Online Contest:

Online Contest is that teams are free to solve the problems from anywhere in Asia through Internet. Registration for Online Contest is compulsory.  Team members must compulsorily go through the eligibility rules for participating in the ICPC before registration. Registration is for one team consisting of three contestants and one coach. A coach means one who is full time faculty member of the university/institution where the contestants pursue their studies.

Duration of online contests is of 4 hours.  Problems for online contest will be posted in the website (URL is given beforehand) and the registered contestants will have to login into the site during the time specified in the website to view these problems.  Contestants are free to write the source code in one of the three languages - C/C++/Java.  Contestants need the operating system and programming environment in their local machine as specified in the website. For this, they should visit the contest environment requirements page in the website.  Prior to the contest, user ID and password will be sent to registered teams by email for uploading the source code to the server.

Onsite Contest

From the teams participated in the online contest, 50 teams are selected to participate in the Asia Region ICPC to be held at Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus.  All the teams must have done their registration in ICPC Baylor site. In five hour of duration, teams are required to solve 8 problems successfully.

History

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) traces its roots to a competition held at Texas A & M in 1970 hosted by the Alpha Chapter of the UPE Computer Science Honor Society. The idea quickly gained popularity within the United States and Canada as an innovative initiative to challenge the top students in the emerging field of computer science. The contest evolved into a multi-tier competition with the first Finals held at the ACM Computer Science Conference in 1977.

Operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University since 1989, the contest has expanded into a global network of universities hosting regional competitions that advance teams to the ACM-ICPC World Finals. Since IBM became sponsor in 1997, the contest has increased by a factor of eight (8X). Participation has grown to involve several tens of thousands of the finest students and faculty in computing disciplines at 1,821 universities from 83 countries on six continents. The contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. Quite simply, it is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. The annual event is comprised of several levels of competition: Local Contests - Universities choose teams or hold local contests to select one or more teams to represent them at the next level of competition.

Selection takes place from a field of over 300,000 students in computing disciplines worldwide. Regional Contests - (September to December) — Last year, participation increased by 10% from 6,099 to 6,700 teams representing 1,821 universities from 83 countries on six continents, not counting numerous teams competing in preliminaries. World Finals - One hundred (100) world finalist teams will compete for awards, prizes and bragging rights. These teams represent the best of the finest universities on six continents - the cream of the crop.