Report from the Contest Director

Report from the Contest Director
The contest challenges students, working in three-person teams, to rely on their
programming skills and creativity during a five-hour battle of logic, strategy, and
mental endurance. Students solve complex problems using both traditional and new
software development tools. Out of 551 teams participated in the online contest held
on November 01, 2014. We selected 90 teams for the onsite contest which was held at
ABV IITM Gwalior on December 21, 2014. Compositions of these teams are as follows:
No. of Teams
Onsite Contest
North
31
South
21
Male
264
East
18
Female
04
West
19
Foreign
1
Total
90
Total
268
I am proud to inform you that the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
[Asia Region Gwalior Site] was conducted successfully at the ABV IIITM Gwalior
(India). It is a matter of great honor to be able to host this contest for the sixteenthtime
in a row.This successful event was largely due to the wonderful teamwork of ABV IITM
Gwalior.
Teams started arriving on the campus from December 19, 2014afternoon onwards
with lot of hopes, ideas and enthusiasm. On December 20, 2014, Professor Joydeep
Dhar, In charge of Operations ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
[Asia Region Gwalior Site] welcomed all the contestants for this mega event. Professor
Anupam Shukla, Associate Director, ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contest [Asia Region Gwalior Site]talked about the ACM ICPC at ABV IITM Gwalior.
There was a key-note speech delivered by thedistinguish speaker, Mr. Anoop Kalbalia,
Directi. He discussed about the how programming practice can be improved in India.
To enable contestants to become familiar with the environment, on December 20, 2014
we had a practice session, which started at 6:30 PM and continued till 7:30 PM. On
December 21, 2014 the contest began at 10:00 AM. It was of five hours duration.
There were 12 problems.
Results were declared on December 21, 2014 at 6PM by Prof. Anupam Shukla, ABV
IITM Gwalior and Professor Joydeep Dhar, ABV IITM Gwalior. We are glad to announce
that team Believe from IIIT Hyderabad is the Winner of the Contest. The team could
solve10 out of 12 problems with 1062 penalty points. Team Code Templars from IIT
Bombay has become the runner-up with1082 penalty points. They solved 9 problems.
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There are 4 more teams who could solve 9 problems while 2 teams could solve 8
problems. There are 9 teams who solve 7 problems. Further, there are 80 teams who
could solve at least one problem. Results are available on our web site
www.icpcgwalior.org
The Contest provided a platform where our future programmers, professionals,
industries and government organizations worked together. It would have been
impossible to organize this event without the wonderful support I received from
everyone. My grateful thanks to all the contestants, coaches, all team members of
Directi, ACM contest organizers, the ABV IITM Gwalior administration, IIT Kanpur
department colleagues, my working committees, volunteers, service providers, and a
lot of people who helped from both within and outside the Institute. I also thank the
media for providing wide publicity to this contest.
Phalguni Gupta
Regional Contest Director,
ACM ICPC Gwalior Site - 2014
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