ACM Boston Preliminary (BOSPRE 2004)
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BOSPRE 2004 is coming soon! Its date is Saturay Oct 23.
IMPORTANT NEW RULE: This year ACM is requiring that each individual
team member be registered at the
ACM Programming Contest web site
BEFORE the team comes to BOSPRE 2004! This registration requires
the direct participation of the team member because of the detailed
information required, so coaches should not assume they can do
this registration by themselves at the last minute, or that they
can delay until contest day.
Assignments of teams to sites has been made. The site non-specific
schedule and assignments of teams to locations
is here.
Science Center, Wellesley College
Practice accounts are available and info has been emailed to
the coaches. If you have problems or have not received an
account, contact walton@deas.harvard.edu.
Please make some use of the practice accounts BEFORE you come to the
contest, so you will be familiar with contest procedures. Please read
the help files below BEFORE you come. Of course its OK to not do this
if you are less concerned about being competitive.
Other less useful practice facilities are available
here.
Final information for teams going to Wellesley
is here.
Recheck this the day before the contest.
Final information for teams going to Fitchburg State
is here.
Recheck this the day before the contest.
There will be a $50 per team registration fee, at both Wellesley
College and Fitchburg State.
To see which teams registered for BOSPRE 2004 and other Northeastern
sites go
here.
BOSPRE 2004 is a cooperative effort between Wellesley and
Fitchburg State, which are host sites, and Harvard,
which provides judging and problems using the net.
Since Harvard provides the judging,
in order to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest,
Harvard will not attend BOSPRE 2004; it will go elsewhere
(probably to WNEC).
When you register for BOSPRE 2004 you will NOT be assigned a
hosting site. This will be done by the BOSPRE 2004 managers much later.
Some issues are: (1) some hosting sites are easier for some teams to
drive to than other sites, (2) some teams may be able to travel by
subway or bus to some sites but not others, and (3) two teams from
the same school go to the same hosting site.
Although BOSPRE 2004 will have multiple hosting sites, there
will be only one scoreboard and all teams at all BOSPRE 2004
hosting sites will be competing against each other.
The Harvard team will not be at BOSPRE 2004 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 sometimes needed to help
at hosting schools during contest day.
Each member of each team, BEFORE the team arrives at the contest, must
read the following:
Here are postscript files for producing printouts of all available
help files
and
demos files, including those listed
above. These printouts will be given to you when you check in
at the contest, but you are supposed to read the above BEFORE
you get to the contest.
