KCSL Rules

1. Eligibility

2. Participating Institutions (Teams)

An institution may participate in multiple levels but not in multiple Divisions. (e.g. ABC Academy can choose to participate in Intermediate 3 and Senior 5 but NOT in Intermediate 3 AND Intermediate 5.)
Different students may compete in different rounds, and there is no limit to the number of the students in each team. (e.g. A team that wishes to compete for Senior 3 can register with 10 students.)
An adult team advisor must be available to handle communications with the registered students.

3. Contests

All Preliminary Contests are administered as online tests on the Goorm platform.
With an exception of a dictionary, no resources including the Internet and human assistance are allowed during the tests.
Both Short Problems (Theory) and Programming have five test problems, each of which is worth 1 point (10 points total).

4. Short Problems (Theory)

Five problems are given in this part.
One point is awarded for each answer that matches the ACSL solution.
The time limit is 30 minutes for the Junior, Intermediate, and Senior Division.
The only materials allowed for the short answer tests are plain paper and a writing implement. Calculators are not allowed.

5. Programming

Five test data are given in this part.
One point is awarded for each program output that matches ACSL's test output.
Students have 3 hours to submit their programming solution.
Students must work alone in programming their code.
Any programming language may be used, however, Java, C, C++, Python, or Python 3 are recommended.

6. Scores

A team score is the sum of the best 3 or 5 student scores for each contest.
All team scores are posted on ACSL Homepage.
Based on cumulative scores from the four preliminary rounds, about 80 teams are invited to the All Star Contest (the Finals).
Due to COVID-19, an online Finals as an individual contest was hosted in lieu of an All Star Contest in 2019-2020.

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