General Rules
The ACM ICPC regional contest rules can be found at the ICPC regionals web site: ICPC Regional Rules for 2012
In addition to these rules, the following local rules apply:
Team Composition
- A student may compete if he is eligible according to the 2012 ICPC Regionals Eligibility Diagram.
- A team consists of 3 eligible students.
- A certain educational institution may send up to two teams to the North Western European Regional Contest. Team places (two per institution) are assigned on a first-come first-served basis, upon verification of eligibility.
- The educational institutions must be from Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark or Germany. By special request teams from other countries may be allowed to participate in this region, as stated in the ICPC Regional Rules.
- All teams who want to participate have to check-in at the registration desk. The location of the registration desk and the office hours will be announced to the participants in advance.
- The North Western European Regional Contest organizers are absolutely not responsible for the accommodation (unless booked together with local registration) or other expenses of the teams.
- Appropriate insurance (e.g. against accidents or diseases) is in the responsibility of each team.
Contest Material
We follow the World Finals' Rules, so a team is allowed to bring 3 copies of their Team Reference document, but not allowed to bring any addiontional reference materials such as books, program listings and notes! You may not bring any electronic device or machine readable media (this includes but is not limited to cell phones, digital cameras, and mp3 players). You may bring pens or pencils, but not paper (these will be provided). Winter coats, bags etc should not be brought to the contest floor.
Each contestant may bring a copy of a Team Reference Document. This document may contain up to 25 pages of reference materials, single-sided, letter or A4 size, with pages numbered in the upper right-hand corner and your university name printed in the upper left-hand corner. Text and illustrations must be readable by a person with correctable eyesight without magnification from a distance of 1/2 meter. It may include hand-written comments and corrections on the fronts of pages only. The document should be in some type of notebook or folder with the name of your institution on the front
Each team member may bring one printed, unannotated natural language dictionary. You may bring mascots such as stuffed toy animals or party hats (provided they do not violate any of the above constraints). If there is some other item your team needs at the contest, please contact the Head of Jury.
As previous years, teams are allowed to bring at most one simple keyboard to replace the keyboard provided by us (US-layout).
Programming Languages
Allowed programming languages are C, C++ and Java. These are the languages provided in the World finals. (For detailed information review the system page.)
