ESYA’13, IIIT Delhi’s Tech fest is back!!

Indraprastha institute of information technology, Delhi’s techfest ESYA is back

About ESYA

‘Esya’ is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘exploration’ and stands testimony to our vision of exploring the unexplored and making the world a better place to live in.

Esya ’13 is the third version of IIIT-Delhi’s tech fest. On 3rd and 4th September 2011, the first techfest of IIIT-Delhi was held with remarkable enthusiasm and overwhelming participation. With about a dozen events attended by participants numbering around two grand, the technical festival has strung the right chord among the CS/IT students & enthusiasts of Delhi.

Vision for Esya ’13 is to bring together talented and motivated students from across India and provide them with a platform where they can explore and perform things differently.

Esya goes beyond being a simple Science and Technology competition. Unlike Aristotle’s principle of Episteme where your scientific knowledge needs to be governed by a first principle, we encourage participants to make their own first principles based on what they believe to be correct.

Institute aim to nurture the ideas that come forth in the spirit of healthy competition. To accomplish the same, we intend to create opportunities such as collaboration among students and industry guidance to materialize such ideas.

Events at ESYA’2013

PROCON JUNIOR

Procon Junior, the flagship event of ESYA brings together the top programmers from schools of all over Delhi-NCR under one roof for a fierce battle, testing not only their programming ability and concepts but also their knowledge of the chosen language (one out of C, C++ or Java).
You say you are a good programmer? Prove it and we will welcome you as one of our own.
IIIT-Delhi would offer bonus marks during admission to the ones who come out unscathed.
That’s not all, there are many more amazing prizes for grab!
Sharpen your weapon of choice and get ready to go against the best. The pride of your school rides on you, carve its name atop the rank tables and be rewarded. You will be on your own against the multiple intense rounds full of heat and vigour, which will surely ignite sparks! Get ready for the biggest battle ever!

EVENT STRUCTURE

Preliminary Round:
The preliminary round will be of two hours and would contain two sub-rounds:

1 Programming Round:
The programming round would be of 1.5 hours and would require the contestant to solve upto 3 problems in the least time. Each problem would be of different type:

• Jmulbed_Life() : The contestant would require to unjumble the provided jumbled-up code so that the code produces the expected output as per the problem statement.
• We are Satan, You are God: The contestant would require to debug the provided code such that the code produces the expected output as per the problem statement.
• CodeIt: The contestant would require to write his own code for the given problem.

2 Quiz:
The quiz would be of 20 minutes and would contain multiple-type choice-based questions and one word or one line questions on general programming in preferred language (C, C++ or Java – any one!).

Scoring:

• 20 points shall be awarded for each question correctly solved, thus the maximum achievable marks for the programming round being 60.
• The maximum marks for the quiz shall be 30.
• Participants would be ranked on the basis of their total score (out of 90).
• In case of a tie, the tie would be broken on time taken to solve the programming questions.

Final Round:

A TWO hour event, consisting only of a programming round.

TECHATHLON

Techathlon will test teams on a number of skills and a wide variety of technical challenges. From programming to systems management, the winning team will have to specialize in several areas. This two-day marathon will put your efficiency and speed across a multitude of tasks to the test.

Teams with the highest aggregate scores will progress to the finale, Toast to Code. Details of this event are secret, and will be revealed on the spot!

ROBOCON

White line took my baby
Led him down that dark highway
Headlight blind, driving crazy
If my wheels keep turning
Gonna roll that white line away

IIITD presents their Robotics Event for their Techfest-Esya ’13.

This event is the breeding ground for revolutionary ideas and dazzling innovations with teams competing with Line Following Robots over 3 exciting rounds.

Prizes worth Rs. 32,000 to be won!

Let’s kick some RoButt!

EVENT STRUCTURE

Round 1:

Oh there’s an answer waiting for us down that road
Yeah that freeway that’s the only home we know
No time for slowing down, no there’s just another town to find
Following that white line

This round would test your machine’s basic capabilities. The way it can follow the pattern(ofcourse), turn and face bends.

Need more hint?
Here you go:

Click on the Picture to Enlarge. Images shown are just sample tracks and the event may/may not have the same tracks.

Round 2:

Lost myself tryin’ to track you down
Though you’ll never be found
The circle closes in ’round and ’round
Lost myself tryin’ to track you down
Though you cannot be found
Circle closes in ’round and ’round

Need more hint?
Here you go:

Click on the Picture to Enlarge. Images shown are just sample tracks and the event may/may not have the same tracks.

Round 3:

Now that’s only for those who cross all our previous, glorious, dangerous hurdles.
This round’s details would be revealed only to the shortlisted teams.

OVERNIGHT HACKATHON

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know.
— George Kneller

Esya 2013, in association with the ACM Chapter and Nokia, IIIT-Delhi presents the Overnight Hackathon, a new 16 hour application development competition aimed at fostering innovation and creativity among developers and designers. Learn and build in this confluence of programming and creative skills. We provide you the theme; you work your magic.

It’ll be a night of innovation and cutting edge development.

PWNED!

So, the most happening, most incredible, most awaited college gaming event in Delhi is back, and this time we come up with prizes worth a total of Forty grands. We bring forth games with incredible player bases like Dota 2, Counter Strike, Fifa, NFS MW and all that we fashion. As we know it, we’re calling for an all night LAN party.

So bring your gear, bring all your support and all you need to rip out on everyone against.
INB4 lots of drama, lots of action, lots of everything.

REBUTTAL

What good is an idea if it doesn’t sell?

At Esya 2013, the technical festival of IIIT Delhi, we invite all passionate orators to participate in Rebuttal, a GD-Extempore-Debate competition.
This event will test your ability to put forward your views as convincingly as possible.

EVENT STRUCTURE

It is a three tiered event.
The first round is the group discussion round, the second round the extempore one and the final round is the debate.

A GD group will comprise of 7-10 participants, all on the same side of the final debate topic. Shortlisted participants will move on for the Extempore round, which will give us our final ten (five people for the motion and 5 against the motion). After this, it is simply you against the other 9 finalists.Own them all and you win!

Note: All participants will be asked to declare the side of the debate that they are on before the start of the event, as their Round 1 (GD) groups will be decided by this.

First Round:Group Discussion(GD)

• GD group size: 7-10 (participants on the same side of the final debate motion)
• Topic: Will be given on-the-spot.
• Preparation time: 5 minutes
• Discussion time limit: 10 minutes per group.
• The top 24 participants (12 people for the motion and 12 people against it) from this round move forward to the Extempore round.

Second Round:Extempore

• Topic: A visual cue will be displayed on-the-spot (different cues for different participants).
• Preparation time: 45 seconds
• Time limit: 2 minutes (warning bell would be struck at 1 minute 45 seconds).

The top 10 participants (top 5 for and top 5 against) go to the final debate round.

Final Round:Debate

• Topic: Google Knows Everything: Time to Worry?
• Time limit: 3 minutes per speaker (warning bell would be struck at 2.5 minutes).
  At most three interjections would be allowed per speaker.

VIDEO DUBBING

Esya’ 13 presents our promo event “Video-dub” the Online Video Dubbing Contest. It’s sweet and simple. We’ll give you a few videos and you dub them in a comical way.

Prize:
A Flipkart gift voucher of Rs. 1000/- is to be won.

Disclaimer: Prizes are subject to the quality of entries, and would be given at the discretion of the Judges and Esya OC.

Eligibility:
Anyone from all over India can take part.

Rules:

• There is no entry fee.
• There will be one round. You’ll be given 3 videos, dub them in a comical manner. The winner will be decided by the number of likes on the video.
• Register on our website and post the video on YouTube, and then provide us with a link to your video. The videos will be disclosed on the 15th July, 2013.
• A short caption with every entry. Limit of 200 characters.
• No scene should be cut/added/edited in the video.
• The dubbing should not infringe on third party rights.
• The language should be either Hindi/English.
• There should not be any profanity, offensive language or otherwise objectionable material in any submission.
• Any video that fails to adhere to the rules will be rejected.
• Judges’ decision is final.

The three videos that need to be dubbed are :

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edLB6YWZ-R4
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPTAjNVvrYg
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvILGIIVsMU

P.S.: Please include the following in your description when publishing the video on YouTube -

With respects to the original authors, it is hereby declared that we don’t hold any copyrights and do not claim to be the authors of this video. No offense intended.

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