
Wellesley Science Center Host Site for BOSPRE 2014

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BOSPRE 2014 will be on Saturday Oct 18.
Remember there is a $75 per team entrance fee payable by check or cash - please make provision for this.
IMPORTANT: Help files were changed last year and YOU ARE NOW RESPONSIBLE for PRINTING AND BRINGING programming language specific help and demo files, which are valuable guides to contest input/output programming. Printable pdf files are available on the Help Page.
Host site details are here: Wellesley UMass Boston
Assignments of teams to accounts are here.
IMPORTANT RULE: ACM requires that each individual team member have COMPLETED their registration at the ACM Programming Contest web site BEFORE the team comes to BOSPRE 2014!
ANOTHER IMPORTANT RULE: You may register teams that decide not to come, by changing the team name on the ACM registration page to `Please Delete'; BUT, you must decide by the 8am of the Sunday ONE WEEK BEFORE the contest and make your decision known by then. If you say you are coming as of 8am the Sunday one week before the contest, please actually come, as space will be reserved for you and food will be ordered for you.
Registration: Please register your teams for the contest at the ACM Programming Contest web site, and click on `Coach' under `I am a'. 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 and get practice accounts. You WILL need to have your student team members register individually BEFORE Oct 18. You may register a team that decides not to come PROVIDED you use the registration site to change the team name to `Please Delete' by 8am of the Sunday ONE WEEK BEFORE the contest.
To see which teams registered for BOSPRE 2014 and other Northeastern sites go here.


UMass Boston Host Site for BOSPRE 2014

All registered teams will be given a practice account for the BOSPRE Practice Facility. Please use this to familiarize yourself with the programming environment and contest procedures before you come. Also please see the help files below before you come, and please print the help and demo files specific to the programming language(s) you want to use, and bring these printouts with you to the contest. It is also possible to use the practice facility without an account, by emailing problem solutions to the facility autojudge.
BOSPRE 2014 is a cooperative effort between Wellesley and UMass Boston, which are the host sites, and Harvard, which provides judging and problems using the net.
When you register for BOSPRE 2014 you will NOT be assigned a hosting site. This will be done by the BOSPRE 2014 managers the weekend before the contest. 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 2014 will have multiple hosting sites, there will be only one scoreboard and all teams at all BOSPRE 2014 hosting sites will be competing against each other.
There will be $75 per team registration fee. It needs to be high enough so the team and coach can be well feed by a caterer.
The Harvard teams will attend BOSPRE (to save travel money). To avoid conflict of interest, Bob Walton will not coach the Harvard teams for BOSPRE (but will for the Regionals). To provide approprate practice for everyone who wants it, the last 2 (or 3 if requested) BOSPRE contests will be made available as practice contests to ALL teams registered for BOSPRE. Your coach will be sent account names and passwords for these practice contests when they are available.
There is a BOSPRE Practice Facility that is up year-round.
Each member of each team, BEFORE the team arrives at the contest, should read the following help files:
You should also read the help and demos files specific to your programming language that are on the Help Page.
Of course its OK to not do this if you are less concerned about being competitive.
IMPORTANT: the help files were reorganized last year. You are responsible for printing from the web any language (C, C++, JAVA) specific help and demos files you need, and bringing them to the contest. Printouts of the above listed non-language specific help files will be provided to you at the contest.
Here is some dated info on Boston overnight accommodations.
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-people@seas.harvard.edu
The Northeastern North America Regional web page is here.
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 2013 web page is still hanging around: here.
To contact the managers of BOSPRE 2014, email bospre-adm@seas.harvard.edu

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