CCC 05

[Drakain Zeil]

It's coming around the 22nd, who's going to write it? (I didn't see any other topics on this, if there is close this)

[zylum]

i thought its march 1st... hopefully this time i make stage 2...

[Martin]

Not me. I don't qualify.

[Drakain Zeil]

zylum wrote:

i thought its march 1st... hopefully this time i make stage 2...

I have the papers from the past few years, back to '01, they all seem to be the last Tuesday of every Febuary.

[zylum]

http://contest-cemc.uwaterloo.ca/ccc/

tuesday march 1st 2005

[Drakain Zeil]

I blame the leap year

[thegoose]

It's definitely March the 1st.
We also have a case of foreign invasion this year. See: http://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/ccc/2005_2/HongKong.shtml
GO CANADA! (anybody want to place bets?)

[bugzpodder]

i know one of the HK guys who is REALLY REALLY GOOD and if he participates, i think he will beat everyone in Canada. I will try to ask him to participate, thanks Richard for the link.

[Tony]

martin wrote:

Not me. I don't qualify.

A lot of us don't. Could somebody make sure to keep a copy of the questions and post them up here after the contest?

[thegoose]

bugzpodder wrote:

i know one of the HK guys who is REALLY REALLY GOOD and if he participates, i think he will beat everyone in Canada.

Bring it on. For the record, we owned them at the IOI. (420,360,300,290):(405,305,NM,NM), NM=no medal

tony wrote:

Could somebody make sure to keep a copy of the questions and post them up here after the contest?

Sure...I'll take care of that. Do you also want solutions?

[Tony]

thegoose wrote:

tony wrote:

Could somebody make sure to keep a copy of the questions and post them up here after the contest?

Sure...I'll take care of that. Do you also want solutions?

Thx. Could somebody else keep this in mind for the redundancy though?

And yeah - solutions too, but separate. I want users to be able to try the problems out on their own, and submit/discuss different approaches to the problems.

[bugzpodder]

thegoose wrote:

bugzpodder wrote:

i know one of the HK guys who is REALLY REALLY GOOD and if he participates, i think he will beat everyone in Canada.

Bring it on. For the record, we owned them at the IOI. (420,360,300,290):(405,305,NM,NM), NM=no medal

wow! who got 420?? must be a genious!!

[Aidin Kashigar]

bugzpodder wrote:

wow! who got 420?? must be a genious!!

lol. as if you haven't seen the IOI scores before.

so, any predictions on the last <senior> problem this year?

[Tony]

well if the contest is anything like last year's, you'd have to ask your teacher and the guy next to you in an attempt to understand the question

and my guess is: recursive algorithm

[thegoose]

tony wrote:

and my guess is: recursive algorithm

Doubt they'll put pruning, since the solution will either a). takes too much skill. b). be too straight foward. c). solvable using a random algorithm.
Betting on 4 being graphic theory (not graphics) and 5 being DP again. They might put 2-SAT/flow but I don't think Gord will be that evil (at least not on stage 1).