1998 ACM East Central Programming Contest

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The 1998 East Central Regional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest was held Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November at the University of Waterloo, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 92 teams competed for 3 spots in the World finals, held at Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on 8-11 April, 1999.

You can contact the contest people at Waterloo by emailing acm_ecr_pc@canola1.uwaterloo.ca

Results

The top three teams will get to go to the finals, where they will compete among 61 teams from this and other regions.

FIRST PLACE	University of Waterloo (Waterloo A)
	Viet-Trung Luu
	David Kennedy
	Ondrej Lhotak
	Gordon Cormack, Coach
SECOND PLACE	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU Tartans A)
	Dan Rosenberry
	Yih-Chun Hu
	Larry Greenfield
	Mark Stehlik, Coach
THIRD PLACE	University of Toronto (Toronto 1)
	Jonathan Shekter
	Bhaskara Marthi
	Adrian Corduneanu
	Charles Clarke, Coach
FOURTH PLACE	Case Western Reserve University (Case Western A)
FIFTH PLACE	University of Waterloo (Waterloo B)
SIXTH PLACE	McGill University (McGill Poutines)
SEVENTH PLACE	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU Tartans B)
EIGHTH PLACE	University of Toronto (Toronto A)
NINTH PLACE	Case Western Reserve University (Case Western B)
TENTH PLACE	Western Michigan University (Prussian Programmers)

Contest Environment

The contest environment has a page of its own, including the current version of the environment documentation. You should read this before coming to Waterloo.

General Contest Information

Meet the Judges
Problem Input (what will your program read?)
Solving Contest Problems
Contest Problem Server -- mail in your solutions. There are lots of practice problems here, many from old regional and final contests.

Schedule: Places and Times

Map icon Annotated map of campus.

This was not final. We ran about 15 minutes late.

All times are in EST. Beware the evil time zone shift.

Friday
16:30-18:30	Registration	Comfy Lounge, MC 3001
18:30-19:50	Practice Contest	Terminal Labs, 3rd Floor MC
20:00-21:00	Question and Answer Period	EL 101
21:00-22:30	Pizza Party	EL 101
Saturday
09:30-10:00	Assemble for Contest	Terminal Labs, 3rd Floor MC
10:00-15:00	Contest	Terminal Labs, 3rd Floor MC
10:00-15:00	Coach Knuckle-Biting	DC 1302 (note change)
12:00-14:00	Lunch served, drinks available	Contest location, C&D
15:30-18:00	Banquet	SCH Festival Room

East Central North America Region

The region contains western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, eastern Ontario and Indiana excluding the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area. And McGill, located in Montréal, Quebec.

Contest Finals

See the contest web page.