College Level Contests: non-ACM Regionals
The Chief Judge before David Van Brackle for the South East Regional was
Laurie White, who is a professor at Mercer University. She realized that
many teams never truly competed to win South East Regional and she wanted
to create a more laid back contest from which those students could learn
more. Thus, she started a contest for South East Regional teams at her
home school. UCF started attending the contest in 2012, to give our young
students more training. I believe many of these problems are excellent
classical problems appropriate for relatively young students. In addition,
I've included UCF's Local Contest in this category. It's a college level
contest, but not one officiall recognized by ACM-ICPC.
Finally, although UCF has an official "Try-Out" contest early in fall,
many other schools don't have a coaching staff with enough time to do
so. Thus, many North American schools got together to create one contest,
the NAQ, so that any school could use it as a try out contest for their
individual teams. As such, the scoreboard for it isn't merged, rather
a different scoreboard is kept for each school.