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Rocky Mountain Regional ICPC Host Site

Colorado School of Mines

Main Address

1500 Illinois St
Golden, CO 80401

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, November 3 from 5:30 - 9:00 PM at the contest location. See above for location and parking. Saturday, November 4 from 10:30 - 11:30 AM at the contest location. See above for location and parking.

CONTEST SCHEDULE

All contest activities will be hosted at contest location. See above for location and parking.

Friday, November 3

Time   Activity
5:30-9:00 PM   Check in
5:30-6:30 PM   Pizza
6:30-7:00 PM   Instructions
7:00-9:00 PM   Official practice time

Saturday, November 4

Time   Activity
9:30-10:30 AM   Late check-in
10:00 AM   Breakfast (sandwiches) available
10:30-10:50 AM   Meeting for all contestents
11:00 AM -4:00 PM   COMPETITION / Snacks available at 1:00
4:00-4:30 PM   Results calculation
~5:00-5:30 PM   Results announcement

PRACTICE TIME

The official practice time will be on Friday evening, 7:00-9:00. 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.

There will be NO official practice time on Saturday before the contest. The contest runs from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, and is sometimes slightly extended for fairness purposes. Teams are recommended to wear contest shirts during the competition if they get one.

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Each team will get one Linux machine with the following configuration.

Ubuntu 22.04
vi/vim, gvim, emacs, gedit, geany, kate
Eclipse, IntelliJ, CLion (may require a JetBrains account), PyCharm, Code::Blocks, Visual Studio Code
Java (OpenJDK) 17
gcc/g++ 11.3.0
Python 3
Kotlin 1.7

HOTEL

Guests staying Friday night can book at one of the many hotels near campus. There is not a specific hotel that we recommend, nor are there rooms blocked or a special rate for the contest.

FOOD

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.

Friday evening: Pizza Saturday lunch: Sandwiches Saturday snacks: TBD

CONTACT INFORMATION