ACM Boston Preliminary (BOSPRE 2005)
Programming Contest Home Page
BOSPRE 2005 is coming soon!
Its date is Saturday Oct 22.
Assignments of teams to sites has been made. The site non-specific
schedule and assignments of teams to locations
is here.
Practice accounts are available and info has been emailed to
the coaches. The web page is here.
If you have problems or have not received an
account, contact walton@deas.harvard.edu.
Details for Fitchburg are
here,
BUT, at the moment this is last year's page and needs minor
updating.
Middlebury College Campus
Registration: Please register your teams for the contest at the
ACM Programming Contest web site, and click on registration.
You do NOT need to know your team members to register your teams,
nor do you need to have choosen final team names (they can be changed).
You should register early to get on our mailing list.
NOTE: One of
our sites this year is Middlebury College, which will require
some schools not used to doing an overnight to stay overnight
Friday. Students generally like overnights, but we may try to
add a Southern site if this is too much of an imposition.
BOSPRE has several host sites: this year Fitchburg State and Middlebury
College (and possibly a third site TBD). You will be assigned to
a host site several weeks before the contest by the BOSPRE managers,
but may express a preference. We will try to assign schools going
to Middlebury early so they can get overnight accommodations.
IMPORTANT RULE: ACM is requires that each individual
team member be registered at the
ACM Programming Contest web site
BEFORE the team comes to BOSPRE 2005! 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. You should do this registration as
soon as team members are decided, and you can change the team names
at the same time to one's picked by the team members.
There will be a $50 per team registration fee, at both Fitchburg
State and Middlebury College.
To see which teams registered for BOSPRE 2005 and other Northeastern
sites go
here.
BOSPRE 2005 is a cooperative effort between Fitchburg State and
Middlebury College, 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 2005; it will go elsewhere
(probably to WNEC).
When you register for BOSPRE 2005 you will NOT be assigned a
hosting site. This will be done by the BOSPRE 2005 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 2005 will have multiple hosting sites, there
will be only one scoreboard and all teams at all BOSPRE 2005
hosting sites will be competing against each other.
The Harvard team will not be at BOSPRE 2005 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 the handouts you will
be given at the contest:
help files
and
demos files.
These will be given to you when you check in
at the contest, but you are supposed to read the files listed
specifically above BEFORE you get to the contest.
The BOSPRE teams that advance to regionals will earn a wall plaque
for their school.
E.g., see last year's plaques.
Last year's BOSPRE 2004 web page is still hanging around:
here.
