IEEE SB Passau Advent Calendar 2021

Rules

  1. Participants:
    • Everybody is welcome to participate in this advent calendar. It is not required to be student at the university of Passau.

  2. Problems:
    • Between 2021-12-01 and 2021-12-24 every day at 09:00am (Passau local time) a new problem is published.
    • These problems can be solved until the end of the year, that is until 2021-12-31.
    • Each problem has public and private testcases.
    • Public testcases are provided together with their problem. For private testcases you can only see if you passed the testcase or not.

  3. Submissions:
    • A submission consists of a file containing the sourcecode of your program. We compile that program and execute it on our evaluation system. The output of the program for the input of a testcase is then compared to the expected output. If they match, the testcase is considered passed.
    • You can submit as many solutions as you want. It also doesn't matter if your first submission fails.
    • Even if it might be tempting, it is forbidden to upload programs that might harm a fair and healthy competition. We reserve the right to exclude participants that violate this rule from the competition.
    • Possible programming languages are C, C++, C#, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and more. Further information can be found in our FAQ.

  4. Scoring:
    • Each solved testcase awards a specific amount of points. These points are accounted per testcase. So you can collect points even if your solution did not pass all testcases!
    • The time of the submission does not influence the amount of points you will get. A solution submitted on the first day the problem is available is as good as a solution submitted a week later.
    • The points awarded for a problem are always taken from one solution: The points are taken from the submission that awards the most points.
    • The total score is the sum of the points of the best submissions for each problem.

  5. Prices:
    • The participants with the highest score at the end of the competition will be invited to the price-giving.
    • If several participants share the same score, the first three places will be determined by a jury.

  6. Others:
    • The legal process is excluded.
    • We reserve the right to change the rules if needed.