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 20.4% 28
Block Bin 100 31.0% 6
Whiteboard Markers 100p 23.7% 13
Tilted Towers 100 57.1% 3
Redemption 100 30.0% 9

Comments


  • 0
    cszm789  commented on March 29, 2025, 12:50 a.m.

    Who's excited


    • 0
      ski  commented on March 29, 2025, 12:57 a.m.

      not me I am not excited