2005 ACM/ICPC Arab & North Africa
The 2005 ACM/ICPC Arab & North Africa 8th Regional Contest
was hosted by Kuwait University,
Kuwait, Nov 29 -- Dec 1, 2005.
The Participants
40 teams from 30 Universities attended the contest.
Fourteen countries were represented:
Algiers, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco,
Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunis, UAE, Yemen,
and the host country: Kuwait.
Click here for the detailed roster.
The Contest
The problem-set was made of 10 problems.
All but two problems (C & D) were solved.
Problem-G ("The Euclidian Clock") and Problem-J ("It's All About Three") were the most solved (but J generated a lot of penalties!)
Click here for a summary of solved problems.
The contest environment supported three programming languages:
C, C++, and Java.
Click here
for a report on language-related statistics.
The Judges I/O
A. The Earth is Flat
B. The Double Helix
C. Alpha of Degree k
(currently unavailable)
D. Sort that Queue
E. Still Johnny Can't Add
F. Newton Apple
G. The Euclidian Clock
H. Chop Ahoy! Revisited!
I. What's your Logo
J. It's All About Three
The Results
Click here for the final results,
or here for the detailed results.
And the winners are...
First Place
The American University in Cairo;
AUC Challengers:
Mahmoud Abdel-fattah, Fadi Mounir, Mina Maher Shawky Abouseif, Sherif G. Aly (Coach)
Second Place
Cairo University - Faculty of Computers & Information;
FCI Cairo Univ1:
Ali Mamdouh Abdou Ibrahim El Kahki, Amin Mohammad Amin Allam, Hamza Darwish Mohamed Ibrahim, Salwa El Gamal (Coach)
Third Place
Arab Academy for Science and Technology;
Special Edition:
Mohamed Taha, Ahmed Elhabashy, Ahmed Naguib, Ossama Ismail (Coach)
Extreme Programmers
(Awarded to the team that submits the first successful run)
The American University in Cairo;
AUC Challengers:
Mahmoud Abdel-fattah, Fadi Mounir, Mina Maher Shawky Abouseif, Sherif G. Aly (Coach)
Steadfast Gurus
(Awarded to the team that submits the last successful run)
American University of Sharjah;
Leopards 1:
Usman Riaz, Mhd. Majed Al-chatti, Harish Bajaj, Gerassimos Barlas (Coach)
Solid Programmers
(Awarded to the team that solves the most number of problems without penalties)
The American University in Cairo;
AUC Challengers:
Mahmoud Abdel-fattah, Fadi Mounir, Mina Maher Shawky Abouseif, Sherif G. Aly (Coach)
Relentless Programmers
(Awarded to the team that solves a problem after the most number of wrong submissions)
Algiers University;
USTHB:
Ouadjaout Abdelraouf, Mahmoudi Othmane, Benabadji Karim (Coach)
The Website
Finally, click here for a snapshot of how the website looked at the end of this contest. Please note that some links might no longer work.
