2012 Mid-Central USA programming contest

The Mid-Central Regional contest was held on Saturday, November 3, 2012.

Congratulations to the top 5 teams. (Starred teams are going to the World Finals in St. Petersburg, Russia in June.)

1. *University of Chicago: Whiteboard Erasers
2. University of Chicago: Conjurers of Cheap Tricks
3. *University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: PLATO
4. *Rose Hulman Institute of Technology: Black
5. Southwest Baptist University: Purple

View the Official Standings or see the Archives page for contest data and past results.

News

The 2013 contest will be run by the new Regional Contest Director, Dr. David Hoelzeman from Arkansas Tech University. You can contact him at hoelzemand at acm.org. We also welcome Dr. Peter Macpherson as a new Chief Judge.

Notes

Rule changes for 2012

• Updated mathematics requirements
• Site-specific time limits

and some new ancillary features

• Cloud-based institutional qualifying contests
• Contest registration services

Read about the changes and features and let us know what you think.

Contestants: Check out the ACM ICPC Live Archive which lets you submit solutions on-line to past regional and final contest problems.

Navigate this site using the links in the gray box to your left and the images at the top of the page. Click "Mid-Central USA Region" in the blue banner to return here.

All contest documentation that is not problem-specific is available on this web site and is kept up-to-date, so there is no reason for any coach or team member to be surprised on the day of the contest.