This individual is responsible for the contest as a whole, handles all duties not covered by the other officials listed below, and is the final authority on any disputes. The Regional Director is Joseph Trigg from Southwest Missouri State University.
Before 1999, there was only one Regional Chief Judge, but there are now three. Collectively the Regional Chief Judges are responsible for problem creation, judging, contest rules, and resolution of disputes (by majority vote). They work together to create a suitable problem set from the submitted problems, with the goal being that almost all teams can solve at least one problem but almost none can solve all of them. They also have individual responsibilities as follows.
This year the editor is John Cigas from Rockhurst University, the toolsmith is Andy Harrington from Loyola University Chicago, and the webmaster is Eric Shade from Southwest Missouri State University.
Each year one of the three Regional Chief Judges will be designated as the contest-day contact to handle questions and problems that arise during the contest. This year your contact is Eric Shade.
This individual is responsible for preparing an individual site to host the contest. If you have any questions about the equipment or software at your site, consult this person.
Each team sponsor acts as a judge at their site. One of the site judges is appointed as a Head Judge for that site. The site judges are responsible for judging submissions, responding to dialogue requests, and reporting the scores via the contest-day Web site. If necessary the site judges will communicate with the contest-day Regional Chief Judge to resolve any difficulties.
Last modified Sun Oct 22 22:40:13 2000