Registration Notes
Registration Rules
Participants
Mathematics and algorithm enthusiasts from around the world
Contest type
Team competition + Coaching
Team formation: Each team may have at most four people, including a team
leader.
Team leader: The team leader creates the team. As the team's contact person
for the organizers, the team leader shall
receive any prize money on behalf of their team.
Coach: This Challenge provides a coach reward plan, which encourages participating
teams to invite domain-specific
teachers to act as coaches and help the contestants improve their problem-solving skills
during the contest. A coach
cannot be a contestant on the team. Failure to provide coach information during
registration is deemed as a decision not
to participate in the coach reward plan.
How to Register
Step 1: The team leader scans the registration QR
code or visits the contest platform at https://imc25.kattis.com/, then clicks “Log in to
the contest” to register or log in with an existing Kattis account.
Step 2: After logging in, the team leader returns to
the contest page and clicks “Join the contest” → “Create a new team”
to set up a team.
Step 3: On the“Teams” page,
the team leader clicks
“Invite” → “Generate invite link” to create exclusive invitation
links and sends it
separately to team members and the coach.
Notes:
Please read carefully the “Conditions
and Rules of Participation” and the “Pravicy
Policy before registration.
Submissions, Winner Selection, and Prizes
Submissions,
Winner Selection, and Prizes
During this Challenge, there will be two rounds of winner selection and prizes for
each problem. In Round 1, winners are
selected based on their code. In Round 2, winners are selected based on their code and
articles. This section provides
information about submission requirements, winner selection rules, and the prizes for Round
1 and Round 2. For more
information about the timeline of each problem, see the "About the Problems" section.
Notes:
(1) Given that writing an article takes time, the last day
of
article submission is 10 days later than the last day of code submission. Please keep
the deadline for article submission in mind and make necessary preparations.
(2) If submissions are found to be too similar during the
review,
the relevant
teams may be disqualified.
(3) Applicable time zone for all problems: UTC+08:00.
Outstanding teams in Round 1: Top 18 teams
(1) Contestants log in to Kattis to submit code for the
problem
before the
deadline.
(2) The review team for the problem performs a review based
on
the rank lists on
Kattis, and announces the list of
winners in Round 1 on this website. See the “About the Problems” section – Problem
timeline
– Round 1 results released.
(3) Prizes for Round 1 (All amounts post-tax):
Top 1–3 teams:
EUR6,000 per team
Top 4–9 teams:
EUR3,000 per team
Top 10–18 teams:
EUR1,000 per team
Outstanding teams in Round 2: Top 10 teams
(selected based on code and articles) and their coaches
(1) After Round 1 results are announced, each of the top 40 teams must
write
an article
using
the template and submit it
in PDF format to challenge4IMC@huawei.com before the
deadline.
Teams that fail to submit an
article before the deadline
will be disqualified from consideration during Round 2. Click here to download
the template
.
(2) The review teams of problems read and score the articles
based
on their
abstract, assumptions and symbols, analysis
of the problem, model building, model solving, model summarizing, test results
description,
references and appendices,
and structure and typesetting.
(3) In Round 2, the total score is 100 points, with 60
allocated
to the code
submitted in Round 1, and 40 allocated to
the article submitted in Round 2.
(4) Prizes for Round 2 (All amounts post-tax):
Top 1 team:
EUR3,000 for the team,
EUR1,500 for the coach
Top 2–4 teams:
EUR2,000 per team,
EUR1,000 per coach
Top 5–10 teams:
EUR1,000 per team,
EUR800 per coach
(5) Coach reward plan for the coaches of outstanding teams
in
Round 2:
Within two weeks after Round 2 results are announced, coaches of
the top 10 teams
should submit a summary of their
coaching experience using
the template
to challenge4IMC@huawei.com.
Failure to provide
a summary of coaching
experience on time is deemed as a decision not to participate in the coach reward
plan.
(6) The Round 2 results will be released on this website.
See the
“About the
Problems” section – Problem timeline –
Round 2 results released.
In addition to the above prizes, the top 100 teams will also be given
opportunities to meet Fields medalists and problem
authors face to face, and visit Huawei's campuses around the world.
