The following Region-Specific Rules are added to the ACM Regional Contest General Rules:

• The Southern California region consists of California south of and including San Luis Obispo, Kern, and San Bernardino counties, and Clark County, Nevada.

• By registering a team, a coach certifies the eligibility of the team members.

• With only a few exceptions, contestants may not bring ANY electronic devices. This rule includes electronic calculators, watches with calculators, PDAs, cellular phones, pagers, laptops, and personal audio and/or video players. We will be collecting these items in the computer labs. If you don't want to leave them at home, we suggest that you arrange with your coach or other non-contestant to hold the items for you during the contest. We will allow watches without calculator or programming functions, medical devices such as glucometers, and cameras.

  As a reminder, you may not bring machine-readable versions of software and data. (In other words, leave the floppies, CDs, DVDs, USB flash disks, etc., at home. We do plan to disable floppy drives and USB ports on the workstations during the contest.) You may bring non-electronic resources such as textbooks and paper documents. (Please note that the World Finals has more restrictive rules about the materials that may be brought to the contest.) During the contest, you may use any online documentation that has been installed as part of the contest environment.

• During the contest, contestants are to use the network only to submit contest problems or questions and get responses from the contest officials. Connecting to any other computer on the LAN or Internet, either before or during the contest, with telnet, FTP, Web browser, email, or any other network application is grounds for expulsion from the contest.

• Notification of both accepted and rejected runs will continue through the end of the contest. Scores will continue to be updated through the end of the contest.

• All teams who solve at least one problem will be ranked

  • first by number of problems solved;
  • second by total elapsed time to each solution (measured to the second) plus a 1200-second (20-minute) penalty per rejected submission for problems that are eventually solved;
  • and third by fewest number of rejected submissions for problems that are eventually solved.

• C, C++, and Java will be the contest languages. Other languages may be added for future contests if the languages are supported at the World Finals and there is sufficient demand.

• Submitted source files must be no larger than 300000 bytes.

For more information, see the ACM-ICPC Regionals General Information web page.