Background

One of the regionals in India was scheduled to be held at Hindustan University at Chennai on December 17 — 18, 2015. Unfortunately Chennai was stuck by a natural disaster. The entire Southern India received heavy rainfall and hence there was a lot of flooding at many places including Chennai around that time. About 347 people died in the state of Tamil Nadu (including Chennai). The damage due to the floods overall in South India is estimated to be atleast USD 3 Billion. It is the costliest flood in 2015.

Ofcourse, due to this the Chennai regionals were postponed. I think everyone here will agree that this was an unexpected, unprecedent situtation and hence it was entirely understandable that the regionals were postponed.

The Blog post

Dr. C J Hwang is the ICPC Asia director. In response to the above postponement he posted a blog article on his blog. You can read it here. Please read it as this post deals with that announcement.

Quote from the blog: "In the 20 years of ACM-ICPC Asia history, we never had the case of contest postponement." Comment: That is just luck. It is great luck that there never was any problem during any of the Asia regionals during the past 20 years.

Quote from the blog: "Several years ago, Vietnam contest had a flood and I was there. I walked over the deep water.I was wet with pants and shoes. Vietnam committee did not request any postponement." Comment: Wet pants and shoes, seriously? This seems like a minor water logging not a major, destructive flood.

Quote from the blog: "To avoid any future abuse of asking postponement to cover the un-readiness and the irresponsibility of hosting the contest ..." Comment: Abuse? To cover un readiness and irresponsibility? What exactly does Dr. Hwang want the organizers to do? How can you conduct a coding contest when there is a water 2 storeys high? How is this un readiness or abuse? The flights/train/bus