2015 Asia Tsukuba Regional will be held on 28-30th, November. Details are here.

11月22日にアジア地区予選台中大会(台湾)が開かれ、日本からも複数のチームが参加しました。大学別順位3位(チーム別7位)に京都大学、同4位(8位)に筑波大学が入り、以下、大阪府立高専(8,18位)、会津大学(11,23位)、京都産業大学(14,29位)、専修大学(15,30位)と続きました。アジア各国から70チームが集う大きな大会での素晴らしい成績と言えます。(順位表、写真)
なお、アジア地区のルールで、選手は同一年度内に二箇所までアジア大会に参加することができます。また、今年7月に行われた日本国内予選において優秀な成績を修めた2チームには、情報科学国際交流財団より海外大会参加のための旅費が補助されています。

東京大学のチームが11月1日アジア地区予選クアラルンプール大会に参加し、優勝しました。

アジア各国から11ヶ国54チームが集う大きな大会で、参加者には素晴らしい経験になったと思います。なお、アジア地区のルールで、選手は同一年度内に二箇所までアジア大会に参加することができます。今年7月に行われた日本国内予選において優秀な成績を修めた2チームには、情報科学国際交流財団より海外大会参加のための旅費が補助されています。

ACM-ICPCアジア地区予選東京大会当日の表彰式でのスピーチを掲載します。

Good evening everyone. I am Kiminori Utsunomiya, the chairperson of International Information Science Foundation. On behalf of International Information Science Foundation, which organized this Asia Regional Contest in Tokyo, I would like to say a few words of gratitude.

At the outset, to all the participants, I appreciate the hard work you have been doing since early this morning.

ACM’s Programming Contest has been held every year since 1977, as part of their student education program. The number of participants has grown rapidly; last year there were about 40,000 participants from about 2,300 universities worldwide, undoubtedly making this the premier international competition in programming.
This is the seventeenth time that the Asia Regional Contest has been held in Japan. This year, 326 teams from 72 universities participated in the Japanese preliminary contest.
I am very proud of recent results. In June this year, four competitors of last Asian Regional Contest had great performances at the World Finals held in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Peking University and National Taiwan University won the gold medals, Shanghai JiaoTong University and the University of Tokyo won the silver medals.

Last year, we were able to increase the number of competitors as a result of our newly created “Ikebe Special Berth”. It was realized by the efforts of the former chairperson, Professor Yasuhiko Ikebe, who was hoping that more university students would participate in the Asia Regional Contest.

At this point, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the people who helped make this such a wonderful event. Without their help, this would never have come to fruition.
First, I would like to thank the Director of this Regional Contest, Associate Professor Hironori Washizaki of Waseda University, for realizing such a tremendous event.
My appreciation also goes to Steering Committee Members, all student volunteers, ICPC Secretaries and Japanese Alumni Group. Without all of your support, the participants may not have been able to program at the best of their abilities
I would also like to thank the Chief Judge, Associate Professor Tetsuro Tanaka of the University of Tokyo along with all of the judges who made sure that all decisions would be fair. This is not an easy task, and I really commend them. Without their hard work, and the resulting appropriate set of problems, this contest would not have been a success.

I would further like to thank the following 21 Japanese industrial sponsors:
IBM Japan, Ltd.
Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.
AtCoder Inc.
CANON INC.
DreamArts Corporation
DWANGO Co., Ltd.
Fixstars Corporation　　
FUJITSU LIMITED
Google Japan Inc.
KLab Inc.　　　
LINE Corporation　　
Preferred Infrastructure, Inc.　　
Softfront
Wantedly, Inc.
WORKS APPLICATIONS CO., LTD.
Yahoo Japan Corporation
GREE, Inc.
M. SOFT CO., LTD.
NISSEICOM, LIMITED
NTT COMWARE CORPORATION
You works Corporation

I would also like to thank the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, and all other entities that supported this event.

Last but not least, I would like to thank each and every one of you for participating in this event. If it wasn’t for each of you, the 5 teams from Asia, and the 35 teams from Japan, this event would never have been such a success. Thank you once again.

I hope everyone had a great time here. And I hope that the team that goes to the World Finals will become world champions.
Although this event is about to end in a while, I hope you will get to know each other, and that the friends you make today will last forever.

ACM-ICPCアジア地区予選東京大会が無事に終了しました。海外からの5チームを含めた40チームが参加し、プログラミングや問題解決の能力と技術をチームで競いました。詳しくは、公式サイトの「問題」や「順位表」をご覧ください。優勝は東京大学のチーム「!#$%&()*+-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~」でした。
本大会のホストである早稲田大学と、協賛いただいた各社、そして多数のスタッフ・ボランティアに支えられて、今年も無事に開催することができました。

昨年好評を博した動画配信は、今年もニコニコ生放送で行われました。おかげさまで今年も好評で、累計来場者数は千人を超えています。

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世界大会は、2015年5月にモロッコで予定されています。アジアから世界大会に進出する大学(1チーム1大学)は35の枠があり、アジア各地の全18の地区予選大会の結果を総合して決められます。例年は、12月以降に発表されています。