The
University
of
Waterloo's
ACM
competition
teams
dominated
at
the
2016
Association
for
Computing
Machinery International
Collegiate
Programming
Contest
East
Central
North
America
Regional
Programming
Contest,
held
October
29,
2016.
The
programming
contest
took
place
at
the
University
of
Windsor
and
was
the
qualifying
contest
for
the
ACM
ICPC
World
Finals
for
teams
from
Ontario,
Michigan,
Indiana,
Ohio,
and
Western
Pennsylvania.
All
five
of
Waterloo's
competition
teams
placed
in
the
top
10*,
with
Waterloo
Royal
Blue
(Jacob
Jackson, 2A
Computer
Science
| Timothy
Li, 1A
Computer
Science
| Antonio
Molina
Lovett, 4A
Mathematics) placing
first
and
solving
all
10
problems
in
224
minutes.
"I
am
very
proud
of
the
effort
all
these
students
put
into
the
competition,"
said
coach
Troy Vasiga.
"They
have
practiced
every
weekend
in
October
and
worked
extremely
well
together
as
teams."
The
2016
ECNA
contest
saw
126
registered
teams
competing for
first
place
in
the
five-hour,
10
problem
contest.
The
contest
included
writing algorithms
to
read
input
and
produce
the
correct
output.
The
ranking
of
teams
is
by
number
of
problems
solved,
then
by penalty
time —
the
number
of
minutes
past
the
start
of
the contest
when
you
submit
a
correct
solution
to
a
problem,
plus
20
minutes per
incorrect
submission
to
a
problem.
Every
September
and
October
preliminary
local
competitions
are
held
and
are
open
to
all
students
from
all
faculties
with
other
competitions
occurring
throughout
the
winter
and
spring
terms.
Some
students
come
to
the
University
already
battle-hardened
from
the
International
Olympiad
in
Informatics,
Canadian
Computing
Olympiad,
and
Top
Coder
competitions.
Others
had
learned
programming
only
days
before
they
compete.
Congratulations
to
all
participants
and
coaches Ondřej
Lhoták,
Troy
Vasiga
and
student
coach
Andy
Huang for
this
strong
showing.
Waterloo's
Royal
Blue
will
represent
Waterloo
at
the
ACM
ICPC
World
Finals,
to
be held
in
Rapid
City,
South
Dakota,
May
2017.
They
will
compete
against 130
other
teams
from
around
the
world
who
are
also
the
best
teams
in their
particular
geographical
region.
2016
competition
teams
-
Royal
Blue
|
first
place
Jacob
Jackson, 2A Computer
Science
Timothy Li, 1A Computer
Science
Antonio Molina Lovett, 4A Mathematics
Black
|
second
place
Renato
Ferreira, 3B
Computer
Science
David
Choi, 1st
Year
Masters,
Computer
Science
Ted
Ying, 3B
Software
Engineering
White
|
fourth
place
Andy
Rock, 2A Computer
Science
Jeffrey Xiao, 1A Software
Engineering
Fengyang Wang, 3A Mathematics
Gold
|
fifth
place
Joakim
Blikstad, 1A
Computer
Science
Sean
Purcell, 2A
Software
Engineering
Farbod
Yadegarian, 1A
Computer
Science
Red
|
eigth
place
Ben
Zhang, 2A
Computer
Science
Felix
Bauckholt, 2B
Mathematics
Nimesh
Ghelani,
first
year
Masters,
Computer
Science
*Official
results