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2006 Regional Contest Report |
| Site | University | Team Name | Coach | Team Members |
| Adelaide | University of Adelaide | QK | Brad Alexander | Patrick Coleman, Thoai Duy Khang Tran Alex Flint |
| Auckland | University of Auckland | CIA | Michael Dinneen | Andrew Olsen Robert Bowmaker Stephen Merriman |
| Brisbane | Queensland University of Technology | Team Pacman | Diane Corney |
Audun Ellertsen, |
| Canberra | Australian National University | ANU Red | Eric McCeath |
David Ananian-Cooper David Barr Matt Collins |
| Launceston | University of Tasmania | UTas A | Mike Cameron-Jones |
Alex Berry Josh Deprez Matthew Armsby |
| Melbourne | University of Melbourne | Carpal Toaster Syndrome | Bernard Pope | Iain McCoy Matthew Giuca Richard Fothergill |
| Perth | University of Western Australia | Team DeLiRiuM | Luigi Barone | Bernard Blackham Cameron Patrick David Basden |
| Sydney | University of New South Wales | UNSW-alpha | Hossam ElGindy | Beren Sanders Clarence Dang David Greenaway |
Site Reports
Adelaide from G Stewart Von Itzstein
The South Australian site was situated at the University of South Australia Mawson Lakes this year as part of the yearly rotation around the SA universities. The site started smoothly on time at 1130am. The site was composed of a large teaching room with 80 sunray terminals running Java/C++. We also experimented with using projectors to show the students the current standings. These terminals were shut down for the last 30 minutes of the competition.
This year we had a grand total of 51 contestants competing in 17 teams. Adelaide university had a strong showing with the majority of teams coming from that university.
As per last year we had a strong showing from the Adelaide team KQ (last year's champions). The KQ team surged ahead early in the competition maintaining a healthy lead for the majority of the competition. However, not to be outdone a number of teams competed fiercely for second place with the final standings being Team QK, OBfuscated. Best second year team was UniSA Team 2.
Thanks to the judges Brad Alexander (Adelaide University), Paul Calder (Flinders University), and Phillipa Avery (Adelaide University). A special thank you to the University of South Australia technical staff Ben Avery (for Technical Admin) and Ben Close (coming in and making sure the systems ran smoothly on the weekend). We also had a visitor from Google, Nigel, who watched the competition and gave out some goodies to contestants after the IBM function had completed.
All South Australian teams wish KQ the best of luck at the finals.
Auckland from Phil Robbins
The Auckland site again ran smoothly thanks to the hard work of Art Brown and Brian Green, our technical staff. We had teams from University of Auckland, University of Waikato and AUT University as usual, and a team came up from Victoria University in Wellington. We are hoping VUW will host a Wellington site next year and increase participation from the capital.
Professor Albert Yeap welcomed the contestants on behalf of the hosts, AUT University, and IBM were represented by Glen Archbold and Kate Tulp. Glen spoke of IBM's committment to the contest, and gave out a bag of goodies to each team.
The defending champions CIA got off to a flying start with 3 problems solved inside half an hour. They were eventually caught and passed by E_FAIL from University of Auckland who won the site contest with 6 solutions. After the contest and the pizza eating, Raewyn Boersen gave out the prizes donated by IBM. Glen and Kate congratulated the top teams.
Thanks to the judges, Michael Dinneen, Perry Lorier and Tony McGregor, and to the AUT staff who helped out, Boris Bacic, Gordon Grimsey and Jacqui Whalley.
Later we learned that both E_FAIL and CIA has actually solved 7 problems, with CIA being site and New Zealand champions because of their faster time.
Brisbane from Malcolm Corney
QUT hosted 10 teams with 3 from Griffith University, 6 from Queensland University of Technology and we welcomed a team from the University of Southern Queensland for the first time. The contest kicked off just after 12 noon after a network problem but then ran smoothly after that.
QUT's Team Pacman (Audun Ellertsen, Matthew Clark and Micael Szewczyk) repeated their win from 2005 by solving 6 problems. The Knights of the GNU Assembler (all first year students) took second with Griffith's Middle Endian taking third place. Well done.
Thanks to Rob Pagura from IBM who dropped in to give the prizes.
Thanks to the QUT staff who helped out on with judging (On Wong and Glenn Smith), technical issues (Neil Muspratt) and general helpers (Diane Corney, Chris Ho Stuart and Sean Mailander) for their efforts on the day. Thanks also to the competitors who enjoyed the challenge.
No report yet.
Dunedin from Andrew Trotman
Dunedin hosted only one team, and that was from the University of Otago. The contest ran smoothly thanks to the efforts of the systems administrators and contest volunteers.
Launceston from Mike Cameron-Jones
Congratulations to Matthew Armsby, Alex Berry and Josh Deprez, for convincingly winning the Launceston site, as "UTas A", having been in
the lead all the way from their first submission. We await the final
results to know whether Matthew and Alex, also in last year's site
champion "UTas A" team, have improved upon their previous regional
position.
Thanks are due to the ACM and IBM for organisation and sponsorship,
and to those who helped out with the site both before and on the day: Tony Gray (Technical Director), Robyn Gibson (Judge), Andrew Spilling
(Technician), Christian McGee (Technician), and Julia Mollison
(Travel and Food Organiser).
Melbourne from George Fernandez
The Melbourne site again was very well organised by Mirka Borowska, who never leaves anything to chance. The technical support was provided by Emil Mikulic (with ‘k’!), and Geoffrey Geisemann. These guys must be really good because we had no problems, glitches or difficulties of any kind during the contest. Present also were Fei Liu, Mary Martin and Phil Scott from La Trobe University.
The competition started right on time, the problem set was discussed among the main judges, Pablo Rossi (RMIT), Bernie Pope (Melbourne University) and myself (George Fernandez, RMIT) to make sure that we could answer clarification requests. No major problems there, although a couple of pertinent questions had to be clarified for all the teams.
There were 8 teams competing, four from Melbourne University and four from La Trobe University. Importantly, 2 of the La Trobe teams came form Bendigo.
The contestants obviously tackled the problems in the order stated, since there were no attempts to problems F to J at all. The winners of the Melbourne site were Carpal Toaster Syndrome (Melbourne University), with 5 problems solved, winning over Melbourne Uni B (Melbourne University) only by time. Special mention for the MU team that qualified third (Melbourne Uni A), comprised only of first year students.
After the event, Mirka distributed all the prizes to the teams, and some to the coaches as a gift from the competition. The pizzas were delivered on time and within budget, although it took a while for the delivery guy/lady to make contact with us, although Mirka provided the pizza shop with a detailed map.
After the ceremonies and the pizza and the cleaning and putting away, we were all out by 6:30
No report yet.
Sydney from Hossam El Gindy
UNSW hosted 10 teams this year: 3 from Mcquarie University, 3 teams from University of Sydney and 4 local teams from the School of CSE. The contest started on time at noon and ran smoothly for the whole 5 hours.
Thanks to the Alexandre Mah for judging, Simon Bowden for teachnical support and the ACM@UNSW student chapter members for general help on the day.
Congratulations to team UNSW-alpha
(David Greenaway, Clarence Dang and Beren Sanders)
for winning the Sydney site.
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