2012 Asia Director's Message from Prof C J Hwang:

Message from ICPC Asia Director Prof C J Hwang:
A letter in response to Prof J’s questions

1. I have posted two Asia blogs: ICPCAsia.blogspot.com and Hi.baidu.com/cjhwang. Google’s blogspot.com is not accessible to users located in Mainland China.
Baidu’s blog new software can not handle indentation from left margin and can not keep word together in the right margin either. I have tried my best to separate line from line to increase readability in Baidu’s blog.
The new rule changes of 2012 are marked with light red and light blue in Google’s Blogspot.com and marked with bold face in Baidu’s blog.

2. Limitations to Singapore Teams (Same applicable to Hong Kong teams):
(Please pay attention to 2012 Asia rules Item III.D.4.(g) and III.D.4.(h).

      (a)  Singapore can have at most one team advanced to WF from all of the following 6 sites in the entire Pacific-Peninsula Sub-region which includes Daejeon, Jarkata, Hatyai, Kaohsiung, Tokyo, Hanoi.

      (b) Singapore can have many teams advanced to WF if they are qualified in any China site (Continent East Sub-region; Chinese courtesy !!!)

      (c) Singapore can not have any WF share from (Continent West) Tehran, Dhaka, and 3 sites in India unless there is offer from Contest Site Director and with Asia Director’s approval.

3. Foreign teams (like Singapore) may skip the online contest (usual case)with approval by the host.

4. All teams’ registration must go thru online sub-contest for domestic teams and thru foreign teams sub-contest for foreign teams unless otherwise specified by contest site committee.