Russian Code Cup 2016: for the first time in English

This year, the Russian Code Cup sports programming championship will be held in an unusual format - in English. In previous years, thousands of Russian-speaking applicants from around the world fought for the title of the strongest programmer. But those who do not know the great and mighty, could not take part in the hot programmer battles. Now the Russian Code Cup is entering the international level without any reservations, because English today is the language of international communication.

During the competition, the most talented and fast programmer will be determined, the results will be evaluated at once by two criteria: quality and speed. The Russian Code Cup gives young programmers an excellent opportunity to demonstrate their skills and gain recognition from the professional community, including the English-speaking one.

The main program of the championship consists of three stages:
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• qualifying rounds (May 8, May 29 and June 5),
• qualifying round (June 19)
• and finals (September 18).

At each stage of the championship participants must solve from four to eight diverse tasks. Programmers who are unlucky in the first qualifying round may try their luck in the following. The top 200 participants from each qualifying round will go to the qualifying round, and 50 best programmers will fight in the final.

Tasks and technical part of the competition are provided by Mail.Ru Group experts and experts of ITMO University - co-organizer of the championship.

This year the prize fund of the championship will be 750 thousand rubles.

• The winner will receive 150 thousand rubles.
• Winners of the second and third places - 100 thousand and 65 thousand rubles, respectively.
• Programmers who took from 4th to 10th places will get 30 thousand rubles each,
• from 11th to 25th place - 15 thousand rubles.
• The 200 best participants in the qualifying round will receive T-shirts with the symbols of the championship.

You can familiarize yourself with examples of tasks, learn detailed rules for holding the Russian Code Cup, and see photo reports from past Olympiads here: http://www.russiancodecup.ru/ .

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