Programming Contest Success for MSCS Teams

On Saturday, 13th of September, SMSCS hosted the Wellington Site of the 2008 ACM South Pacific Regional Programming Contest (http://www.sppcontest.org/2008/Report2008.html) as part of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (http://cm2prod.baylor.edu/login.jsf). Two teams, both from SMSCS, took part in the competition at Wellington Site. There were 89 teams competing in South Pacific at sites spread throughout Australia and New Zealand. There were 9 problems with the winning team from Australia (Hobart) solving 8 and the winning team from New Zealand (Christchurch) solving 7 (http://www.sppcontest.org/2008/Results/summary.html). The winning team from Australia and the winning team from New Zealand will advance to World Finals in 2009.

The first SMSCS team was Hugh_Mudge_Will: Hugh Davenport, Michael Mudge, William O'Neil.

Hugh_Mudge_Will solved 7 problems and came 8th in South Pacific (or 5th in NZ).

The second SMSCS team was CGC: Carlton Downey, Gustav Van Der Merwe, Constantine Dymnikov. CGC solved 5 problems and came 24th in South Pacific (or 10th in NZ).

Each team got a variety of prizes from the contests main sponsor: IBM, as well as a free year of ACM Student Membership.

For more information about our regional site see our web site: http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/Events/ACMProgrammingContest. The contest was organised by Stuart Marshall, Alex Potanin, and Neil Ramsay. Please contact Alex Potanin for more information.