Author: Tim French

  • ICPC2024 World Final Today!

    The 46th and 47th ICPC World Finals are being held today in Luxor, Egypt. You can follow the action at https://www.youtube.com/live/an5sBhtktaE?si=WGcXC2vhlWAnHza8, and on the SPCPA discord https://discord.gg/ekYUmZkK. Best of luck to the two UNSW Sydney teams, and the two University of Melbourne teams. Also, congratulations to Raveen De Silva on being recognised as a Master…

  • SPAR24 #3 Results

    The SPAR24 #3 results are no available at https://sppcontests.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/scoreboard.html. A bit of a tougher contest this time. Congratulations to SushiPizza (UNSW), ryno (UNSW) and DC (ANU) on your gold medals. Next Contest will be a fill five hour contest on April 27. Hope to see you there!

  • SPAR24 Round 2

    Thanks everyone for competing in the SPAR Round 2 and congratulations to 827MDEL (UNSW, 1st) and DC(ANU, 2nd) for completing 5/6 of the problems. SPAR Round 3 is just a week away and is another sprint. It was great to see 4 different universities at the top of the scoreboard, and 90 teams with a…

  • SPAR 2 this Wednesday

    The Next SPAR contest is a sprint, running for 90 minutes from 5.15pm to 6.45pm AEDT on March 20. The problem set will be shorter, so get a team together for quick fire problem solving. There will be another sprint the same time the following week.

  • SPAR 1

    Thanks to all the people who came to the first SPAR contest for 2024. It was great to see more than 100 teams solving problems. Congratulations to sushipizza (UNSW), DC (ANU) and RuntimeTerror for solving the full set. Full set of results are at https://contest.sppcontests.org/public.