Event Overview
MoraXtreme 5.0 is a 12 hour all island inter university algorithmic coding competition organized by the IEEE Computer Society University of Moratuwa, was held on 10th October 2020, 6:00 AM onwards on HackerRank platform. Total of 15 questions with varying difficulty levels, were given to the competitors.
A virtual awareness session was held prior to the competition on 3rd October 2020. Speakers for the session were two members from winning teams of MoraXtreme 3.0. They shared their valuable experiences, coding tips and tricks with participants. Vtools link : https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/240664
Purpose
MoraXtreme is organized with the intention of enhancing the number of top rankers from Sri Lanka in IEEEXtreme coding competition and to encourage Sri Lankan undergraduate student participation in coding competitions.
Event Order
- Awareness session – 3rd October 2020
- MoraXtreme 5.0 – 10th October 2020
- Award ceremony – Data TBA
The awarding ceremony was planned to be held at the university premises with the presence of Mr. Gihan Dias (Founder and CEO of LK Domain Registry) as the chief guest. The winners were planned to be gifted with cash prizes as below.
- 1st Place: A cash prize of LKR 20,000
- 2nd Place: A cash prize of LKR 15,000
- 3rd Place: A cash prize of LKR 10,000
Because of the prevailing Covid-19 spread in the country, awarding ceremony was postponed and it will be held as soon as the university starts.
Guest Speakers for the awareness session
Guest speakers for the awareness session are,
- Mr. Supun Abeysinghe – Research assistant at National University of Singapore, member of MoraXtreme 3.0 winning team
- Mr. Isuru Manchanayake – PhD student at Purdue University, member of MoraXtreme 3.0 winning
Participation
More than 210+ teams, consisting of 510+ participants competed in MoraXtreme 5.0.
Team registrations – MoraXtreme 5.0
Leaderboard
Feedback on MoraXtreme 5.0
“MoraXtreme 5.0 was a good opportunity to apply our programming skills to solve algorithmic challenges. Those 12 hours were filled with fun and excitement. All teams competed for surpassing each other. The problems were well designed covering a lot of areas and to be honest some questions were really hard to solve. It was a nice experience and thank you all the organisers for your effort. Sadly, this will be our last year participating in MoraXtreme and wish you all the best for the upcoming years.” – Team KOS (Winner, MoraXtreme 5.0)
“Moraxtreme5.0 proved to be one of the steppingstones of success for our team. Organizing such an event at this scale, improving it to be a national level competitive programming event to help the undergraduates compete in IEEEXtreme is an impressive feat.” – Team Think (Second runners up, MoraXtreme 5.0)
“Good competition to participate as a preparation for IEEEXtreme but I think the time gap between the competitions are too narrow. If you could increase the duration to 24hours , it would be very nice. Good luck on future work” – Team NSN (6, MoraXtreme 5.0)
“It’s a good way to test your critical thinking skills against time. There were easy, medium and hard questions so everyone can choose depending on their skill level” – Team 404 (41, MoraXtreme 5.0)
Challenges we faced
We successfully organized MoraXtreme5.0, but not without challenges.
• Given the pandemic situation in the country, we were unable to find sponsors for the events as most of the companies we reached for were in a difficult position financially.
• We conducted awareness sessions virtually but found difficulties when it came to connectivity and coverage issues.
• We had to go out of our usual plan of organizing 2 to 3 rounds in MoraXtreme and were only able to conduct one round this year because of Covid 19 and due to the time constraints.
Amid all these challenges, with the untiring efforts of the organizing committee we were able to hold the events successfully.
