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Outline

The 2019 KAIST RUN Spring Contest will be held on May 1st! Participants in this competition will solve about 10 algorithm problems for 4 hours individually. The compeititon will take place on Tuesday, May 1st, at N1 room 102, with Baekjoon Online Judge platform. Online open contest (mirror) will be held simultaneously.

Schedule

  • At April 26th (Sun) 23:59, the registration form will be closed. You can find the form in the bottom of this page.
  • On May 1st (Wed), the competition will be held on N1 102. You must come to the contest area in order to participate.
  • Participants must complete the on-site registration before 18:00 pm on the date of competition.
    Competition day schedule
    18:00-18:30 | Competition guidance and environment setting
    18:30-22:30 | Competition
    22:30-23:00 | Commentary, Awards ceremony, etc,.
    

Support

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

Prizes

300k KRW cash prize in total will be given.

There are special prizes for best-performing 2 women, 2 foreign students. If one gets the cash prize, one is ineligible to get a special prize. There will be more special prizes given by some criterion.

Rules

  • Only KAIST students, including graduate students, exchange students, etc., can participate.
  • You can only participate individually.
  • Since no laptop will be provided, you must bring your own laptop to the contest area.
  • Participants must complete the on-site registration before 18:30 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.

  • Using any pre-written code or prints before contest is NOT allowed.
  • Other unspecified situations are handled by competition operators’ decision.

Contest details

About 10 algorithm problems will be presented. Each problem consists of 1 or more subtask(s), and each subtask is worth certain fixed number of points. Each subtask consists of several test data, and points for the subtask are awarded if and only if every test data is passed. The total number of points for each problem is 100 points.

Each participant’s ranking is determined in the following way.

Penalty time = (Duration from contest start to last submission that increased points)
Ranking = (# of participants with higher points) + (# of participants with same points and lower penalty time) + 1

On-site details

  • Simple snacks are provided during the competition.
  • We provide a printout of the whole problemset. The language is English.
  • Printing is not supported.

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 to read those.
  • Help for judge
  • Help for language

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


Registration