ACM - ICPC 2007 Regionals Report

The 32nd ACM Annual International Collegiate Programming Contest - Asia Region Amritapuri was held at Amritapuri Campus of Amrita University on 21 - 22 December 2007. Contestants and coaches arrived two days prior to the contest day. Total 48 teams participated in the contest out of 54 selected teams from the Online Contest conducted in November 2007. Right amount of fun, entertainment and practice sesssions were arranged for the contestants. Right from 19th of December, pick up from the railway station / airport was arranged for all the teams who had requested for it. A student talk was given by Prasanna, final year CSE student from National Institute of Technology, Trichy. The topic was "Preparation for Success in Programming Contests". He is one among the winners team in 2006 regionals. He has attended the world finals last year at Tokyo. It was a good interactive session with the contestants on 20th evening. The inaugural ceremony was conducted by lighting the lamp. A brief inaugural talk was given by Prof. Vallath Nandakumar, who is the Regional Contest Director of Asia Region, Amritapuri contest site. Two live practice sessions were given for the contestants on 21st December. The judges included people from State University of Buffalo at New York, Ramaiah College, Bangalore, Amrita Technologies, Kochi and from Amrita University. Contest started on time at 08:00 AM on 22nd of December and ended at 01:00 PM. There were 7 problems posted and the Taiwan team - Colorful Bee were the first to solve 6 problems in the given time (Detailed report). The SilasticArmorFriends team of Chennai Mathematical Institute won the second place by solving same number of problems, but in more time. Nice hospitality was given to all the contestants and coaches. Boat cruise accross Kerala backwaters was also arranged as part of entertainment. A 40 minute cultural programme was performed by the students of Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus on 20th evening. It was followed by a banquet dinner arranged in the garden lawn of the universtiy campus. On the day of the contest, the Kalarippayattu, martial arts was performed by the professional team of CVN Kalari at Kollam.

ACM - ICPC 2007 Regionals, Asia Region, Amritapuri.
December 21 - 22, 2007, Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus.

Champion details
Team Name: Colorful Bee
Instution: Taiwan University
Coach: Pu-Jen Cheng
Team members: Peng-Jen Chen, Tien-Jung Chuang, Tien-Ren Chen