Cover Page
About the Contest
Registration and Other Preparations
The Event
Getting Contestants Ready
Contacting Us
Changes From Last Year

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Registration

For registration, you need to have an ACM/ICPC coach account. To create one, or to register your teams, please visit this page.

If you're considering participating but don't know the details of participating students, please register now to guarantee slots for your teams. You can enter the details of the students at a later time.

Last day for registration is November 26, 2004. Please register early.

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Planning Your Trip

All teams must arrive to Kuwait no later than Tuesday November 30, 2004 evening.

The event will start at 9:00am on Wednesday December 1, 2004. The event will last for two days. It will end late night Thursday December 2, 2004. The earliest time for departure is Friday December 3.

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Travel Support

We have a limited travel support grant. The only travel support we can offer at this point is US$ 500 payable upon arrival. The rules for travel support are:

  1. Application for travel support is for institutes and not for teams: One travel support grant per institute.
  2. The institute whose team have won a national contest will be granted a travel grant.
  3. Priority is for institutes participating for the first time.
  4. Priority is for countries whose Kuwait Airways travel cost to Kuwait exceeds US$ 350 per ticket.
  5. Otherwise, it's first-requested, first-granted basis.
Please send an email to travel@acm.kuniv.edu for further information or to request travel support.

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Accommoations

As announced in the call-for-participation document, Kuwait University will be covering the accommodation cost for one team (a maximum of three contestants and a coach,) per participating institute.

The prices for the hotel are:

OccupencyPrice per night
in KDin US$
Single35.000about $115.00
Double45.000about $150.00
Triple55.000about $185.00

Team coaches will be contacted for room details. In the mean time, feel free to send email to travel@acm.kuniv.edu

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Visa to Kuwait

We are now accepting requests for Visas. To help us speed up the process, please make sure we receive clear photocopies (or scans,) of passports. Also it would be better if one coach per institute handles this process for all applicants from their institute.

You may email or fast-courier your documents. But first make sure you read the following instructions carefully:

  1. GCC citizens don't require a visa to enter Kuwait.
  2. Your passport must be valid for at least six months from December. The expiry date should be no sooner than June 2005.
  3. Please send clear photocopies of vital passport pages. This should include all pages of personal information including: names, parents' names, birth place and date, passport issue place and date.
  4. Make sure to include the first page of the passport that indicates the issuing country and the passport number (in print, not perforation.)
  5. If you're not a citizen of the country you're currently resident in, please photocopy the page that shows a valid residency permit.
  6. If your passport has been renewed, make sure to include the renewal page.
  7. For fast courier, use the following address: 
    Dr. Ziad H. Najem
Kuwait University, Shuwaikh Campus
Center of Information Systems.
P.O.Box 5969, Safat Kuwait 13060
Tel. +965 484-4931
  8. For email, send the scanned passport pages (.bmp, .gif, or .jpg) to visa@acm.kuniv.edu. When scanning, use 150dpi setting (no more, no less, plz.) Don't enlarge or shrink the paper size; Keep it 100%

    In your email, please include the following information: Name, Email, University, Nationality, Passport #, and number of attached scanned passport pages.

    Pack the scans of each applicant in a separate zip file. Use the passport number as a name for the zip file.

  9. IF you have any questions regarding the visa procedure, send email to manager@acm.kuniv.edu

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