2006 ACM Arab & North Africa Regional Contest
The 2006 Arab & North Africa 9th Regional Contest was hosted by Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, Nov 30 — Dec 2, 2006. All activities took place at the University except the awards ceremony which took place in the historical city of Fez.
The Participants
42 teams from 25 Universities attended the contest. Eight countries were represented: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the host country: Morocco.
The Contest
The problem-set was made of 9 problems. All problems were solved. Problem-D (“Walk Like an Egyptian”) proved to be the easiest. Problems-C (“Wooden Blocks”) and -I (“Casting Out Nines”) were popular. Only one team attempted (successfully) to solve Problem-H (“A-to-Z”). 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
E. The Great Sahara (Take a look at the judges’ cheat-sheet)
The Results
Click here for the final results, or here for the detailed results.
And the winners are…
First Place
Arab Academy for Science and Technology; Brainiacs: Ahmed Elhabashy, Moustafa Hosny, Mostafa Ezzat, Mohamed Taha (Coach)
Second Place
The American University in Cairo; AUC Challengers: Khaled Hafez, Mokhtar Khorshid, Remoun Metyas, Sherif G. Aly (Coach)
Third Place
American University of Beirut – Engineering; AUB Engineers: Hussein Al Asadi, Jad El Hage, Camille Lahoud, Hassan Artail (Coach)
Extreme Programmers
(Awarded to the team that submits the first successful run)
American University of Sharjah; Leopards 0: Hassan Muhsen, Amir Kalbasi, Abdel Same’eid Al Qaisi, Gerassimos Barlas (Coach)
Extreme Programmers
(tied with the above)
The American University in Cairo; AUC Challengers: Khaled Hafez, Mokhtar Khorshid, Remoun Metyas, Sherif G. Aly (Coach)
Steadfast Gurus
(Awarded to the team that submits the last successful run)
Institut Polytechnique ; GIPOLY: Tarik Fassali, Mariam Zrii, El Houssine Znibar, Faouzi Lakrad (Coach)
Solid Programmers
(Awarded to the team that solves the most number of problems without penalties)
Arab Academy for Science and Technology; Brainiacs: Ahmed Elhabashy, Moustafa Hosny, Mostafa Ezzat, Mohamed Taha (Coach)
Relentless Programmers
(Awarded to the team that solves a problem after the most number of wrong submissions)
Cairo University – Faculty of Computers & Information; Cairo Univ 1: Hamza Ibrahim, Mahmoud Ouda, Mostafa Ibrahim, Salwa El Gamal (Coach)
