Dear contestants,

having a short rest after the EC, we started to collect and organize our
thoughts in a public svn and web page. We plan to have short writeups
about the history, background and development of the problems, the input
files, solvers, the infrstructure we used for the EC, etc.

We encourage teams to send us their thoughts, ideas, code, solver
programs and critics so we could publish them in the same repository.
For now, please send your comments/files to the EC mailing list.

You can subscribe to the list by sending an email to ec-subscribe@lists.challenge24thelegend.com. The address of the list is ec@lists.challenge24thelegend.com.

Url to the web page: http://repo.hu/projects/ch2410pub
Url to the svn repository: svn://repo.hu/ch2410pub/trunk
(The svn repository is read-only for anonymous users.)


Regards,

Organizers

Dear Contestants,

The EC is over, however the evaluation of some problems are still pending. Thus the standing is changing from minute to minute. We thank everybody who participated. Hope you had fun and enjoyed the contest.

We will be back soon with the final results.

Organizers

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Hi everybody,

The start has come. Here are the most important info to know.

Link for the Problem set (PDF): http://www.challenge24thelegend.com/files/ec.pdf

Link for the Problem set (HTML): http://www.challenge24thelegend.com/files/problemset_html.zip

Link for the Inputs: http://www.challenge24thelegend.com/files/inputs_nopass.zip

Submission site: http://x.challenge24thelegend.com

Passwords for the pre-downloaded inputs:

First zip's password:  Pheedoo3noo8bi4A

Inner zip's password: Eequ4cheFe

 

The organizer team

As during the Test Contest, we will be available on IRC on the irc.challenge24thelegend.com server (using the default port 6667). For general discussion about the contest use the #challenge24 channel, for problem-specific discussion use the #a, #b, #c, #d, #e, #f and #g channels.

There is also a public mailing list (no one was automatically subscribed this time). You can subscribe to the list by sending an email to ec-subscribe@lists.challenge24thelegend.com. The address of the list is ec@lists.challenge24thelegend.com.

The mailing list has a web page as well, where you can manage your subscription and view the archives.

Dear Contestants,

We would like to share two really important things with you:

1.  We made available the Intro section of the EC Problem Set. Please read it through really carefully! It contains important informations about the scoring system and the contact channels you can reach us during the contest.

Link:  http://www.challenge24thelegend.com/2010/files/ec_intro.pdf

2. We also made available the input files of the problems, because it is quite large (~10MB). The zip files are protected with passwords that we will publish at 10am (CET) on 27th February when the contest is starting.

Link: http://www.challenge24thelegend.com/2010/files/inputs.zip

 

Please be sure that your team meets the requirements and is EC ready:

• has 3 members and members are accepted (there's no pending request)
• all members are EC ready (has accepted data and CV)

Thanks,

The organizer team

The test competition ended successfully, more than 70 teams submitted solutions.

The problem set can be downloaded from : http://challenge24thelegend.com/files/testcompetition.zip

You can access the Test Contest Submit sytem on the following url:

http://x.challenge24thelegend.com/ch24ECServer/

You can get the problem set and the inputs there.

During the time of the Test Contest, you can reach the organizers via IRC:

 server: irc.challenge24thelegend.com
 port: 6667 (default)

Channels:

 #challenge24 - for general questions
 #p - for questions about problem P
 #q - for questions about problem Q
 #r - for questions about problem R

Please don't use the general channel for questions about specific problems.

No registration or password is required to reach IRC, but you'll need an IRC client.

 Windows - mIRC: www.mirc.com
 Linux - xchat: xchat.org
 Mac OS X - xchat: www.uplinklabs.net/~tycho/projects/xchat-aqua/

Dear Competitors,

We saw many teams with only 1 or 2 members in it. Please keep it mind your team have to be full (3 members) in order to be eligible to participate in the Electronic Contest on 27th February. We would like to also ask you to fill your data properly and upload your CV as soon as you can, we have started to check them today.

Thank you,
The organizer team

Please keep it in mind you have to be registered by 19th February (today) 23:59 (CET) server time if you would like to take part in the test competition.

Have fun! See you tomorrow from 8am to 8pm (CET)!

Nothing like this has happened before!! A test competition and 10.000 Euro in prizes at the jubilee X. BME Challenge24 international programming competition! You do not want to be left out do you?! You are not late at all, thanks to the test run you can register until February 23^rd 23:59 (CET) on the official site http://challenge24thelegend.com 

The online qualification round takes place a few days after the registration deadline, on February the 27^th from 10:00-15:00 (CET). This year there will also be a test run on February the 20^th from 08:00-20:00 (CET) – just like the online qualification round, but with fewer and much simpler problems. This round will be an opportunity for the teams to familiarize themselves with our submission system, and the general atmosphere of the competition. Points obtained in the test run aren’t counted, but participation is recommended - the tasks may contain some hints about the tools needed to solve the problems of the qualification round. 

We are happy to announce our new Diamond Grade sponsor, NetAcademia. Thanks to them, the members of the best Hungarian team will receive 500.000 HUF (approximately 1800 EUR) training voucher per person. Prize winners can decide which course they are going to take, including but not limited to Ethical Hacking, .Net Framework, Silverlight. With this, the sum of prices is grown to more than 10.000 Euro.

We have started with the preparations of the 2010 contest. Merry Christmas