Greetings, Codeforces Community!

We are thrilled to invite you to CodeFest, a premier competitive programming event brought to you by IICPC, co-sponsored by Citadel, with more amazing sponsors like Jump Trading, Jane Street, Hudson River Trading (HRT), Landeed, and QuantInsti.

The camp is being hosted by the 8 IITs namely Madras, Delhi, Bombay, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kharagpur, Roorkee and Indore and we are grateful for the same!

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Inspiration

In late 2024, Ayush and I were wondering what could be done next to improve the Competitive Programming Culture around us. That is when we realised that India is very short of good quality competitive programming contests. The last India specific large contest we had was CodeChef Snackdown which was unfortunately discontinued.

With an aim to have more exciting and enriching contests in India, we decided to host CodeFest, and we are very happy that we along with the team are here today to invite you for the same.

Details

• Codefest is a 3 stage Individual Contest
• Stage 1 (Prelims) : To be held on Codechef on 12th February 8pm IST
• Stage 2 (Offline Regionals) : 2 Multisite Regionals to be held across 8 IITs.
• Stage 3 (Grand Finale) : To be held in Research Park IIT Madras on 5th and 6th April 2025.

Note : Accomodation for Regionals would have to be managed. For Grand Finale, we have booked good accomodation for all the finalist. We recommend you to pick your closest Regional Center as preference in the registeration form.

Qualification

• (Prelims to Regionals) : In the CodeChef Contest, all divisions will have all problems. Top 400 over the aggregate ranklist will move on to the Offline Regionals.
• (Regionals to Finale) : Top 25 participants from each of the 2 regionals will move on the the Grand Finale.

Goodies and Prizes

We want to make this event very memorable for each and every participant so we have decided to have the following prizes:

• 1st Prize: ₹1,00,000
• 2nd Prize: ₹75,000
• 3rd Prize: ₹50,000
• 4th Prize: ₹25,000
• 5th — 10th Prize: ₹10,000
• Finalist Medals, Tshirts, Goodie Bags and Certificates for all 50 Finalists
• Regionalist Tshirts, Goodie Bags and Certificates for all Regionalists
• Trophies for the top performer at Regional Center during Regionals.
• Trophies for the top 3 winners in the Grand Finals.
• 2 Quant Courses worth ₹2,00,000 each to be given away.

Problemsetting & Testing Team

A massive thank you to our amazing problemsetting and testing team:

abhijain565aj, aditya_neer, shorya1835, weirdflexbutok, ho-oh, Abhi6645, yuvrajKharayat, TyroWhizz, Cypherre, sai-17, harshith_04, reroot, akkafakka, BladeRunner, Prady, rizz_wizz, ShreyHehe, Proelectro444, mhtkrag

And a huge thanks to the rest of the team who made this possible!

How to Register

Head over to the official IICPC website to register. Don’t miss out on this chance to showcase your skills, compete for glory, and explore potential career opportunities in the world of quantitative finance and technology.

Mark your calendars and gear up for an unforgettable CodeFest experience!

Best Wishes,
Team IICPC