The ACM Mid-Atlantic USA Regional Contest this year in on Nov. 10th. Our region includes Colleges and Universities from New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. There are roughly 170 teams that will compete at multiple locations in the Mid-Atlantic region. Locally, some of the universities that participate include Elon, Wake Forest, A&T, Winston-Salem State, UNCG, App State, Duke, UNC, and NCSU. We typically take 4 teams to the Duke University Site. Rules are simple, each team consists of 3 students, one computer, 10 problems, 5 hours - the team that solves the most problems wins. There will be practice sessions weekly and a couple of local competions before the contest. Weekly practice sessions are on TBA until we decide to quit. Starting soon.

• Any one can participate freshmen to seniors.
• We have room for 12 students, 4 teams. One team is generally reserved for freshmen.
• We pay for the experience, $135/team.
• We need to select teamnames to register NOW, team members can be decided later. Past team names include:
  • Coder Queue-Ties
  • High Point Hackers
  • camel_case
  • nodes nodes nodes
  • ; expceted
  • Rabid Penguins
• Historically, the freshman team has yet to fail me. They always score at least one correct solution.
• Major practice session on Oct 6th - 12-5PM in the computer lab - CH-149. Create an account at Kattis.
• A contest site that maintains a problem set from past ACM ACM-ICPC Live Archive. Goto the North America - Mid Atlantic region. You will need an account here as well.
• Each contestant should attempt to solve as many problems as possible between now an the contest date Nov 11th.
• Here is another programming contest practice site: www.spoj.pl. Log-on and try out Problem #1.
• Another good programming contest practice site is International Web site
• Report solutions to Mr. Shore. We will maintain the solved problem list below.

1. Easy Problems - Practice on 9-6
• Hello World!
• Take Two Stones
• Reversed Binary Digits
• No Duplicates
• Solving for carrots
• R2
• Quadrant Selection
• Progressive Scramble
• Quick Brown Fox
• Dice Game
• Odd Gnome
• Cooking Water - 2.0
• Islands - search for Islands3 to find it - 2.5
• Big Truck - 2.5
• Bingo Ties - 7.9
• Das Blinkenlights - 1.8
• Ebony and Ivory - 5.5
• Froggie - 7.6
• Fruit Slicer - 8.6
• LCM Tree - 8.8
• Left and Right - 5.0
• Monitoring Ski Paths - 8.1
• Peg Game for Two - 3.7
• Run-Length Encoding, Run! - 1.5
• Superdoku - 8.4
• Triangular Clouds - 9.0
2. Past Problems
• 1 - Stuck In A Time Loop
• 2 - Quick Brown Fox
• 3 - Bijele
• 4 - Simon Says
• 5 - Alphabet Spam

Below is a list of students that have expressed an interest or have participated in previous contests. If your name is not in the list, and you want to be in the list or taken out, please let me know.

1. Kyle Wiseman, 1
2. Sully Alsaid, 2
3. Paul Jesukiewicz, 1
4. Ryan Felton, 1
5. Joe Davidson, 4
6. Dax Loy, 3
7. Alex Wirth
8. Justin Weiss
9. Cam Corso
10. Matthew Olker
11. Isaac Shore
12. Kyle Hoffpauir
13. Jackson Inchalik
14. Tara Jue
15. Kelsey Quinn
16. Chris Finlan

• From the ACM-ACPC Live Archive
  • 2008 ACM Regional Contest - 4192, 4197, 4193, 4199, 4195 (listed in increasing order of difficulty based on the number of teams that correctly solved the problem) Winning team solved 7, our best got 3 (38th overall), Elon got 2( 75th).
  • 2007 ACM Regional Contest - 3919, 3926, 3920, 3922, 3923 (listed in increasing order of difficulty based on the number of teams that correctly solved the problem) Winning team solved 4, our best got 2 (19th overall), Elon got 2 (28th).
  • 2006 ACM Regional Contest - 3579, 3615, 3580, 3614, 3612, 3613 (listed in increasing order of difficulty based on the number of teams that correctly solved the problem) Winning team solved 5, our best got 2 (25th overall), Elon got 2 (21st).
  • 2005 ACM Regional Contest - 3426, 3429, 3431, 3428, 3432, 3433, 3430 (listed in increasing order of difficulty based on the number of teams that correctly solved the problem) Winning team solved 5, our best got 2 (44th overall), Elon got 2 (38th).
• From the Sphere Online Judge site.
  • 123, 902, 261, 1026, 2530