2007 ACM/ICPC Arab & North Africa
The 2007 Arab & North Africa 10th Regional Contest
was hosted by the Arab Academy for Science and Technology
in Alexandria, Egypt, 3-5 December 2007.
All activities took place at the Academy except the opening
which was held at the historic & prestigious
Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
The Participants
44 teams from 27 Universities attended the contest.
Nine countries were represented: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates.
Click here for the detailed roster.
The Contest
The problem-set was made of 10 problems.
Almost all teams managed to solve problem-A ("Judging Olympia").
No team managed to solve problem-G ("Let's Go to the Movies")
and no team attempted to solve problem-I ("Moving Sticks").
Click here for a summary of solved problems.
The contest environment supported three programming languages:
C, C++, and Java.
Only two teams used C, and the majority favored C++.
Click here
for a report on language-related statistics.
The Judges I/O
A. Judging Olympia
B. Hide That Number
C. Rotating Rings
D. A Tale from the Dark Side of the Moon
E. Fermat's Christmas Theorem
F. Incidental Points
G. Let's Go to the Movies
H. The Writer's Club
I. Moving Sticks (Take a look at the judges' cheat-sheet)
J. Johnny Hates Math
The Results
Click here for the final results,
or here for the detailed results.
And the winners are...
First Place
Cairo University - Faculty of Computers & Information;
FCI-Cairo Univ. 1:
Hamza Ibrahim, Mahmoud Ouda, Mohamed El-Asmar, Salwa El Gamal (Coach)
Second Place
American University in Cairo;
AUC Challengers:
Khaled Hafez, Remoun Metyas, Soha Hassan, Sherif G. Aly (Coach)
Third Place
German University in Cairo;
Blind Hour:
Eslam Khalaf, Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, Mounir Stino, Slim Abdennadher (Coach)
Extreme Programmers
(Awarded to the team that submits the first successful run)
American University in Cairo;
AUC Challengers:
Khaled Hafez, Remoun Metyas, Soha Hassan, Sherif G. Aly (Coach)
Steadfast Gurus
(Awarded to the team that submits the last successful run)
Cairo University - Faculty of Computers & Information;
FCI-Cairo Univ. 1:
Hamza Ibrahim, Mahmoud Ouda, Mohamed El-Asmar, Salwa El Gamal (Coach)
Solid Programmers
(Awarded to the team that solves the most number of problems without penalties)
American University of Beirut - Engineering;
AUB Engineers:
Amer Chamseddine, Hussein Al Asadi, Jad El-Hage, Hassan Artail (Coach)
Relentless Programmers
(Awarded to the team that solves a problem after the most number of wrong submissions)
German University in Cairo;
Achtung:
Abdallah El Guindy, Hassan Hassan, Omar ElRuby, Sherif Ragab (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.
