HC3 Team Selection Programming Contest

The Programming Contest is Sunday TBD, 2021, 1pm to 5pm
in [Location TBD].
The Team Selection Meeting is right after the programming contest.

Two practice facilities are available for the Team Selection Programming Contest:

HC3 Selection Contest Facility Make an account and look for `problem lists' that are past selection contests. This is a new system and currently there is only one in this system: harvard-sel2019.
Harvard Prize I Contest This is an old contest management system and you must ask for an account if you want to use it.

Unless otherwise specified the Team Selection Programming Contest rules are the same as the ICPC Regional Contest Rules.
The information special to Team Selection Programming Contests is:

The contest is 1-5pm on a Sunday afternoon, and is immediately followed by the very important 5pm Team Selection Meeting that lasts 30-45 minutes.
The Selection Programming Contest is 4 hours long. During the first hour you must work with paper and pencil only: you will not be allowed to use a terminal until the beginning of the second hour. You are a 1-person-team, and the problems are a bit easier than in a 3-person-team contest.
You will be given problems on paper at the beginning of the contest.
There is a 20 minute penalty for an incorrect submission, like Regionals and World Finals.
There is NO printer available during the contest.
You may bring any printed material you like to the contest, but you may NOT browse the web during the contest.
The autojudge will return to you the judge's input/output of the first failed test case for any incorrect submission, BUT ONLY for the single easiest problem.
You may work on demo problems during the contest, but these will not count in the contest. You can get help from the contest management during the contest on any aspect of demo problems.
The HELP page of the EPM facility is a complete user manual for the facility.
The following concern the mechanics of the Team Selection Programming Contest:

You must get an EPM account before you come to the contest. You should practice on at least one EPM demo or other problem to familiarize yourself with EPM before the contest.
You must bring a laptop to the contest to use as your terminal during the contest. The laptop should must support an internet browser and be able to connect to WiFi in Maxwell-Dworkin. You must have a file editor on the laptop, but need not have compilers or other tools.
Also there are the following important administrative matters:

You must fill out the information form (pdf) during the first hour of the Programming Contest.
If you participate in the Selection Programming Contest you should stay for the Team Selection Meeting, unless you are sure your preferences on your information form are correct and sufficient.

Please send questions or comments to hc3-coaches@g.harvard.edu.