And with that, MCPC 21 has come to a close!

Thanks to all participants from Monash and elsewhere, we hope you enjoyed the contest!

Despite being held online, MCPC 21 ended up being one of the larger competitions we've held, and one where most teams solved at least 3 problems! This is great to see, and for those teams for which this was your first competition, hopefully you've seen that there is a lot to learn, but also a lot to enjoy :)

Congratulations to EZforUNSW for pulling ahead in the External Competition, fightUsMonash for coming second (With a last second submission for 100 points), and mqcp1 for coming third!

Additionally, Congratulations to Khoa for taking a commanding lead in the Monash Competition, followed by James, Seth and Caitlin in 2nd, and Purna, Ayden and Emmanuel in 3rd.

The spiky end of this contest proved quite difficult for most teams, with noone solving 1 problem, and many of the 100 point problems only seeing a single solve. If you'd like to practice these problems they are still publicly available, either via the virtual contest participation, or from the problem list at mcpc.club.

As for results, there is an editorial, available here , and for any further questions, feel free to chuck me an email at jackson.goerner@monash.edu

Once again, we hope you enjoyed the contest and all the best for the upcoming divisionals!

Cheers, Jackson

MCPC is set to run on Saturday the 2nd of October, 2021!

Due to the current covid situation, this contest will be held online, but we'll be doing all we can to make this as collaborative, fun and engaging as possible!

Prizes

Prizes will be awarded to teams of current Monash University students only (Honours/Masters included), with the total awarded to be split equally between team members.

• 1st Place: $450
• 2nd Place: $240
• 3rd Place: $120
• If any of the 1st/2nd/3rd Teams are gender diverse, the prize money will be doubled!

Contest Info

• The contest can be attempted by teams of size 1, 2 or 3. 3 is highly recommended as there are a lot of problems on offer!
• The contest will run for 5 hours and feature 16 new problems for you to solve. Problems range from very easy (anyone with basic knowledge of programming should be able to complete) to very hard.
• Each problem will be worth either 3, 10, 30 or 100 points, depending on the perceived difficulty.

Sign up

To sign up to the competition, only one of your team members should enter details into this form.

No entry fee, no obligation, just sign up and then we'll send out emails with further information closer to the date.

Scoring

The problems worth 3 and 10 points will have partial marks (If you pass some of the tests, you get some of the points).

The problems worth 30 and 100 points will not have partial marks (You need to pass all tests to get any marks). This is to discourage "gaming" the test cases, we only want to award efficient and general solutions.

Get in touch / Train

If you are looking for some practice problems to work on, ask on our discord.

Additionally, you can use this discord to find teammates, or just to socialise.