Rules

General Rules of the III BXComp – 3rd Programming Championship of Information Systems for Freshmen – 2013.

Participation

In order to participate in the III BXComp, the student must meet the following requirements:

• Be enrolled at EACH-USP’s courses IAA (Introduction to Algorithms Analysis) and AED1 (Algorithms and Data Structures I);
• Have registered at the Information Systems undergraduate program in 2013;

• The student cannot have made transfer credits for any courses related to programming or data structures, except for the ones equivalent to IP (Introduction to Programming).

Subscription

To subscribe the interested student must constitute his team, consisting of three students at least and at most four students, and fill the team registration form available at the championship’s website (http://each.uspnet.usp.br/petsi/bxcomp2013/?page_id=97 ). Subscriptions of students that were competitors of programming championships in a national level will not be accepted, except for the Olimpíada Brasileira de Informática (OBI). Each team must have a name, which must not make reference to profanities or pejorative words.

Subscriptions can be done from August 10 to August 24 of 2013

Observations:

1. No subscription tax will be charged;
2. The number of teams is restricted to the physical capacity of two SI labs (around 30 teams);
3. The championship will be held if at least three teams are registered.

Realization

The championship will consist of seven rounds, with a score system. The rounds will occur as the schedule below, in one of the SI labs (third corridor of the Ciclo Básico building, 2nd floor). All the rounds will happen at 2:00 p.m.

Rules

1. Each competitor is only allowed to be in one team.
2. The teams will be ranked according to their points on every round.
3. In the competition days, each team must have at least 2 present competitors. Otherwise, the team will be considered absent and will not score any points on that round.
4. Only competitors that are present personally at the laboratory where the round will be executed can participate in the round.
5. Late competitors cannot participate in the championship round. Competitors that arrive after the exit of first team will be considered late.
6. There are no coaches for any team. The teams are composed only by the competitors.
7. On each round, one or more challenges will be presented, and each one will be worth a number of points previously determined.
8. Each team will have 2 hours to solve the challenge(s) of the round.
9. Each round will have a maximum score of 12 points, which are associated with the number of challenges correctly submitted by the team.

• An exception will happen at the Quantica round, that will be explained and disclosed during the execution of the championship.

10.  At the end of the championship, in case of tie in the ranking, the following criteria, in the presented order, will be used to choose the best team, among the tied ones.

• 1^st The lowest sum of “time of challenges” resolution during the championship.
• 2^nd The lowest sum of  “submissions of wrong resolutions” during the championship.
• 3^rd The highest sum of “submissions of correct resolutions” during the championship.
• 4^th The lowest sum of the team’s absences during the championship.

11.  At the end of each round, the ranking will be updated according to the total score of the score and will be available on the championship’s website. The result of the penultimate round will not be available before the end of the championship.
12.  It is prohibited the communication between the teams during the rounds.
13.  It is prohibited the use of any reference material during the rounds.
14.  It is prohibited to exit the laboratory during the round.
15.  Demonstrations of bad behavior, like speak perjuries or rising from the chair in order to take the attention of the other teams are not allowed. Teams that disrespect this rule will be adverted, at the third warning the team will be disqualified from the round.
16.  The teams that disobey the rules 12, 13 and 14 will not score in the Ranking on the corresponding round.
17.  In case of plagiarism, the teams involved will be disqualified until one of them takes the blame
18.  All the teams that attend to, at least, 70% of the championship, will receive a certificate of participation and the top three teams will receive the III BXComp exclusive medals.

Of the final considerations

1. The PET-SI group is not responsible for any kind of failure in the laboratory infrastructure. However, before every round, a checking procedure is made in order to assure that only working machines will be used. If any adverse problem happens, the organization has autonomy to make crisis management decisions.
2. Any cases not foreseen in this set of rules will be analyzed by the championship organization.