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 Friday, February 26th, 2021     KATTIS PRACTICE

05:00PM - 11:59PM

continued on Saturday

Kattis Familiarization Contest Available
https://ncna20.kattis.com/
Note: you will need to use the Kattis ID's tied to the email you used to 

For problem set help: post a clarification question
For technical help: email ncna.regional at gmail dot com

Saturday, February 27, 2021 CONTEST DAY

Registered Teams (see the Universal Registration Site)

continued from Friday

00:00AM - 12:30PM

Kattis Familiarization Contest Available
https://ncna20.kattis.com/
Note: you will need to use the Kattis ID's tied to the email you used to registered for the regional.

For problem set help: post a clarification question
For technical help before 11am: email ncna.regional at gmail dot com

For technical help AFTER 11am: join zoom help room.
Team-Help Zoom: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/92589668228

• That each of your tam members can log into the practice contest, at the same time.
• That you can make a submission in each of the programing languages you intend to use.
• That each team member can make a submission (You can submit on a problem you have already solved if you wish.)
• That each team member can submit clarifications, and that you can all see the responses to those clarifications.
• That you can connect to the zoom meeting we have set up for students to connect to, if they have issues and can't get the clarifications system to work.

Opening Ceremonies 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2379986585 
This will need a passcode (which has been provided by email)

Regional Competition  -  NCNA_2020.pdf
https://ncna20.kattis.com/
Note: you will need to use the Kattis ID's tied to the email you used to registered for the regional. Supported languages: Java, Kotlin, C++, C, Python3

Team-Help Zoom: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/92589668228

Coaches Room: Meeting ID: 971 2805 1146
This will need a passcode (which has been provided by email)

• Provided team communication channel (WEBEX TEAMS HAS BEEN SETUP)
• You are welcome to use any other means of communicating between team members that you feel works for your team.
• NOTE: You are expected, on your honor, to not use any resources that have a human interacting with your queries for information. (So electronic resources about algorithms, and pre-written code are fine, however a forum where you (or someone else) asks questions would not be appropriate.

Help for teams during the contest
1. Kattis - clarifications - Problem clarifications will not be answered on any other channel.

2.Team-Help Zoom: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/92589668228

3. contact us at: ncna.regional at gmail dot com

1. Kattis - clarifications 
2. About Zoom
3. email

Closing/Awards Ceremony

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2379986585 
This will need a passcode (which has been provided by email)

• Till 6:15 Chat rooms
• A quick rundown of solution sketches and Q/A by the Chief Judge for the region
• Using Resolver to see which teams won (the scoreboard was frozen for the last hour).
• Final words by the Regional Director.

• Desktop client or mobile app: version 5.3.0 or higher.
• ChromeOS: version 5.0.0 (4241.1207) or higher

Overview

On Saturday, February 27, 2021, hundreds of contestants in the ACM North Central North America region (NCNA) will compete for "bragging rights" as top collegiate programmers. Teams at the "top of the heap" will advance to the North American Divisional Championship, then hopefully to the North American Championship from where they earn a berth at the contest's World Finals in Moscow Russia this summer!

The NCNA region includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, Western Ontario, Manitoba, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and the UP of Michigan. If you are interested in showing how good you are -- or you just want to beat an arch-rival -- then get your team together and register!

Team Requirements

• Each team member must be eligible, willing, and able to compete in the World Finals, and be enrolled in a degree program with at least a half-time load (not meant to exclude students on co-op, exchange, internship, etc.).
• A team member must have begun college in 2016 or later and be born in 1997 or later.
• A team member may compete in at most two World Finals.
• A team member may compete in at most five regional contests.
• All members must be certified by the team coach.
• In some cases the coach may petition to extend eligibility. See the rules for team composition and appeals at the ICPC web site.

Execution of the Contest

• The execution time limits set for each problem will NOT be scaled based upon the language. It is the contestants' responsibility to select the appropriate tool (language and algorithm) to produce the correct output within the allotted time limits. Problem-set has been tested with C++ and Java solutions.
• The contest scoreboard will continue to be updated until the final 60 minutes of the contest. However, teams will be notified of both their accepted and their rejected runs through the end of the contest.
• All teams who solve at least one problem will be ranked. The ranking will be determined:
  • first by the number of problems solved;
  • second by total elapsed time to each solution plus a 20-minute penalty per rejected submission for problems that are eventually solved;
• Special Rule: At least sixteen teams will advance to the next round (the Divisional contest). At most two teams can be promoted from each University.

Registration

• Select the three students who will compete as a team. This is frequently done with a local programming contest, but the particular selection mechanism is not proscribed by the regional contest rules.
• Have a representative of the school serve as the team coach.
• The team coach will certify the eligibility of the contestants, serve as the official point-of-contact with the team, and ideally accompany the team to the contest site.
• Have the team coach complete the team registration procedure on the ICPC web site. The coach should also register any reserve (alternate) team members and guests.
• No fees are being assessed this year!
• Contact the director of the site at which you will compete for details on the contest environment (equipment, driving directions, parking, housing, etc.) and to verify the site can accommodate your team.
• Teams registering after January 22 may not receive a regulation contest t-shirt in time for the contest. See Contest Schedule for details.