Author: Tim French

Hi all, I hope your semester is going well. We have (belatedly) managed to put together some flyers to help promote the SPAR contests. I would be great if you could share these around your campus! We also have alternative designs, like this and this. All the best!

Congratulations to kiekie from Monash and Jlyfish_want_a_job from UNSW for solving the full SPAR 2 set last week. Scoreboard is up. SPAR 3 is running 9th April (today) and is a 90 minute sprint, starting at 5:15pm AEST. (Note the switch from AEDT to AEST, so if you don’t partake in daylight savings, it will…

SPAR round 2 is a sprint coming up on April 2 (a Wednesday) at 5:15pm AEDT. The contest will be shorter and easier, and only runs for 90 minutes, so it’s a great opportunity to get started with competitive programming. You just need a development environment (with no AI or web) and a web browser…

The first SPAR of the year is running on March 8, starting at 12 noon AEDT. SPAR (South Pacific Algorithmic Rounds) (formerly ANZAC) is a series of practice contests for the ICPC, and you can self register and complete in a team of up to three people. The problem set will be available through the…

Thanks to Everyone who participated in the first IMC Programming Contest. More than 250 high school and university students competed on the day, and a challenging problem set kept everyone busy for 3 hours.  Congratulations to Anatol Coen and Nathan Zhou who solved the entire set! You can find the final scoreboard at https://sppcontests.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/imc-prelim-scoreboard-2025.html Thank you…