2025 S1 Beginner Competition
MAPS 2025 S1 Beginner Programming Competition
Sign up: monashaps.com/beginner
You may compete in a team of 1–3 people. If you compete as a team, you may only use 1 device during the competition.
Schedule
- 11am – 12pm: Introduction to competitive programming
- 12pm – 3pm: Competition time! (with food)
- 3pm – 4pm: Debrief. Go through solutions to competition problems
Prizes
You must compete in person and be a current student at Monash University to be eligible for prizes. However, you may still participate in the contest online.
To be eligible for the first year category, your entire team must have begun at Monash no earlier than Semester 2, 2024, and for an undergraduate degree.
First year teams are eligible for prizes in both categories. You may only receive one prize and if up for a prize in both categories, you will receive whichever is largest; if both are equal you will receive the prize in the general category.
General
- 1st Place: $100
- 2nd Place: $60
- 3rd Place: $40
First Year
- 1st Place: $100
- 2nd Place: $60
- 3rd Place: $40
Problems
Problem | Points | AC Rate | Users |
---|---|---|---|
Sushi Conveyor Belt Saga: The Missing Plate! | 100 | 23.3% | 43 |
Money Mismanagement | 100 | 40.2% | 44 |
Honourable Job | 100 | 26.9% | 40 |
Tea Party | 100 | 36.0% | 34 |
Prime Cut | 100 | 9.1% | 3 |
Misere Business | 100 | 16.2% | 18 |
Prime Protocol | 100 | 12.3% | 10 |
5 Big Booms | 100 | 19.9% | 27 |
Block Bin | 100 | 31.0% | 6 |
Whiteboard Markers | 100p | 23.7% | 13 |
Tilted Towers | 100 | 57.1% | 3 |
Redemption | 100 | 30.0% | 9 |
Comments
Who's excited
not me I am not excited