Columbia University
Sunday, November 9, 2025
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Bring your own laptop!!!
- This year contestants will be required to bring their own laptop to the contest.
- Please install the contest image and connect.
- Installation instructions as well as how to contact for technical support can be found here: ImageBurnUSB
Contest rules
Photographs will be available when compositing is complete. A link will appear here at that time.
Hosted by:Columbia University
Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
Schedule:
- 8:00am: Registration and Career Fair
- 8:00am - 11:00am: Breakfast
- 8:00am - 10:00am: Practice contest
- 10:00am - 11:00am: Opening Ceremony
- 11:00am - 4:00pm: Contest
- 1:00pm - 3:00pm: Coaches Meeting/Talks/Presentations
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm: Closing Ceremony and Dinner
Team Names
- Each team name must consist of the institution name (greater than 1 character but less than or equal to 8 characters) followed by a hyphen (-) followed by a team name (greater than 0 characters but less than or equal to 24 characters). Please note that spaces are counted as characters.
- Format:INSTITUTION-TEAMNAME
INSTITUTION = University name or abbreviation. 1 < length(INSTITUTION ) <= 8.
TEAMNAME = Your team name. 1 <= length(TEAMNAME) <= 24.
Each individual institution must use the same name for the INSTITUTION field.
Eg. If Binghamton University sends multiple teams each team must fill in the INSTITUTION field with the same name.
BU-TEAMNAME1
BU-TEAMNAME2
BU-TEAMNAME3
OR
SUNYBING-TEAMNAME1
SUNYBING-TEAMNAME2
SUNYBING-TEAMNAME3
Number of computers per team: 1
Regional Contest Technical Notes
Regional Contest Environment
Registration Deadline TBD
- First-time contestants: Create an account on the ICPC website here
- Returning contestants: Make sure your ICPC profile information is up-to-date here (including shirt size)
- Coaches: Once your contestants have accounts on the ICPC website, create your teams here
- T-Shirts - Please make sure to fill out the correct sizes for yourself and your team. Shirts must be ordered weeks in advance.
Eligibility
- Most first semester graduate students are allowed to participate. A team may be comprised of all first semester graduate students that meet eligibility requirements. If you have any questions about this please email the contest Director.
- For a complete list of rules and eligibility requirements, click here.
Cost:
- $175 each team (including one coach per school), plus $50 per guest.
PRACTICE CONTEST
- Each team will be required to participate in the ongoing practice contest.
- A link to the contest image will be emailed when available.
- Instructions to burn the image to an USB drive can be found here: ImageBurnUSB
- Each team will be assigned a login and password.
- Each team will be required to submit a correct and incorrect solution to a problem provided. This will help familiarize each team with the system and provide test data for the region.
- Failure to participate in one of the mock contests will result in a team receiving low priority should any technical issues arrise during the practice and/or actual contest on November 9.
Previous Years
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For More Information
contact the Contest Director Joe Terlizzi
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