[TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: the 19th ICFP Programming Contest (ICFPc 2016)

[Keisuke Nakano]

########################################################################
Call for Participation: the 19th ICFP Programming Contest (ICFPc 2016)
########################################################################

The annual ICFP programming contest is just two weeks away.
This contest aims for deciding who are discriminating hackers
and whose programming languages of choice are the best.
The characteristic features of this contest are:

* There are no restriction for choices of programming languages.
 You may choose even multiple languages.

* There are no restriction for organization of teams as long as no
 member belongs to multiple teams.  This contest is open to everyone.
 Not only students but also professors and professional programmers
 are welcome to participate in.  Neither advance registration nor
 entry fee is required. There are no limit for the number of members.

* The contest will be held for 72 consecutive hours. 
 It will start at 0:00 UTC on August 5, 2016 
 and end at 0:00 UTC on August 8, 2016.

* There will also be a 24-hour lightning division for those who have
 only 24 hours to spend on the contest.  It will start at the same
 time as the regular contest and end at 0:00 UTC on August 6, 2016.
 All teams are able to participate in both regular and lightning division.

* There will be prizes for the first (US$1,000) and second ($500)
 place teams as well as a discretionary judges' prize ($500) and a
 lightning division ($500). The winners will be announced at ICFP
 2016 in Nara, Japan, on 19-21 September, 2016.

* The problem task will be informed in our website at the beginning of
 the contest.  The task varies depending on the year and organizers.  
 Any detail of the task for this year cannot be revealed before the
 contest.  The official twitter account @icfpcontest2016 may expose
 some hints (?) for this year's contest, though (don't be so serious).

For more information about the contest, please visit our website:
 http://icfpcontest.org/
Currently the website is less informative due to the character of the
contest.  The links to the past contests in the website may be helpful
for newcomers.

--
Keisuke Nakano
The University of Electro-Communications
http://millsmess.cs.uec.ac.jp/~ksk/