ACM Boston Preliminary (BOSPRE 2001) Programming Contest Home Page

Final information for teams going to Boston College is here.
Directions for teams going to Holy Cross are here.
The site non-specific schedule and assignments of teams to locations is here.
BOSPRE 2001 is coming soon! Its Saturday, October 13.
Practice accounts are available here.
BOSPRE 2001 is a cooperative effort with Boston College and Holy Cross hosting the teams and Harvard providing judging and problems using the net.
We have room for 18 teams. If any other school wants to become a host for this contest, look here to see what is involved.
To see which teams registered for BOSPRE 2001 and other Northeastern sites go here.
The Northeastern Region of the ACM contest is run by Westfield State College, which will be holding the regional contest.

You register for BOSPRE at the ACM Programming Contest web site.
When you register for BOSPRE 2001 you will NOT be assigned a hosting site. This will be done by the BOSPRE 2001 managers much later. Two issues are: (1) its possible we may end up with one or more hosting sites not that near to Boston, and (2) we hope to accommodate 2nd teams with both teams from a school at the same hosting site.
Although BOSPRE 2001 will have multiple hosting sites, there will be only one scoreboard and all teams at all BOSPRE 2001 hosting sites will be competing against each other.
The Harvard team will not be at BOSPRE 2001 in order to avoid conflict of interest, but the teams of the schools hosting the contest will attend as those schools will not be involved in judging. Coaches from non-hosting schools are needed to help at hosting schools during contest day.

Each member of each team, BEFORE it arrives at the contest, must read the following:
- help/this_contest
- help/formal_contest
- help/xterminals
- help/solving:
- help/input:
- help/output:
- help/print:
- demos/count/README:
- demos/count/count.txt:
- demos/count/Makefile:
- demos/count/count.in:
- demos/count/count.test:
- One of the solutions to the demo, choosing from
- help/scores:
- help/scoreboard
- help/c++:
- help/advice:
Note it is very desirable to read
- help/dynamic_programming
- help/2D_geometry
No activities are planned for team coaches, but if any want to plan something, e.g., lunch, they can email all the BOSPRE team coaches at once at the mail drop bospre-teams@deas.harvard.edu
Some info on overnight accommodations.
The site non-specific schedule and assignments of teams to locations is here.
Final information for teams going to Boston College is is here.
Directions for teams going to Holy Cross are here.
There will be a $50 per team registration fee.
Directions and parking instructions will appear soon.
Last year's BOSPRE 2000 web page is still hanging around: here.
To contact the managers of BOSPRE 2001, email bospre@deas.harvard.edu