Notes for 2018 Contest¶
Agenda
- General schedule of events for Saturday
- 8:00 AM - Registration starts
- 8:00 AM - someone from each site joins Slack
- 8:30 AM - Welcome, brief rules (Video Chat)
- 9:15 AM - Practice contest starts
- 10:00 AM - Practice Contest ends
- 10:xx AM - Lunch starts
- 11:00 AM - Rules Refinement (Video Chat)
- Note that Kattis will allow login for incorrect contest
- Noon - Regional Contest starts (signalled via Slack)
- 1:00 PM - Coaches Roundtable (Video Chat)
- 4:00 PM - scoreboard freezes
- 5:00 PM - Regional Contest ends
- 5:02 PM - Contestant machines re unlocked
- Kattis allows teams to login and access all submissions after contest
- 5:12 PM - Contestant machines get shutdown
- 5:15 PM - Talks by local folks start
- 5:xx PM - super starts
- 5:45 PM (5:30 PM ideally) - Contest Problem Review (Video Chat)
- 6:15 PM - Awards announcement/resolver (Video Chat)
- Video Conferencing
- Will be done with BlueJeans
- Ideally each site has a meeting room with a projector to show the video conference
- Prefer to have each site broadcasting a webcam of their students in the room but not mandatory
- All presentations for SCUSA will be done over video con
- We will use the one video conference meeting for the whole weekend
- Logins! Logins! Logins!
- Login to the contest image: team-XXXX
- Login to Kattis for practice: scusa18practice-team-XXXX
- Login to Kattis for regional: scusa18-team-XXXX
- Passwords will be different for practice and regional competitions
- Each site should have login instructions for practice and regional
- site-contest.txt - Regional contest team printouts
- site-practice.txt - Practice contest team printouts
- site-registration.txt - Team printouts with just usernames
- site-secret.txt - all usernames and passwords
- site-summary.txt - no passwords
- Registration
- Coach to register the team to not crowd the registration table with students
- Coach will receive team t-shirts and any extra info such as:
- Team info sheet (not password sheet)
- Rules?
- Since we will be only doing a one day contest, registration needs to happen quickly
- Contest Rooms
- Two teams from the same school should not be seated next to each other
- Prefer to print labels for each machine that help teams find their computer to sit at
- How we will run the practice and regional contest
- Make sure that contestants know to NEVER power down, reboot machines. They login after contest starts and log off when before they leave (for both practice and regional contests)
- Need at least one staff member/trusted volunteer in each room where contestants are competing
- 15 minutes before start of competition, each site checks in to confirm that their site is ready
- Teams should be sitting at their space at least a few minutes before start
- Problem sets (3) and login instructions under keyboard (or similar) before contest starts
- Slack channel (operations) will be used by me to announce start, at that time each site tells to team to start
- Only then may they login to the computer and open the packet and look at the problems
- Scoreboard will freeze at 1 hour left in competition to build anticipation for winner
- Time warnings at 1 hour to go (when scoreboard finishes), 30 to go, 15 to go , end
- Contest ends – all sites confirm that they have announced end
- Internet will be restored for 10 minutes (so teams can upload code)
- Tell teams to NOT turn machines off or unplug USB keys
- Shuffle teams out of rooms shortly after end of contest
- Once students are gone, sites can clean the contest area and return to normal
- Students should not leave with a prod copy of the contest image!!
- All communication during contests will be through Slack!
- Site should provide
- Scratch sheets of paper
- Writing utensils
- Printing at each site
- Runner at printer should distribute printout to teams
- Printouts should have a cover sheet with team name but it is application-dependent
- Prizes