ACM-ICPC 2015 Asian continent Sub-division (Asia Eastcontinent sub-region, including mainland China division) special rules

I. Simplification and reorganization of the Asian Commission

In view of the requirements of the CEO of ACM-ICPC headquarters: simplifying and reorganizing the Asian Commission and simplifying the rules for the Asia team to qualify for the World championship. The Chairman of the Asian region formally announced the cancellation of the national and Regional Competition Steering Committee, all the Asian and Chinese competition stations and the organizing committee directly accept the leadership of Asian presidents, improve the autonomy, integrity and independent operation of the organizing committee.

This rule was discussed by EC members of the Asian Commission and approved by the Asia EC Standing Committee and endorsed by Asian Presidents.

The EC executive member of the Asian Commission, with the approval of the Asian President, can represent Asian presidents at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Asian Regional tournament.

All Asian regional races are sponsored by ACM-ICPC.

All provincial, provincial, invitational, and metropolitan tournaments are organised by the ACM-ICPC Asia Provincial Committee.

II. part of Asia 2015 rules (Chinese version)

Asia 2015 rule is to control the "sub-region of the Eastern Asian continent 2015 sub-rules", but also is the spirit of the sub-rules must obey. The following item A is part of the Asian 2015 Rules (Chinese version). These rules are very important to the organizing Committee (that is, the host schools).

A Maintain the Independent spirit of ICPC competition and the integrity of ICPC.

(a) The organizing committee of the Asian regional race stations must ensure the independence and integrity of the ICPC competition. Except in special circumstances in which the President of Asia specifically permits, the ICPC contest shall not accept the participation and instruction of third parties and shall not disclose information about the contest on the Internet.

(b) All Volunteers (volunteers) and individuals are welcome to participate in the ICPC volunteer work. The organizing committee of each race station shall ensure that volunteers are included in the staff list of the organizing committee and accept the management of the organizing committee of each race station.

(c) The organizers of each race station ensure that the final homepage design must be approved by the Asian President, and there shall be no non-ICPC links other than the sponsors.

(d) The organizer of each race station may allow advertising of sponsors, including products, services and recruitment advertisements, etc. However, the organizing Committee undertakes not to accept other requests from sponsors or third parties. The Organizing committee shall not accept any sponsorship by a third party. In the past two years, the model of industry sponsorship, which has changed hands with third parties rather than direct sponsorship, will no longer be accepted.

(e) If there are exceptions to the above, they are subject to the approval of the Asian Presidents.

B. Conditions for the application to host a sub-station for the Asia division.

(a) a provincial, provincial or metropolitan tournament must be hosted prior to hosting the Asian Games and must be registered on the official website of ICPC and published on the ICPC online. This must also increase the official station score for Asian races.

(b) The Asian sub-station should be classified as an important science and technology activity at the school level, and it is recommended that school-level leadership be the Director of the organizing committee to oversee and support the whole process of the event. The head of the school (or vice-President, director) and even the principal (or vice-chancellor) must commit themselves to the autonomy, independence and integrity of the competition.

Iii. the following "sub-rules for sub-divisions of the 2015 East Asian continent"

A. About China's Asian sub-station competition and network preliminary promotion

(1) In view of the impact of limited factors such as the area of the Asian sub-station, the power supply and the number of participating schools in mainland China, the purpose of the online tournament is only to select the rated number of schools.

(a) Each school is ranked by the highest ranking team as its school;

(b) by school a team with a rated capacity of 10%-60% automatically has a team to advance to the field (the host school may at its discretion within the 10%-60%).

(2) rankings.

The organizing committee of each race station may give prizes to the competition team ranking (called RCD rankings) as appropriate. The official ranking should be the university rankings, RCD rankings and university rankings can be the same, but also different. (University Rankings: Sort by school, each school is sorted by the highest ranked team, the rest of the school ranks alongside the next ranked team.) ）

(3) About the award certificate.

Asian sub-stations are required to issue two series of award-winning certificates:

(a) gold, Silver and Bronze award certificate

-Sort by team;

-The gold medal does not exceed 10% of the number of participating teams, the silver medal does not exceed 20% of the team, and the Bronze award does not exceed 30% of the number of teams. The appropriate host school can adjust its own decision, but must be published on the home page of the race station before the competition.

(b) ICPC ranking certificate

-Ranked by university rankings: The top 30 schools are awarded ranking certificates. The specific quantity can be determined by the corresponding race station sponsor school.

B. Additional provisions on on-site competition for mainland Chinese universities to qualify for Asian sub-station races in mainland China

(1) In addition to a school which satisfies the conditions set out in section III.A (1) (b) above, an additional entry quota will be awarded to schools which meet the following conditions:

(a) schools that have been ranked in the world Finals in the last three years can add a team to each race station;

(b) The host schools of the Asian sub-station heats in the same year may add one more team at each race station;

(c) ICPC registered provincial (live) and inter-provincial (on-site) or metropolitan (live) organizers can add one team to each of the 2 races in the vicinity of the 50 team size;

(d) in provincial (live) or inter-provincial (live) or Metropolitan (live), the first female team (and the total ranking in the top one-third) of the school can directly participate in the same sub-station match live;

(e) ICPC registered provincial, provincial or metropolitan races in the top 10% of the school can be added in the same sub-station match one team.

(f) Schools in remote areas, including Xinjiang, Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, Shaanxi, Tibet, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan, Guangxi and Inner Mongolia, may participate in the live race of the nearest Asian race station by the online and ICPC registered provincial races;

(g) Asian sub-stations are subject to other conditions recognized by the school, but any team participating in the live race must be a team that is registered at the same sub-station online or ICPC, provincial or metropolitan races.

(2) Schools participating in the Asian sub-station contest will not be able to compete at the race station, but the school shall be compensated for the number of entries at the other races, determined by the respective race station's sponsoring school.

(3) All invited teams participating in the Asian sub-station tournament will not participate in any ICPC rankings and shall not be awarded any prizes (invited teams are not registered in the ICPC registration system).

(4) According to the above provisions, in principle a school in an Asian sub-station tournament can only send 3 teams. The specific quantity is determined by the corresponding race station contractor school.

(5) including Hong Kong, North Korea, Mongolia and other overseas teams may not need to participate in the network heats up, can register the live race directly, unless special circumstances, each race station organizing committee may not refuse these teams to participate in the live race.

C. Provisions on promotion of ec-final places in sub-division of the Eastern Asian continent

(1) East Asia continent Sub-division Ec-final does not count as Asian sub-station race, participates in the East Asia continent Sub-division ec-final not to participate in the Asian sub-station race the play, also does not include in the Asian sub-station race the score calculation.

(2) The top 35 teams in Asian sub-stations in mainland China will be eligible for ec-final, but they are not allowed to change players. (or the team won the bronze medal or above in each division to be eligible, but the total number of each race station is not more than 45 teams). The school hosting the ec-final can decide and increase the quota for each sub-station, but it must be published on the homepage of the race station before the competition.

(3) The same school can only send 3 teams to participate in the sub-division of Eastern Asia continent ec-final, in line with the above conditions but more than three teams can participate in the competition, do not calculate the rank. The school hosting Ec-final can decide for itself.

(4) There are 3 special ec-final recommended places for each of the regional RCD, and the consent of the Ec-final school is required.

(5) The Ec-final school can team up to participate in the Ec-final competition, participate in the rankings, but not in the ec-final to compete with WF qualifying places.

D. Rules and restrictions on the finalists of the World Championship in the Sub-division of the Eastern Asian continent (EC, including mainland China)

The finalists of the World Championship (WF Slots) are divided into three categories (participation Slots), Medal places (medal Bonus Slots) and other bonus places (other Bonus Slots). The number of participants is from the ICPC headquarters allocation to the Asian Regional participation quota (participationslots), determined by the Asian President and assigned to the East Asia continent Sub-division (EC, including the Mainland China division) part The medal quota is the number of places in the ICPC headquarters that were allocated directly to the particular school where medals were awarded, based on the results of the previous year's finals, and the other bonus places for Asian presidents to obtain from ICPC headquarters.

(1) Discounts and restrictions for schools:

(a) The schools hosting the Asian sub-station races can only receive qualifying places from other races and enjoy certain preferential conditions in sub-division of the Eastern Asian continent. The participating teams of mainland China Schools hosting the Asia division competition will receive 1 WF participation places directly if they have obtained the top 10 university rankings in Asian sub-stations in other mainland China, or have obtained the top 20 (including 20th) in the Sub-division-ec-final of Eastern Asia continent.

(b) The spirit of ACM-ICPC is not only to help the outstanding team outstanding, but also to extend to the remote schools and students. In some areas, there are no or few teams to the world championships, including Xinjiang, Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, Shaanxi, Tibet, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Inner Mongolia. If the host school is located in these areas, the restrictions on the top 10 of the concession will be relaxed, with direct access to 1 participating places. As to how to relax the Asian presidents at their discretion.

(c) In the event that the world Championship is insufficient to provide all the host school team benefits, the priority ranking will be given in accordance with the extent to which each school contributes to the Asian sub-station, with the decision to obtain a preferential school for the finals.

(2) for Asian sub-station proposition (including examining) universities: Cannot get the qualifying places from the match station's live match. (Special circumstances may apply to the Chairman of the Asian region and be granted permission.) ）

(3) preferential cancellation of overseas teams:

Cancel the offer of the overseas team in the Chinese mainland. The Hong Kong region was formally incorporated into the Sub-division of the Eastern Asian continent in 2014 and subsequent Asian races. The ranks of Hong Kong, North Korea and Mongolia schools are no longer eligible for the Mainland China division.

(4) Quota allocation rules for the finals of the mainland China:

At the end of the Asian qualifiers, ICPC headquarters will allocate the participation and medal places to the Asian region, and the Asian President will then allocate the corresponding participation and medal places in the EC (including mainland China) to the EC (including mainland China) division. The order and rules of quota allocation are as follows:

(a) The medal-designated schools will receive the corresponding medal places directly, but the medal-winning team must be within 10 of the university rankings at one of the Asian races.

(b) Mainland Chinese universities participating in other Asian sub-stations outside mainland China and winning the championship or runner-up, (excluding mainland China) direct access to the EC sub-division of the Mainland China region participation quota;

(c) The number of participants in the Sub-division of the Eastern Asian continent will be allocated to the respective schools according to the number of WF outlet rankings in the world finals of the Eastern Asian continent Sub-division, after deducting the remaining participation quotas for section III.D (1.a), (1.b) and (4.b).

E. Distribution rules for the remaining finalists in the World Finals

(1) The number of participants in the EC (including mainland China) division, including the Places in section iii.d (1.a), (1.b) and (4.b), after consultation with the EC Standing Committee, assumes that five Asia regionalsites have been given X (e.g 10) participation places, Ec-final get Y (e.g.4) Participation quota.

(2) The university rankings of each sub-race station are called the WF line rank after removing the team from section III.D (4.a). Ec-final's university rankings are ranked as Ec-final's WF outlet after the removal of III.D (4.a) and five sub-race stations of the outgoing school.

(3) x places will be assigned to the first of the five race station WF outlet rankings after the team is removed from section iii.d (1.a), (1.b) and (4.b) (the same school does not repeat the qualifying line). The remaining places are ranked by the second place in the WF outlet rankings. And so on until the places are exhausted.

(4) If the remaining quota is not enough to be assigned by the same rank of the WF line rank, it will be sorted by the number of teams with more than one question in the sub-race station. The higher the number of teams, the more forward the order until the places are exhausted.

(5) Ec-final y places after removing the number of teams in section III.D (1.a), and (1.b), the WF line is sorted by WF qualify until the quota is exhausted.

F. Proposition

(1) in the last 5 years participated in the World finals and won the position of the school can be independently responsible for any division 100% proposition, in addition to the contractor university can proposition up to 50%. A qualified proposition may also increase the number of people in the industrial sector who, in the previous ACM-ICPC Asian regional competition, will have a proposition of at least 50%, up to a maximum of 100% (subject to approval by the Asian President) if they have won the first 10 prizes in the Asia region.

(2) Topics on Asian sub-station races and the online preliminaries

It is advisable to arrange at least one simple question which will be solved by all the teams in the contest topic. Strive to make all

The team can not solve the number of topics not more than 2, the topic according to the approximate proportion of the degree of difficulty: easy

20~30%, medium 50%, difficult to 30~20%.

(3) The contest organizer must announce at least three weeks prior to the website the school or unit of the network preliminaries and sub-race proposition

and must be at least three weeks prior to the actual question of the person in charge and the list of judges to the Asian President record.

G. Team registration

(1) Since 2012, a student who meets the eligibility criteria can only choose to register for the ICPC website within the same year.

Two games (including two games). The field match with the corresponding network match team in the same arena will be counted

Into the same team on the ICPC official website. Students and school information that participates only in the online tournament and does not participate in the live race will also be counted

As a ICPC official online registration team.

(2) The registration team of the five race stations must come from the registered team of the online tournament or from the ICPC, provincial or metropolitan races.

(3) The registration team of Ec-final's live match must come from the registered team of the other five regional sub-stations on-site races.

H. Supplementary notes for Asia (including EC and mainland China division) Rules

(1) All levels of competition activities and organizations, if used ACM-ICPC logo and name must be approved by the Asian President, and must report directly to the Asian president.

(2) Provincial, inter-provincial, metropolitan or invitational: Organizers please apply directly to the Asian provincial race Coordinator: [email protected]

(3) Asian Regional tournament organizers are requested to apply directly to Asia President: [Email protected]

(4) If the EC sub-division in a certain year, in addition to the mainland of China, Hong Kong or North Korea or Mongolia also run competitions, these non-mainland China tournament stations assigned to the participation of the Asian President according to the race to determine the competition, EC sub-division participation in the quota minus these non-mainland China race station participation quota results, is the number of participating places allocated to the Chinese mainland division.

(5) Other

(a) The live races of the Asian sub-stations should be concentrated in a venue that accommodates at least 90 teams (e.g. gymnasium at the school). Exceptions can be requested by Asian Presidents for approval.

(b) The final contest data must be provided to the ICPC Competition homepage, including the rankings, staff list, propositional person and referee list.

(c) In the case of schools violating the eligibility requirements, the Asian President will be notified of the contravention and the results of the school's performance at all races in mainland China would be cancelled, and a year would be suspended for the next year's mainland races.

(d) The entry fee may be charged in advance.

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ACM-ICPC 2015 Asian continent Sub-division (Asia Eastcontinent sub-region, including mainland China division) special rules