Regional Contest at UM Ann Arbor
On October 31st, University of Michigan Ann Arbor hosted their 3rd ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest.
ACM ICPC is a distributed online event sponsored by IBM. This time we have had four distributed contest sites: Cincinnati Ohio, McMaster Site Ontario, Youngstown Ohio, and UM Ann Arbor. There was a total of 123 teams drawn from 65 colleges and universities.
I was at the UM site serving as an assistant site director, assistant system administrator and assistant coach for Ann Arbor teams. I have also served as an official/unofficial photographer. It was a great time!
My own alma mater UM-Dearborn campus had two teams represented, where each team had solved 2 of the problems, which is quite a feat! Only 29 out of 123 teams have solved 3 or more problems.
You may view the Problem Set.
After 5 grueling hours, Ann Arbor top team "Victors" have solved all 8 problems with time to spare! They came in 2nd in the region. This meant that they are going to Harbin, China! To participate in the World Finals!
But was I going ? This question remained open. My status of going as an assistant coach was unclear.