Upcoming World Finals ICPC 2019

The 2019 World Finals will be held in Porto, Portugal, March 31 - April 5, 2019, hosted by Universidade do Porto.

The ACM-ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest) is considered as the "Olympics of Programming Competitions". It is quite simply, the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. The ICPC  is a multi-tier, team-based, programming competition. Headquartered at Baylor University, Texas, it operates according to the rules and regulations formulated by the ACM.

The ICPC traces its roots to 1970 with the first Finals in 1976.  Last year, 40,266 students from 3,098 universities from 111 countries on six continents competed for the privilege of advancing to the ICPC World Finals. Participation is open to students from every university in the world.

Teams finishing in the top four positions will be awarded Gold Medals. Those teams finishing fifth through eighth place will be awarded Silver Medals. Those teams finishing ninth through twelfth place will receive Bronze Medals. Additional Bronze Medals may be awarded to teams solving the same number of problems as the twelfth place team and in a total elapsed time no more than 60 minutes more than the twelfth place team. Such teams will be awarded twelfth place.

The highest scoring team is the World Champion and will receive the World Champion Cup and plaques. The other top eleven teams, the Africa & Middle East Champions, the Asia East Champions, the Asia Pacific Champions, the Asia West Champions, the Europe Champions, the Latin America Champions, the Northern Eurasia Champions, and the North America Champions will also receive plaques.

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In terms of prize money, the top team takes home $15,000 along with the ACM ICPC 2019 Gold medal. Three other teams getting Gold Medal are awarded $7,500. Each Silver Medal team gets $6,000 and each Bronze Medal team is awarded $3,000. Courtesy of the UPE Computer Science Honor Society, the First Solution Award will be $1,500. For the other solved problems, The First to Solve Award will be $1,200.

Full Schedule

Sunday March 31 - Arrival & Welcome
Monday April 01 - Registration/RCD/Host/Sponsor Hospitality Day
Tuesday April 02 - Excursion/Opening
Wednesday April 03 - Dress Rehearsal
Thursday April 04 - World Finals (2019 ICPC World Finals 11:00 to 17:00 hrs Porto time, 19:00 to 01:00 Singapore time)
Friday April 05 - Departure

ICPC World Finals 2019 Teams

ICPC World Finals 2019 Team Ratings
1: Russia's Moscow State University
2: USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3: Japan's The University of Tokyo
4: Poland's University of Warsaw
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22: UK's University of Cambridge (Team: Treenity, Contestants: Jeck Lim, Zoltán Molnár Sáska, David Wärn, Coach: Hayk Saribekyan)
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84: Singapore's National University of Singapore (Team: 3body2, Contestants: Sidhant Bansal,
Wei Heng Bay, Bernard Zhi Yi Teo, Coaches: Steven Halim, Suhendry Effendy)
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Immediate Past Result: ICPC World Finals 2018

Past ICPC World Finals Champions