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The 9th KAIST ICPC Mock Competition will be held on October 3rd!

Participants in this competition will solve about 12 algorithm problems for 5 hours with a team of 3 members. The competition will take place on Thursday, October 3rd, at N1 room 102, with Baekjoon Online Judge platform. Online open contest (mirror) will be held simultaneously.

Schedule

  • October 1st (Tue) 23:59: The registration form will be closed. You can find the form at the bottom of this page.
  • October 3rd (Thu): The competition will be held on N1 102. All team members must come to the contest area to participate in the contest.
  • Participants must complete the on-site registration before 1:30 pm on the date of the competition. 
    Competition day schedule
13:30-14:00 | Competition guidance and environment setting
14:00-19:00 | Competition
19:00-19:50 | Seminar from sponsors(TBD), Problem solutions
19:50- | Awards ceremony

Sponsorship

This contest is sponsored by Devsisters, Naver D2, Jane Street and Startlink.

Prizes

The following prizes are sponsored by DEVSISTERS.

  • 1st place: Prize worth 1000k KRW
  • 2nd place: Prize worth 700k KRW
  • 3rd place: Prize worth 400k KRW
  • Special prize (2 teams): Prize worth 200k KRW. Awarded with special criteria different from rank

There are souvenirs for every team.

Rules

  • Only KAIST students, including graduate students, exchange students, etc., can participate.
  • You can only participate in one team of three students.
  • You must bring your own laptop to the contest area.
    • You might need to use cloud desktop services. In that case, we will tell you by email so that you could know what to do.
  • You can use at most one electronic device during the contest. If you have some reason to use other electronic devices, please tell us in the registration form.
  • Participants must complete the on-site registration before 13:30 on the date of the competition.
  • The available languages will include C, C++, Java, Python, and Kotlin.
  • Using the Internet is prohibited during the competition, except for submitting source codes in Baekjoon Online Judge and accessing language reference sites. Here are examples of allowed reference sites. 
    C/C++: http://en.cppreference.com/w/
Java: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/
Python: https://docs.python.org/3/
Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/

    Accessing to the reference site for other versions of the same language is also allowed.

  • Each team can bring up to 25 pages of printed A4-sized reference materials
  • Using any pre-written code is NOT allowed.
  • Scoring is done according to the ICPC Regional Rules. (Refer to the section “Scoring of a Regional Contest”)
  • Organizers have the right to make decisions to situations not covered in this section.

On-site details

  • Simple snacks are provided during the competition.
  • We provide a printout of the whole problemset. The language is English.
  • Printing may be supported, but we are not sure. We will send details by e-mail.

Scoring Environment

  • The competition will be held through the ‘Contest’ tab of Baekjoon Online Judge. It is recommended participants familiarize themselves with the website beforehand.
  • Here are documents for the website. You can use any translator (ex. Google Translate) to read those.

For other inquiries, please contact 010-2068-4096 or [email protected]

Registration