting on
double contest sites’ registrations to achieve fairness for all
sites.
The example of Site Reduction Factor for double registration:
If the number of students with double
registration is 40% in Mainland China or in India, for example,
then the reduction factor for all China sites (or India sites) will
be 0.8 = (0.6 + 0.6+ 0.4) / 2.The site or sub-site participation
score is the result of initial score multiplied by the reduction
factor.
(c)
To avoid the WF teams from being clustered in a few contest
sites, the number of schools will be reduced to 0.5 point in
counting for all teams beyond the first 200 schools in a contest
site. And the number of second plus teams will be reduced to 0.25
point for all second plus teams beyond the first 400
teams.
(d)
Contest Site Participation Scores for both
on-site and online:
The 70-25-5 weighed formula will be applied to the site
participation score calculation:
70% for the Total number of distinct universities/schools from
item (c) above;
25% for the total number of distinct teams beyond the first team
from item (c);
and 5% for the total number of teams in the provincial and
national (non-Asia host) contests.
The contest site participation score will be the sum of 70-25-5
formula for both the the on-site and the online
scores separately.
(e) The final
Contest Site participation scores of the year are the weighted
average of 80% for the on-site participation score and 20%
for the online participation scores of the same year.
For 2017 contest year, WF slots
allocation will be based on the even average of 2017 participation
final score and 2016 participation final score using the same
calculation as in the above items (a) - (d).
(f) The teams advanced to WF are
based on the Asia Regional university ranking or the Asia
WF-Slots ranking of the 2017 Asia on-site
Regionals.
3. WF slots allocation and Administrative
sub-regions
(a)
Each university fielding a team that wins a
Site Contest will advance the team to the World Finals if the
Contest Site is in the team’s home administrative
Sub-region. In the event that a university
qualifies for more than one Site Contest in the home sub-region,
the university must decide only one team to represent the
university to the World Finals. In any situation, a university can
send only one qualified team to the WF.
(b) These WF slots for Asia were determined by
ICPC headquarter consisting of participation (basic) and bonus
slots. For example 2016 WF, the participation/basic slots for Asia
for 2016 WF were 36, a fixed number. (Note that the distribution of
these slots in the 2016 WF was 30:30:36 in the world. Asian
students and coaches should appreciate the recognition from
Headquarter for Asia ICPC development with the highest number 36.)
Asia Director in turn used the guidelines in next
several items to allocate WF slots to each Asia sub-region and to
each Asia contest site. (Please refer to the
posting about WF slots allocation formula from ICPC
headquarter:)
http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/s/blog_b946da100101pu86.html?vt=4
(c) The medal
award bonus slots for 2018 WF will be assigned to universities
whose teams had received medal awards in 2017 WF, provided that
these universities earned a university ranking of 10 or better in
any 2017 Asia Regional . For example, please refer to 2017 WF
teams allocation:
http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/s/blog_b946da100102x87h.html?vt=4
(d)
There may be additional bonus
slots for Asia Region for 2018 WF. For example, in 2017 WF,
These slots included bonus slots designated by ICPC Executive
Director (2 slots) , by ICPC Deputy Executive Director (1) , and by
Asia Director (2). (Note that: 2 WF slots designated by ICPC
Executive Director were for WF host university , host country and
/or WF Host City or Province.)
(e)
Distribution of other remaining participation slots for 2017
WF:
Asia Director may elect to have Asia
Associate Directors for each sub-region to make recommendation of
teams to be advanced to WF 2018 according to the following
guidelines used in WF 2017 allocation and the new resolutions been
adopted and posted .
For example, in 2017 WF, Asia
has 38 participation slots available, they are divided
into two parts:
(1) 35 participation slots:
These slots were distributed to three administrative
sub-regions according to the contest site participation scores
formula specified in item (III.E.2) The
rounding off of participation scores might end up to 32 or 34
slots. The one less or one more slot would be applied to the next
item of the “Other Remaining 3 Slots.”
(2) The other remaining 3 participation
slots:
These 3 (or 2-4) slots were Asia Performance slots and
were distributed to three sub-regions. The 3 sub-regions would be
ranked by the average of the total number of problems solved in
2017 WF excluding the medal award team, but including the honorable
mentioned teams.
The allocation of the remaining 3 or 2-4 slots to the
three sub-regions by ranking from top to bottom was one of the
following: 1:1:0, 2:1:0, or 2:2:0.
(f) Once the number of
slots to each sub-region is decided, the slots will be distributed
to contest sites in the sub-region. The following guidelines will
be observed when distributing slots to each contest site in the
sub-region:
(1) The East
Continent sub-region will use the Site participation score and the
China resolution posted in the Asia Blog and using the 2017 Asia
Regionals rankings. The China resolution can be found at:
http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/s/blog_b946da100102wsfh.html?vt=4
(2)
The Pacific and Southeast Peninsula sub-region had
adopted a new resolution to promote teams to WF from each site in
PSP. The Resolution can be browsed at
http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/s/blog_b946da100102wyn0.html?vt=4
which includes the PSP Under-representation Resolutions
and a specil formula.
(3)
West Continent Sub-region
Revised Site Scores resolutions:
The revised contest site score of each site in WC is
calculated as the weighted average of the following two items:
65% of 2017 combined Asia Regional site
scores and 35% of 2017 WF average of numbers of problems solved by
each site or each country.
WF slots allocation in India is then using the formula
specified by India Resolutions which can be browsed
at:
http://blog.sina.cn/dpool/blog/s/blog_b946da100102wvei.html?vt=4
(g) Preference Teams
awarded by RCD’s or by Asia Director:
(1) All China sites
will award 2017 China hosting
universities WF slots
if the host team can win a
ranking of 10 or better in other contest sites in China. (Please
refer to China resolution in the Asia
blog.)
(2) PSP adopts
preference team for the under-represented country (Please see item
III.E.3.f.(2). )
(3) No preference
team resolutions adopted in WC
sub-region.
(4) There may be additional bonus or
preference slots designated by ICPC Executive Director, by ICPC
Deputy Director, and by Asia Director. If the
additional bonus slots are available from Headquarter, Asia
Director may award those slots to those universities with great
contribution to Asia ICPC development providing the team from those
universities win a university ranking of 15 or better in any Asia
Regional contest. If the available slots can
not accommodate all preference teams, the number of times in
hosting Asia Regional contests, the year the university was in the
WF last time, and etc. will be used for deciding the university
preference to win the WF slots. Other factors such as geographic
balance may also be put into consideration for selecting Asia
Director's preference teams.
(h)
The WF slot shares of any sub-region can not be
used by teams from another sub-region without advance approval for
preference teams by the contest site steering committee and by Asia
Director.
4. Absence in WF by an advancing team
It is the team’s obligation to do everything to attend World
Finals once the team has accepted the WF invitation. If the
advancing team can not participate the WF for any reasons including
visa issue, examination schedule conflict, financial difficulty or
student job status, the team must inform ICPC headquarter manager
and Asia Director at least two months before the WF. Failing to do
so, the team’s home university will be penalized that the
university will be prohibited from sending team to WF for the next
two years. This allows Asia Director to have enough time to obtain
a replacement team. (No team member replacement can be accepted.)
It is very important for all team members to take care of the
passport, visa, school issue, job situation, and travel problem as
early as possible. This rule will be strictly enforced.
5. Postponing the Asia Regional
contest
The postponement of any Asia Regional Contest must be approved
by Asia Director. This rule is applicable to any
reason of postponement.
If the approved new contest date is set after Dec 31 and
before Jan 15 of the following year, the postponed site will
receive only one WF team slot. The only one
selected WF team from this site will be the
first team from this site ranking after removing all universities
who already have teams being advanced to WF
from other Asia sites. If the postponed date is
scheduled after Jan 15, the contest will be cancelled or no WF team
will be allocated for this site.
6. Unforseen Situations
There may be some unforeseen situations or cases not included
in these rules of ACM-ICPC 2017 Specific Asia Regional Rules. If
the situation does occur, Asia Director will use his best judgment
and professional practice to make the fairest decisions for the
solutions.
F.Rules on Contest Environment
Some contest judging software (e,g, PC Square or other judging
software) will be provided from ACM-ICPC website
http://www.ecs.csus.edu/pc2/pc2code.html
Other judging software may be used. But the advance announcement
by the Site Director is required.
IV.Other Administrative Items
A. Submitting documents.
At the end of the contest, each Regional Site Director is
required to submit the following items to ICPC web site within one
week after the contest:
1. Contest Ranking: University names, problems solved, and time
consumed.
2. Contest Problems set.
3. Each Regional Site Director is
required to enter the names of RCD, Coordinator, Judges, Contest
Problems creators/setters and other contest staff to ICPC Staff
list in ICPC web site.
4. Required documents to be submitted for provincials,
nationals, and Invitationals are same.
B. Funding, Industrial Sponsorships, ICPC Integrity and
Acknowledgement.
1. JetBrains is the ICPC Global Programming Toll
sponsor
(a) JetBrains has
provided via ICPC Foundation
to support part
of the regional contest activities for each Asia Regional
site.
(b) The Asia Regional Contests are self
supporting for each contest site. Each Regional Contest Site
Director is responsible for obtaining financial support from local
industries, government entities, and universities in addition to
ICPC Foundation-Jetbrains.
(c)
As an ACM ICPC leader, RCD’s are responsible
for compliance with the ACM-ICPC sponsorship requirements.
Jetbrains is the primary global Programming Toll sponsor. All
printed materials must clearly display that fact. All printed
goods, such as T-shirts, bags, and signage, and all contest
materials must clearly display that fact, listing ICPC
Foundation-Jetbrains first.
2. ICPC Integrity
(a)
ICPC autonomy requires keeping the ACM -ICPC
Policies and Procedures and the ICPC Rules in spirit and well as in
word. The ACM -ICPC must control the integrity of all ICPC
contests. Asia Director cannot approve any ACM-ICPC Asia contests
from becoming the external Third Party (ETP) contests. Individuals
are welcome in helping the contest in the committee under RCD’s
management. RCD must manage the committees and individual
volunteers, not in other opposite direction. Individuals help RCD
as individuals. RCD’s manage the committees and individual
volunteers. Volunteers do not manage RCD’s.
(b) In order to
protect ICPC academic integrity and ICPC Semi-autonomous nature,
most RCD’s and all new RCD’s (if requested by Asia Director), are
required to sign the “ICPC Integrity Acknowledge Statement”to
prevent any external third party (ETP) from running ICPC
activities, controlling and interrupting the RCD’s in executing the
ICPC Asia Regional hosting functions. (See Appendix One for
Integrity Statement.)
V. Appendices
A. Appendix One: ICPC Academic
Integrity and Autonomy Statement:
ACM-ICPC Asia Sites Academic Integrity
and Autonomy Confirmation
All RCD’s especially new
RCD’s must understand and preserve the ICPC Integrity and
Autonomous Spirit and sign the“ICPC Integrity and Autonomy
Confirmation Statement' :
(Please review the two paragraphs in item (IV.B.1.a)
and item (IV.B.1.b) above for integrity and
autonomy.)
1. ____________ (RCD signature 1 for the following statements
:)
I guarantee that any link in
the local web pages to a non-ICPC entity or organization must be
approved by Asia Director. I will mantain the integrity of the
ACM-ICPC contest. I guarantee my contest will be 100%
ACM-ICPC activities. If I receive an Industrial support fund, I
understand I will allow a link to Industry Support and I will allow
their advertisement for their services, activities and recruiting.
The fund must come to us directly from industries and can not thru
any external Third Part (ETP). I will not allow any
external Third Party (ETP) to run or control our own contest
activities.
I guarantee that the contest problems setter/creator or
volunteers must be organized under my contest committee and under
my management. If paying them is necessary, they will be paid thru
our contest budget, not through any external Third Party
(ETP).
I understand that, if I violate the integrity of the ACM-ICPC
contests listed above, my contest site will be cancelled or my
contest site will not advance teams to the World
Finals.
2. If RCD is not in charge of contest operation and
coordination, please add the second person who is in charge of
operation and coordination and put his/her signature
here:
Additional Second person’s Signature 2: _____________________
Date: ___________
Supervisor’s (Dean or Associate Dean) Signature 3:
_____________Date: ___________
(Please send in Adobe pdf format with your (and possibly 2nd
and 3rd person’s) signature to Asia Director. Do not
send in iphone like jpg format.)
(The End)
