Rutgers Competitive Programming is excited to invite you to participate in the open mirror of the Fall 2026 Rutgers Programming Contest, which will start Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)!

Note that this year there is a sign up process for online teams. Please sign up on the contest website in order to receive access on the day of the contest.

The problems were prepared and authored by MattTheNub, CutSandstone, sukon, snowythecat, nadya271, and ScalarField.

The contest is a 5-hour long ICPC-style team contest consisting of 15 problems. Team sizes can be anywhere from 1 to 3 people. Teams of more than one person are kindly requested to only use one computer for the contest.

We would like to thank:

• jdurie, thehunterjames, mgoldy925, surajchip2, awoo, and Neon for testing.
• nickbelov for telling us to join Headlands.

• Headlands Technologies

  ,

  Hudson River Trading

  , the

  Rutgers Computer Science Department

  , and

  Wegmans Food Markets

  for sponsoring.
• MikeMirzayanov for the wonderful Codeforces and Polygon platforms.
• and last but not least,

  You

  for participating!

Good luck, and we hope you enjoy the problems!