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-Hey All!
-\\ The ACM Contest is great fun and great experience.
-\\ Do come out.
-  * Contests at York
-     * Times  7:30-9:30pm in LAS 1002 (Or from home)
-         * Thu Sept 20
-         * Tue Sept 25
-         * Mon Oct 1
-         * Tue Oct 9
-     * We will have 3 problems to code up
-     * In your favorite programing language.
-     * Easy, medium, harder.
-     * You have two hours.
-     * Make and account and check out problems
-     * https://open.kattis.com/problems
-   * Choose teams: Generally two teams of three.
-     * by Wed Oct 17
-   * Practice with teams
+[[https://open.kattis.com/contests/ryqwwr/problems|Oct 16 2018 contest]]
-     * Oct 17-Nov 8
-     * We can practice with you some and you can practice some by yourself.
-     * Many have not taken 3101 so dont know dynamic programming.
-   * ACM Contest over night in Windsor
-     * The 2018 ACM ICPC East Central NA Regional Programming Contest
-     * Fri Nov 9-10
-     * I will go with you.
-     * I will have to find a car or two (or bus) and hotel rooms
-     * http://acm-ecna.ysu.edu
-     * http://acm-ecna.ysu.edu/registration.html
-  * Prize
-     * We choose a prize for the best lower year person who gets their name on a cup.
-  * More contests Feb-Mar
-  * If you want to email people on the ACM mailing list, just send a message to acmlist@eecs.yorku.ca
+[[https://open.kattis.com/contests/gi7vgz/problems|Oct 1 2018 contest]]
+[[https://open.kattis.com/contests/dqdbnx/problems|Sept 25 2018 contest]]
+[[https://open.kattis.com/contests/iurjfr/problems|Sept 20 2018 contest]]
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-We had three fun practice competitions in the Winter of 2018
+Two teams represented York at the 2018 regional programming contest.
+They competed against 98 teams including multiple from Waterloo, U of T, MIT, ....
+I am afraid that the problems this year really were too hard.
+The red team (Justin Su, Chonglun Allen Chen, and Phan Ngoc Tien) ranked 9th on the practice run and 41th on the hard problems. They were very close to getting another of the problem. For me this is respectable. Everyone ranked 61-98 got zero problems
+solved, as was the case with our gold team (Junlin Chen, Hoang Minh, and Jacob Jae). They were just on the edge of getting a few of them. Also respectable.
+We had lots of fun and it is great job preparation.
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-Many people participated.
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+Some students recently went on a Lassonde-organized trip to Silicon
-We are proud to announce that Justin Su preformed the best. Congratulations to him.
+Valley, where they met with York alumni who are now working for the
+big software companies out there.  Among the alumni were Andrew
+Evdokimov and Joy Choi, who both told the current students that doing
+the practice contests were extremely useful preparation for them to
+make it through the interview process at Google and end up with jobs
+they really like.  So, students are benefiting from the contest
+preparations.
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