Yesterday I competed in the regional ACM programming contest. There were 85 teams competing in our region. Here is the final ranking for the top five places:
1) Stanford
2) Stanford
3) University of California, Berkeley
4) UBC ^
5) UBC *
This was really frustrating because only two teams advance from a region to the world final (which is in Sweden this year). Since only one team can advance per university, UBC was only one spot away from advancing. There is actually still a chance that UBC might get to advance however, since there is a wildcard slot. I was on the UBC * team. We were ridiculously close to solving another problem in the last few minutes. If we had solved it, we would have jumped to 2nd place. We made a submission with about two minutes left which failed because it took too long to execute. However, with a minor modification to the code (just one or two lines) our solution probably would have run under the time limit. Both of my teammates were doing really well during the contest and did the majority of the work. They will both be at UBC next year, so I'm sure that their team will do really well at the next regional. Here were the results from last year's regional:
1) UBC ^
2) UBC *
3) Stanford
4) Simon Fraser University
5) University of California, Berkeley
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Oh, I was on one of the Berkeley teams =P. The 3rd place team literally submitted a problem in the last second.
The scores have been released at: http://cm2prod.baylor.edu/public/static/report/publicStandings.jsf?_afPfm=a350f73
Link seems to have died. Here is another link: http://www.acmicpc-pacnw.org/Standings/2008.htm
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