2005 ACM Arab & North Africa Regional Contest
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.
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
C. Alpha of Degree k (currently unavailable)
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)
