Standings of

The 1999 ACM Southern Africa Programming Contest

Sponsored by IBM

Hosted by the University of Pretoria

Additional locations at Rhodes University and the University of Cape Town

Date of Contest: Saturday, 18 September 1999

 

On Saturday the 18th of September, students from all over Southern Africa participated simultaneously in three different locations: Pretoria, Grahamstown and Cape Town. A total of 31 teams representing 6 different universities participated in the contest: 2 teams from Rhodes University, 2 teams from the University of Cape Town, 1 team from the University of Stellenbosch, 2 teams from the University of the Western Cape, 3 teams from the University of the Witwatersrand and 21 teams from the University of Pretoria.

Final Standings

The following standings are final (in terms of teams), even though some team members names have not been entered.

Position

Team name

Team members

University

Problems solved

Total time (incl. penalties)

1

TUKS 14

Jaco Cronje, , Danie Conradie, Gerhard Bijker

Pretoria

5

12h14:30

2

WITS 1

Goolam-Hussein Railoun, Richard Coppin, Paul Cook

Witwatersrand

5

12h44:10

3

TUKS 16

Graeme Pyle, James Pun, Roy Kfir

Pretoria

5

18h10:56

4

TUKS 3

Hein van Eeden, Tobie du Plessis

Pretoria

3

10h23:24

5 tie

TUKS 1

Bianca Neethling, Jason Neale, Warren Kemm

Pretoria

3

10h39:00

5 tie

UCT 4

???

Cape Town

3

10h39:00

7

SUN 1

Carl Scheffler, Cobus Combrink, Ben Bredenkamp

Stellenbosch

3

11h12:00

8

UCT 2

???

Cape Town

3

11h20:00