we got laptop bags and a book for coming second at boardwide, nothing at regionals, and nothing at finals (we didn't win though, not even close lol). plus pizza
Computer Science Canada Ecoo |
| Author: | mirhagk [ Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Ecoo |
Hey guys I'm about to go compete in the ECOO competition. My teacher doesn't know much about it... I was wondering if there's any prizes or anything for getting first |
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| Author: | A.J [ Mon Mar 29, 2010 9:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
Yes there is. I believe that the top two teams in the finals (so, after you qualify from boardwide and regional contests to the finals), you get some amount of money... I believe Mr.McKenzie will be able to reply with a better and more certain answer... |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
we got laptop bags and a book for coming second at boardwide, nothing at regionals, and nothing at finals (we didn't win though, not even close lol). plus pizza |
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| Author: | A.J [ Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
You get prizes for winning at Regionals, and monetary prizes at finals (for top 3, I think). |
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| Author: | McKenzie [ Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
At finals there are Future Shop / Best Buy gift certificates for the top three teams (300,200,100 per member) as well as a number of door prizes (50 each.) At regionals there are some token prizes for the top teams in the region as well as door prizes. They change from year to year based on what we can beg from various places. |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
wow o.O Brian, you're going down : P |
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| Author: | A.J [ Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
Well..if I wasn't bummed out right now, I would say something like: "You have to go through me first"..but then again, I am bummed out right now...so yea... |
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| Author: | unoho [ Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
ahhh ECOO...tht was a pretty good event (mostly cuz of free food )
lol..my group didn't do too well but other team from my school did really good 
and i still remember those donmills kids..they finished up the whole thing in like 45 mins lol |
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| Author: | Cyril [ Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
Since Brian is too modest to say it, I will: It was because they used Visual C++ on a laptop they weren't used to. Please look up to the Woburn people, and not us. >_> |
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| Author: | A.J [ Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
We have yet to receive the boardwide contest from Mr.McKenzie. He is probably busy with things. Also, I don't think we can make the April 3rd deadline...as registration itself opened day before yesterday. Off Topic: What's with the uunicorns (ha, take that)?.... |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
woohoo, qualified first for regionals! see you at Western |
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| Author: | Insectoid [ Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
Western is in London isn't it? That's prolly where I'm going (I know I'm going to London somewhere). |
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| Author: | bbi5291 [ Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RE:Ecoo |
Cyril @ Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:48 pm wrote: Since Brian is too modest to say it, I will:
OK, to clarify: DMCI beat us by 12 points. 2 were time points, the other 10 were due to resubmission of the cipher question. I was not the one coding, but I was spotting for the person who was coding, and it was such a trivial mistake that I must take half the blame, due to not having caught it.
It was because they used Visual C++ on a laptop they weren't used to. Please look up to the Woburn people, and not us. >_> The time points were indeed due to some stupid things; there was a key to the left of Ctrl on the laptop, which impeded attempts to copy-and-paste; there was project overhead associated with Visual C++; and finally, the output format on the tile question was ideally suited to printf, but I was forced to use cout instead because %lld doesn't work properly on Visual C++. Also, I am not that modest. I still claim my team is the strongest overall, although DMCI is almost certainly second. Vincent Massey is weak this year; their best coder (Aurick Qiao) did not even make stage 2 last year. (Unless there is someone left at Massey I am forgetting.) |
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| Author: | Insectoid [ Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
Was that error as trivial as forgetting to rename the input file/switching from 1 test case to 5? I've done that before (which directly led to myself not making regionals last year). |
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| Author: | McKenzie [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RE:Ecoo |
bbi5291 @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:59 pm wrote: Vincent Massey is weak this year; their best coder (Aurick Qiao) did not even make stage 2 last year. (Unless there is someone left at Massey I am forgetting.)
Vincent Massey has plenty of very strong programmers, take a look at the DWITE rankings if you are not convinced. Keep in mind no one from my school wrote the last DWITE because I ran the ECOO regionals the same day. |
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| Author: | A.J [ Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
Surely, Vincent Massey does have good programmers, however DWITE isn't really a contest one should look at to compare CS skills (I mean, it is a great contest, good for teamwork building and all, and I like the questions, but speed usually determines the winner). Contests like USACO, or TopCoder probably shows more of a person's skill, and I believe that there are people from Vincent Massey doing well in all of the aforementioned contests. I believe that one should go into a contest assuming that every school is a force to be reckoned with, and no assumption based on where you think you might end up (or whom you think you might have to take down) should be made. Merely try your best, always. |
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| Author: | McKenzie [ Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
Well, given that this is the ECOO thread, speed is one of the main issues. |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Mon Apr 05, 2010 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
so the ECOO site says regionals are april 25th. Mr. McKenzie, can you confirm this? |
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| Author: | McKenzie [ Mon Apr 05, 2010 1:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
The East and West are April 17th, and Central is April 24th. |
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| Author: | saltpro15 [ Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Ecoo |
hmm, zero-impact has informed me that there's a meeting at U of T april 17th about admitted students, and that would mean we're a team member short... |
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