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South Africa 2015

The 17th South African ACM ICPC regional will take place on 24 October 2015 at the following sites: Angola (in 2016), Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Mauritius (tbc), Niger, Nigeria (tbc), Togo and South Africa (with sites in Cape Town, Grahamstown, Pietermaritzburg and Pretoria).

Rules

The reference rules are available on the ACM's contest web site. All team members must bring valid student identification and coaches must be prepared to vouch for the team members' student status. The following are region-specific localisations of the rules:

  1. We will take a baccalaureate degree to be a four-year Honours degree. As such, the Honours year does not count as post-graduate study (a graduate degree, in American terminology), but rather as part of your bachelor's degree (undergraduate).
  2. Teams must be populated from a single university and must have a coach who is a faculty member or is appointed by the faculty member to act on the faculty member's behalf.
  3. The contest will last five(5) hours (not counting additional activities, which will be mandatory to qualify).
  4. There will be at least six(6) problems to be solved.
  5. Multiple teams may be entered by any given university. In the event that a location is oversubscribed (full), universities may be asked to prioritise their teams.
  6. Languages to be used will be C, C++ and Java.
  7. All contestants will be programming in a Unix (Linux) environment. This is to keep in line with the software used at the world finals.

Software Versions of Markers
OS: Ubuntu (64-bit)
Languages: Java 1.8.0_45, C/C++ (GCC 5.1.0)

Rules and Manuals
2015 Contest Rules
Abacus Manual

Schedule

Time (*) Event
9:00 Registration
9:15 Registered teams move to the competition area
Welcome
Contest rules, Abacus manual and testing of logins
9:30 Mock Contest begins
10:00 Mock Contest ends
10:30 2015 South African regional begins
15:30 2015 South African regional ends
+-16:00 Celebration
(*) All times are given in UTC+2

Schedule with time zones.

Problems

The problem set for the 2015 South African regional contest will be posted after the contest has started.

Mock Contest Problems 2015
Mock contest problems for 2015 are here.
Contest Problems 2015
2015 contest problems are availabe here.

Standings

The final standings for the 2015 contest will be published after a full audit of the results has been completed.
Standings for the duration of the contest (except the last hour) can be found here.
Final standings according to rank order are available here. Standings per site are given here.

Photos

Photos received from the sites are here.