Banff Logistics

This page has information about logistics for the trip to the ACM Programming Contest World Finals in Banff, Alberta, from April 6-10, 2008.

Who is going?

Patrick, Anton, Henry, Chris, Robert, (Simon?), Cedric, Andrew, Ducky, Jim DLH, Yury, Igor N, and Simon Lo. 13 total.

Registration

Our registration slot is 8pm on Sunday 6 April.

At on-site registration, participants must provide picture ID (passport, driver’s license, etc). Contestants must show proof of enrollment at the university during the term of the regional contest at which they qualified. A letter on university stationary with the signature of a university official accompanied by an English translation is sufficient.

Schedule

Note that things start at 8 or nine every day.

Hotel

UBC^ is staying at the Banff Springs Fairmont Hotel -- the blue A on the map

The department balked at paying for $420/night rooms for UBC*, but they are willing to pay something around $200/room. I was worried that cheaper hotels would be a impossibly loooong way away, but it turns out they are only an annoyingly long way away.

• Elkhorn Lodge sounds like it has really nice rooms and is about 1km away.
  • $215/3 Suite 3 -- one queen, one double futon
  • $180/2-4 Suite 4 -- two queens

Remember that "double" says the size, not number of people. A "double" is smaller than a queen.

• • $245/2-6 Suite 5 -- two queens, sleeper sofa, futon, kitchen, fireplace
  • $105/2 Rooms 6-9 -- one queens or two singles

Transportation in Banff

There is a local bus service called the "Happy Bus" which runs until midnight ($2 fare), and which goes everywhere we want to go. It looks dead-easy.

Tentative room assignments / locations

These are all really tentative. If you don't like them, let me know.

• Patrick, Anton -- Fairmont (paid for by IBM)
• Henry, Simon S? -- Fairmont (paid for by IBM)
• Ducky, Jim -- Fairmont (tentative, paid for by dept)
• Chris, Robert (somewhere, paid for by dept)
• Cedric, Andrew (somewhere, paid for by selves)

Free money!

The UPE Computer Science Honor Society provides $300 to each team attending the UPE Business Meeting, typically held the day before the World Finals, plus an additional $450 to teams representing institutions with UPE chapters or who are in the process of establishing UPE chapters. Teams must attend the UPE Business Meeting to receive the UPE funds.

-- DuckySherwood - 23 Nov 2007