• Top Pacific & Indochina Peninsula (PP) sub-region team(s) from this Regional Contest will advance to the 2016 ACM ICPC World Finals in Phuket, Thailand (16-20 May 2016).
• We have prepared these set of prizes worth ~S$12,000 for the following categories:
1. "Champion", "Runner-up", and "Second Runner-up"
   The "Champion", "Runner-up", and "Second Runner-up" teams are the three highest ranked teams from strictly inside the Pacific & Indochina Peninsula (PP) sub-region.
   The "Champion" team will receive 3 (three) Macbook Air, Intel Core i5, 11.6inch, LED-backlit Display, 256GB SSD, 4GB RAM.
   The "Runner-up" team will receive 3 (three) iPad Air 2, 9.7inch 64GB WiFi+4G LTE Cellular.
   The "Second Runner-up" team will receive 3 (three) iPad Mini 4, 64GB WiFi+4G.
   
2. "Best Team not in Top 3"
   The "Best Team not in Top 3" is the highest ranked team that is either inside or outside the Pacific & Indochina Peninsula (PP) sub-region who are not in the top 3 categories above.
   The team will receive 3 (three) Lenovo Ideapad 100S-14 inch laptop.
   
3. "Best Newcomer"
   The "Best Newcomer" team is the highest ranked team from a University that has never joined ACM ICPC before (the coach has to declare this fact to the RCD and the RCD has to ask ICPC manager to add that University name in ICPC system).
   In the event that there is no newcomer team that advances to this Regional Contest, this prize will go to the highest ranked newcomer team in the Preliminary Contest.
   To facilitate this possibility, the prize will be a non physical item: Amazon Vouchers worth up to 600 USD.
   Team Spear, Zaman University, Cambodia won this prize and has exchanged their 600 USD Amazon Vouchers with heavily subsidized participation in this onsite Regional Contest.
4. "First Team to Solve Problem [A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I/J/K]" as recorded by Kattis.
   There are N=11 problems posed in this Regional Contest and the first team to solve each problem will get a prize.
   The First Team to solve any problem will receive 3 (three) Samsung Galaxy Tablet Tab 4, 7inch.
   The First Team to solve subsequent N-1 other problems will receive 3 (three) Verbatim POWEBANK 10000 mAh.
   There is no limit on how many "First to Solve" prize that a single team can win.
   
• In addition, we have another set of prizes worth S$3,000 from the parallel ICPC/IBM Singapore Bluemix Challenge.
  Unfortunately, no submission is eligible for the prize.

• Only teams that qualify from the Preliminary Contest in September may participate in this Regional Contest.
  10 special requests were approved by the RCD on case by case basis.
• The same rules that were applicable to the Preliminary Contest also apply to the Regional Contest, and are detailed in the following sites:
  1. ACM ICPC Regional Rules
  2. ACM ICPC Asia Director Blog
• Additional rules specific to this Regional Contest are as follow:
  1. Contestants cannot bring any electronic device inside the contest floor (including calculator and gadget like Apple Watch)
  2. Teams who want to use their own external keyboard need to have their keyboard inspected by us first
  3. Papers and basic stationeries are provided so teams do not have to bring those inside the contest floor
  4. Contestants are not allowed to access other webpages other than https://asiasg15.kattis.com, access to the public https://open.kattis.com will be blocked from contest floor
  5. Only hard copy reference material is allowed (one set of up to 25 single-sided A4 pages of any font size per team) — this material will be verified during registration
  6. Each team can bring one printed English dictionary without any annotation and such dictionary will also be verified during registration
  7. The member of each team can only discuss the problemset among the three of them during the 5-hours contest

• Opening and Closing Ceremonies @ Auditorium 2, Stephen Riady Centre (SRC), NUS University Town (UTown) (map),
• Contest @ COM1 Seminar Room 1 (map),
  
• Campus Accommodation @ Sheares Hall (map).
• Excursion @ Universal Studios Singapore, Resort World Sentosa.

Final Schedule:

Guests may use the free NUS internal shuttle busses to commute within the campus.

UPDATE 17/11/2015: The registration period is over.

List of Advancing Teams

• Travel
  • As Singapore is a major port, there are many available flights to Singapore, from various Asian countries. Guests may even fly to Singapore on the morning of the first day of the Regional Contest, Wednesday, 9 December 2015, as registration only begin at 1pm.
  • Most Asian-country passport holders may not require a visa to enter Singapore.
  • Singapore is ranked #1 on Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2015. We welcome all Regional Contest guests to extend their stay in Singapore after the contest.
• Accommodation
  • Campus Accommodation
    • Campus hostel accommodation @ Sheares Hall are available for all foreign contestants at S$28 per night, per single-room.
    • The same accommodation is available to one coach per team at $44 per night, per single-room.
    • There is no double room available in Sheares Hall.
    • These single rooms are limited and available on First Come First Serve basis.
    • Coaches are advised to contact Mr Adi Yoga Sidi Prabawa (accommodation IC) as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
  • Hotels
    • There are several hotels within walking distance of NUS.
    • There are also many other hotels in the city centre and it is generally easy to commute to NUS Kent Ridge campus (or anywhere in Singapore) via MRT, bus, and taxi.