The Collegiate Programming Competition is open to any department in any of the nine institutions. Each department can register up to two teams. However, each institution can field no more than three teams. Each team shall comprise one coach and three to four students, one of whom can be a graduate student. The coach must be a staff of the institution. Only three members will take part in the competition and the fourth shall be a reserve.

The team(s) shall represent their institution.

Registrations submitted for this competition will be subject to the recommendation of the departments concerned on the representing teams. The recommendations have to be submitted by May 2, 2001.,

The competition will be conducted at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on June 2, 2001. The teams will be given six problems to solve in four hours. Solution shall be submitted on-site through the computer network and all submissions will be automatically time-stamped and queued up on the Judges�� computers. Clarification of problems may be posted during the contest.

Each team will be provided with one personal computer and a shared printer on site.

A Panel of Judges will be responsible for determining the correctness of the submitted solutions by executing the submitted program with various test data sets on the judge's computer. Programs that execute correctly will contribute to the number of problems solved. Programs that do not execute correctly will be rejected.

Ranking is mainly based on the total number of problems solved. The total time spent on all the problems is used to break ties in ranking. Points will also be deducted for incorrect submissions made by each team.

Each team whose registration is accepted will receive a memorable souvenir and each team member will receive a Certificate of Participation.