Selection Rules

Japan-based teams, or teams whose members belong to a university/college in Japan, are selected for the Asia Regional Fukuoka On Site Contest as follows:

Prerequisite
The team participated in the Domestic Contest held on June 24, 2011.

Step 1
The following procedures are performed for all teams in decreasing order of their scores. Let A be the team of interest.

Rule 1:
If the total number of teams selected so far is less than 5:
A is selected as a participant in the Asia Regional Fukuoka On Site Contest, unless 4 teams are already selected from the same university/college.

Rule 2:
If the total number of teams selected so far is less than 10:
A is selected as a participant in the Asia Regional Fukuoka On Site Contest, unless 3 teams are already selected from the same university/college.

Rule 3:
If the total number of teams selected so far is less than 20:
A is selected as a participant in the Asia Regional Fukuoka On Site Contest, unless 2 teams are already selected from the same university/college.

Rule 4:
If the total number of teams selected so far is less than 25:
A is selected as a participant in the Asia Regional Fukuoka On Site Contest, unless another team is already selected from the same university/college.

Rule 5:
The team, which solves one ore more problems, with the highest score among those with one or more female contestants and with no other teams from the same university/college selected in the step 1 is selected as a participant in the Asia Regional Fukuoka On Site Contest.

Step 2
If the number of selected teams is less than 27 after Step 2: The remaining participants will be selected by the Asia Regional Fukuoka On Site Contest director taking in consideration the results of the Nationwide Internet Contest (Domestic Contest).

Exception
If a selected team declines the invitation, an additional team is selected through the Step 2.