Challenging the Geeks of Balochistan
Speed Programing Competition
Challenging The Geeks Of Balochistan (CGB) is a provincial competition in which teams of Startups, Computer Science/Engineering Students, Professionals (beginners, mid-careers) and Freelancers from Balochistan compete against each other to solve programming assignments in a prescribed time span.
Format of the Competition
CGB will be a team-based programming competition that fosters problem-solving, programming and team work skills amongst the participants. The competition will be held in phases – online as a preliminary phase, and on-site as a competition for those who qualify from the online phase.
The on-site event will be held over a period of two days; mock round will be conducted on first day while actual competition will be held on second day. Top three teams will be selected as winners.
Startups, Computer Science/Engineering Students, Professionals (beginners, mid-careers), Freelancers from Balochistan are encouraged to participate.
Venue
National Incubation Center
Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS)
Airport Road
Quetta
How To Participate
Participating in this challenge is free of cost but seats are limited.
Registration will be closed as soon as the seats are full.
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Competition Rules
CGB is a provincial competition in which teams of Startups, Computer Science/Engineering Students, Professionals (beginners, mid-careers) and Freelancers from Balochistan compete against each other to solve programming assignments in a prescribed time span.
Eligibility: Participants must compete as part of a team. A team is comprised of up to 3 members. Only those members who register in a team are allowed to participate in the competition. Universities and Colleges can have multiple teams. Only people residing in Balochistan are eligible. This program is Balochistan specific and people residing in other provinces/cities are not eligible at the moment.
Assignments: All assignments are developed and judged by experts. Assignments will be categorized as easy, medium, hard, and difficult. An assignment can be solved in any of the supported programming languages i.e., Java, C/C++, Python. Each assignment will have time and memory limits. Instructions for the contestants are enclosed.
Plagiarism: Ignite reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to review the submissions to detect any act of plagiarism and to disqualify any team identified (during or after the competition) for inappropriate collaboration, reuse of material, and/or failing to meet
the requirements as indicated by the contest rules.
Selection of Winners: Winners are selected based on overall score. In the case of a tie, time to complete
the assignment will be considered as a factor to grade teams.
CGB is a provincial competition in which teams of Startups, Computer Science/Engineering Students, Professionals (beginners, mid-careers) and Freelancers from Balochistan compete against each other to solve programming assignments in a prescribed time span.
Eligibility: Participants must compete as part of a team. A team is comprised of up to 3 members. Only those members who register in a team are allowed to participate in the competition. Universities and Colleges can have multiple teams. Only people residing in Balochistan are eligible. This program is Balochistan specific and people residing in other provinces/cities are not eligible at the moment.
Assignments: All assignments are developed and judged by experts. Assignments will be categorized as easy, medium, hard, and difficult. An assignment can be solved in any of the supported programming languages i.e., Java, C/C++, Python. Each assignment will have time and memory limits. Instructions for the contestants are enclosed here.
Plagiarism: Ignite reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to review the submissions to detect any act of plagiarism and to disqualify any team identified (during or after the competition) for inappropriate collaboration, reuse of material, and/or failing to meet
the requirements as indicated by the contest rules.
Selection of Winners: Winners are selected based on overall score. In the case of a tie, time to complete
the assignment will be considered as a factor to grade teams.
- Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering, and Management Sciences
- University of Balochistan, Quetta
- NUST Balochistan Campus, Quetta
- Alhamd Islamic University, Quetta
- University of Turbat, Kech
- Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water Marine Sciences, Uthal
- Balochistan University of Engineering Technologygy, Khuzdar
- University College of Zhob
- Mir Chakar Khan Rind University, Sibi
- University of Loralai
Winner: CS19, BUITEMS
1st Runner-Ups: Thunderbolts, NUST
2nd Runner-Ups: Pythonista, BUITEMS
Participants were also invited on the stage to share their experience of the competition. Team members from University of Balochistan showed immense gratitude to MoITT, Ignite and ICPC Asia for providing them with such platform where they can showcase their programming skills. Other participants also apprised the efforts and spoke about how the competition raised their confidence and motivated them for active participation in future programming contests.
