Again it's 6:00 am ...

i'm saying : "es7o ylla 3shan 3wzen nnzl nftar we ntla3 bsor3a nktb sf7et el math fe el library"

they woke up .. my hand is in bad state so i didn't participate in writing ..

we finished writing it then attached it to our library (3 typical versions)

We were late so we took the last Bus - which wait every last person to go .. so we arrived at the end of the talk of Bill Boucher (the executive director of ACM ICPC World Finals)

he was very funny -- if you forgot your ID so you have to do 10 "d3't" and he has to put his shoes on your t-shirt

one of the judges forgot his ID and he had to do so :D

it's dress rehearsal time (Practice session - like a demo contest with real problems so they can test the Contest environment)

Some rules you have to hear .. i heard But the funny thing that the speaker was Bill Boucher and he is so funny

one thing he said :"you have to be here with your t-shirt as outer layer and your badge - Don't bring any other thing"

so contestants asked them and he said "you can of course have your glasses and your totem also"

again contestants asked him about pants :D and he said " it's not important the most important thing is your badge and your t-shirt so if you don't want to wear pants :D you don't have too, But some marshals(runners) may not like that :D"

it's 9:30 am, it's the time to start the practice contest ... we started to solve and we managed to finish the three problems we had .. and got a good rank

we were happy for our performance and Dr.Salwa & our coach started to believe that we are gonna make a new achievement in the real contest

After the rehearsal(12:00 pm) we went to have our lunch at the university dining hall (the same place as the previous day)

From 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm there was "IBM Fun Activities"

it was a very funny activities they told us that every team will have to finish some games.

this activity was consist of 3 levels:

The first level is solving easy sudoku and making 4 cars .. of small peaces they gave to us (as my hand was not well i took the sudoku and they took the cars .. after i finished my suduko i was helping them in making these 4 cars)

The second level (after finishing the first) solving medium sudoku and making a horse toy and another big toy too ( i solved the sudoku and then helped them)

after that,

The Third level: solving Hard sudoku and making a real bicycle :D -- again i solved the sudoku and tried to help then on the bicycle

We finished all three levels and moved to "IBM Technology show case"

during the "IBM show case" they held a contest between all continent - a strange contest they chose from every continent contestants 5 so they could represent their continent and i was selected in the team of EuroAfrica.

The questions was strange "i.e. telling a story then asking what is the expected number of cars that will be in china in 2020"

we were close to win but we didn't - it finished with score 4:3:1 (our team was 3)

After that we went back to our hotel, have our dinner -- watched the ICPC challenge Finals

then went to our room so we could sleep.

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it's again 6:00 am - the ICPC world finals day.

it was a very strange day ... none of us was in good mood and we all lost our concentration.

we never did that bad in a contest - we participated as a team together in more than 60 contests But that was the strangest - problems were easy but we didn't manage to solve more than one problem (i think if we were in form we would solve 5-6 problems in this contest)

strange situation that in the contest we faced a problem that we have solved one like it before - But during the contest we couldn't - after the contest finished (on the same minute we said the solution was "Grid Compression") that was strange .. But "thanks Allah i'm sure that is the best for us"

after the contest i wasn't in mood, i didn't know how could i look in my coaches face. But i believed that our real level qualify us to solve more than 5 problems and that was because Allah doesn't want us to do that and that was the best for us to do so. so i said "el7mdllah" and moved on.

At the end of this day there was closing ceremony it has great shows and i enjoyed it.