Colorado School of Mines

📌  Main Address

📌  Contest Location

Marquez Hall 026

The contest will be held in Marquez Hall, Room 026. Marquez Hall is located at the corner of Arapahoe St. and 16th St in Golden, CO. You may view the campus interactive map here.

📌  Parking

A map of parking lots and other parking information are available here. Parking is free after 5 PM on weekdays and all day on weekends. The CT (sometimes labeled CTLM) lot is the most convenient for accessing the contest location. 

📌  Check-In Time and Location

Friday, October 30th from 5:30 – 9:00 PM at the contest location or Saturday, October 31st from 8:30 – 9:20 AM at the contest location. See above for location and parking.

📌  Contest Schedule

All contest activities will be hosted at the contest location. See above for location and parking. The practice time (on Friday night) and the actual competition (on Saturday) will be held in the computer labs in Marquez Hall (MZ 026).

Friday, October 30

Saturday, October 31

📌  Contest Schedule

The official practice time will be Friday from 7:00-9:00PM. Practice will be held at the Contest Location. The regional judges will operate their servers and contestants will be given a few practice problems that parallel the format of the actual problems on Saturday. All teams are strongly encouraged to attend. This gives you a chance to be familiar with the contest, systems, tools and debugging techniques prior to the contest. It also allows us to ensure that there are no errors in how teams are set up, that everyone can submit to the system, etc.

There will be NO official practice time on Saturday before the contest. The contest runs from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, and is sometimes slightly extended for fairness purposes. Teams are requested to wear the official contest shirts during the competition if they get one.

📌  Computing Environment

Each team will be provided a workstation with a Linux configuration akin to the world-finals environment.

We will be using the Kattis online judge for the contest. The official programming languages supported for the contest are: C, C++, Java, Kotlin and Python 3.

📌  Allowed Materials

Any printed material that was created prior to the contest will be allowed.

📌  Hotel

Guests staying Friday night can book at one of the many hotels in town. There is no specific hotel that we recommend, nor are there rooms blocked or a special rate for the contest.

📌  Food/Menu

We will provide dinner on Friday evening and lunch on Saturday (during the contest). Some snacks will be available before the contest on Saturday.

You may bring your own food/beverages/snacks if you wish. Please note there is no food allowed in the competition rooms.

If you have special dietary needs, please let us know. We will do our best to meet these requests and will let you know what to expect. We already have vegetarian options planned.

📌  Contact Information

Tolga Can – tolgacan@mines.edu