2009 ICPC Challenge

The 2009 ICPC Contest featured an offering of the ICPC Challenge. In the weeks leading up to the finals, world finals teams were able to download the problem, upload their player code and compete with each other in preliminary matches.

Problem Overview

The 2009 ICPC Challenge problem was a simple game called Capture. Two players each control three playing pieces and compete to convert game pucks to their own color. The game introduction video is an xvid-encoded file showing how the game is played.

Problem Binary

The 2009 ICPC Challenge is over, but you can still try out the problem yourself. The Challenge problem distribution binary contains everything you need to code your own player and try out the game yourself.

2009 Final Tournament

2009 Preliminary Results

The coding phase for the 2009 ICPC Challenge ran for two weeks. Each day we ran matches between the latest versions of submitted players. Each player was matched with three randomly selected opponents, and the following table reports the number of these matches won by each team. The rankings from these preliminary matches didn't directly contribute to the final results, but teams with a better ranking were given a bye in the first round of the tournament.