Contest Schedule

ACM NCNA Contest Schedule

The 2019 ACM North Central North America
Regional Programming Contest

Contest Schedule

Try to register online at the ACM Regional Contest web site by October 14, 2019 which is the end of Early Registration. Up to this date, the priority of the sites is to maximize the number of schools represented, and thus may restrict the number of teams per school in order to ensure this. Following this date, sites may decide to accept additional teams per school, up to their capacity.

If you must register after October 9, 2018, a late fee of $10 (US) per person on top the registration fee of $25 per person will be assessed at the time the team is accepted by the site. (Do not pay until your team is accepted!) Note that the late fee is assessed only if registration is late, not if acceptance by the site is delayed.

Before November 3, 2019, it is suggested to contact the director of the site at which your team will participate to obtain any site-specific information and a pre/post contest activity schedule.

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Contest Day (November 9, 2019) Activities

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM ARRIVAL AND CHECK-IN
Teams arrive and report to the site director. It is suggested that access to computers for practice be permitted during this time. Ideally a simple sample problem will be posed, and teams will have an opportunity to submit solutions to the sample problem for judging.
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM CONTESTANTS' MEETING
Site Director meets with the teams to review the rules and discuss site specific policies.
10:45 AM - 12:00 Noon BRUNCH - PRACTICE - TAKE YOUR STATIONS
Time for lunch of some sort and more practice. Teams halt practice around 11:45 AM. Sealed contest sets are distributed to the teams.
12:00 Noon CONTEST BEGINS
Contestants open the contest question packets, boot up their machines (according to whatever procedure the site has), Log in to Kattis, and begin.
4:45 PM 15-MINUTE WARNING
Contestants are notified that the contest will end in 15 minutes.
5:00 PM CONTEST ENDS
Final judging requests must have arrived prior to 5:00 PM.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM REGIONAL RESULTS
Kattis will have preliminary results for the region as well as the sites. Regional results remain unofficial until they are verified by the Regional Head Judge and any appeals have been decided.