Announcement

Mock DWITE contest

by bbi5291 on Sep 26, 2009 - 10:27:54 pm UTC
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On Saturday September the 26th, from 3:15 PM to 6:15 PM, we are hosting a mock DWITE contest. The problems, test data, and possibly analyses will be provided by Amlesh Jaykumar of Waterloo Collegiate Institute (amleshjk).

I have posted an invitation on the Computer Science Canada forums. This contest will be open to everybody. The primary purpose of this contest is to test our bandwidth (and other things, such as speed of database access). It is altogether possible that the contest will be a total failure; if this happens then it will not be rated. (It will also not be rated if A.J.'s problems or test data turn out to be less than satisfactory, but I'm pretty sure he'll do a good job.)

Anyway, if you want to participate, just treat it like all of the other contests we have done so far - you know what to do.

Obviously, the contest will have ECOO/DWITE scoring style - each problem is worth 100 points, you get two submissions per problem, you get a time bonus point for every five minute interval left before the end of the contest (at the time of submission) provided that you got at least one test case right, and you get 10 bonus points for your first submission provided that you got all test cases right.

Comments (Search)

"The primary purpose of this contest is to test our bandwidth (and other things, such as speed of database access)."

I think your bandwidth is good enough even if all of the users who actually participated send a DoS attack...

The PEG needs more attention... I mean, CS needs more attention...... =(


Yes, but what if, like the real DWITE, we had had hundreds of participants?
That's what I would've liked to test, but unfortunately hardly anyone participated. Maybe next time.

same day as Google Code Jam Round 2...

Yes, but there is no actual time overlap between the two. Code Jam starts at noon in my time zone and ends at 2:30; the mock DWITE starts at 3:15.