> Fw: To all Asia 2010 Directors - important MUST READ
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Hwang, C. Jinshong
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> To: Hwang, C. Jinshong
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> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 1:51 PM
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> Subject: To all Asia 2010 Directors - important MUST READ
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> Dear 2010 Asia Directors:
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> Wecome aboard to the new comers and to the renewed directors/coordinators.
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> Thank you very much for all of you putting students in your heart.
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> We have 15 sites in 2010 as listed at the bottom of this e-mail.
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> (1) RCD meeting in WF Harbin is required for all new directors or coordinators.  
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>       For continuing directors/coordinators, I suggest very strongly you should come.
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>       For any new person in charge of operation, they are also required to come. 
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> (2) I have reserved one ICPC paid room Feb 1- Feb 6 for each site for
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>       Attending RCD meeting. A few of you had settled the dates with me. Thanks.
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>      If you cannot come in time, please let me know now so that we can cancel
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>      a few days of hotel expenses to save ICPC money.  There will be penalty
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>      for any cancellation after January 5. 
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>     RCD meeting is in Sofitel hotel. Most students are in Shangri-la hotel. There
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>        is another #3 hotel for overflow. Shuttle bus will run among the three hotels
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>       and HbEC campus which is the contest site. (Hotel arrangement and contest
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>       site may get changed and it is my best knowledge at this point of time.)
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>        If you have another person to come to WF Harbin for RCD meeting, your people should
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>       stay in Sofitel hotel. I still keep 5 self paid rooms in Sofitel. If you want them,
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>       you need to take quick action first come first serve. By Jan 5, I will return these
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>       self paid rooms to Sofitel.  Please note that the hotel in this season of Harbin
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>       is very very tight and the weather is extremely cold.
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> (3) This is the year (2009 for 2010) first time I encountered the slots allocation
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>       difficulties. There were many cries outside of China: "Too many Chinese teams".
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>       Actually it is the same: 19 teams for 2009 and 2010. HbEU is the host team and
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>       is not counted. Outside of China is increased from 16 to 17. There were also
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>       many cries inside Mainland China: " We do not get enough of our shares."
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>       To solve the problem, I had got approval from Dr. Poucher to split Asia into
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>       3 or 5 sub-regions. The proposed guidelines are as follows:
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> (4) Asia new proposed guidelines:
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>     (i) Asia is still one region so that teams can still go to two sites.
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>     (ii) Asia is split into three sub-regions:
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>          Mainland China and HK;
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>          East and SouthEast Asia: Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia,
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>                                   Philippines, Indonesia, and etc
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>                                  (Mongolia can choose either China or East Asia)
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>          West, South and Central Asia: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Srilanka,
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>                                  Iran, 5 Central Asia countries, and etc.
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>      (iii) Team can attend at most two sites in their own one sub-region. Teams can
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>            go to other sub-regions be ranked and be awarded, but no WF slots be allocated.
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>     (iv)  WF slots will be assigned by Dr. Poucher or approved by Dr. Poucher for each
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>             sub-region according to their performance. The scores of performance is same
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>             depending on (ACCEPTED) teams only (PENDING not counted):
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>                  # of distinct schools   is a major factor (including first round online contest.)
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>                 # of distinct second teams             minor factor
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>                 Geographical balance is a medium factor
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>                 # of teams beyond second team is a small factor
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>                Host teams in the boarder line to be selected is a factor
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>                # of Provincial teams and non-host national teams in ICPC is a fraction factor
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>       (v) The allocation of slots in each sub-region may use my old formula of  0.3/0.5,
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>             0.3/0.6, or 0.4/0.7 ect. as situation demands.
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>  (5) There is a new condition which I have required for several new comers or reneweds:
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>        Each of you need to accept either condition (a) or condition (b) of the following and
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>       I will publicize your acceptance:       
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>  
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> (a) No host team can be advanced to WF from the host university site.
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> But the host team may get some preference from other sites.
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> The preference was given to Asia Director to decide. Asia Director will use
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>  it to move up that host team by 1 or more rankings in other sites when
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>  deciding the WF slots; AND
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>       A team can not be advanced to WF, if the problem setter/judge is from
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> the same university as that of the team.
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>       OR
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>       (b) The problem setters/judges of the host site must be a committee of at least 5 members.  
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>            If any problem setter/judge committee member expects  his/her university team may
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>             advance to WF, that member and that university must not contribute more than one
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>             contest problem.
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>          Known Acceptance (a): All 5 sites in China, Dhaka, Kuala Lumpur,  Amritapuri, ( Phuket 2011)
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>          Known Acceptance (b): Hanoi, and
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>             I know the following sites are doing (b): Tokyo, Taiwan, Korea, please confirm.
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>           ? Unknown acceptance status: Tehran, Kharagpur, Lahore
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> (6) I will stop here for today. Thanks a lot.