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 of
the
problem to open the
registration page, and fills out the required information to complete registration. Once
registration is finished, a team QR code is generated, which the team leader shares with
their team members.
Step 2: Each team member scans the team QR code to
fill out
the
required
information on the registration page and complete registration.
Notes:
(1) A registration QR code is provided for each problem.
Any
contestant who intends to work on multiple problems should register for each problem
separately.
(2) To register for a problem, team members should scan the
team
QR code shared by their team leader, rather than the registration QR code of the
problem.
(3) During registration, contestants who already have a
Kattis
account should use the e-mail address they used when creating their Kattis account. Once
the Challenge begins, these contestants can log in to Kattis with their own account and
password.
(4) Contestants without a Kattis account will receive one,
along
with a password, after registration;
(5) Please read carefully the “Conditions
and Rules of Participation” and the “Protection
of Personal Data 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 one week 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 20 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 4–10 teams:
EUR3,000 per team
Top 11–20 teams:
EUR1,000 per team
Top 100 teams and their coaches:
One T-shirt per person
Outstanding teams in Round 2: Top 40 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:
EUR4,000 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
Top 11–20 teams:
EUR800 per team,
EUR500 per coach
Top 21–40 teams and coaches:
One HUAWEI FreeBuds
per person
(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 40 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.
