Attention Avengers!

Gear up to support Iron Man on his quest to secure the legendary Infinity Stones through the Competitive Programming Contest of NITS HACKS 9.0, brought to you by the Coding Club of NIT Silchar! Dive into the excitement of team-based coding challenges and vie for fantastic prizes!

Prizes (Overall): 1st Prize: INR 30K 2nd Prize: INR 22K 3rd Prize: INR 17K 4th Prize: INR 14K 5th Prize: INR 12K Prizes (NITS Only): 1st Prize: INR 9K 2nd Prize: INR 6K

Who Can Join?

Everyone is welcome to participate in the contest! However, only undergraduate students enrolled in Bachelor's or Dual Degree programs in India are eligible to receive prizes.

Contest Format:

• The contest will follow ICPC guidelines.
• It will be a team contest lasting 4 hours.

If you're ready to help the Avengers take on the challenge, join us for a coding showdown. Don't miss this chance to prove yourself and show everyone that Earth's mightiest heroes are ready to assemble!

Rules:

• A team of 2–3 members from the same college is required to participate in the contest.
• An eligible individual may join only one team.
• Each participant must have a Codeforces account.
• A team must be created on Codeforces comprising all its members.
• You must register for the contest using the formed team.
• Usage of LLMs and other unfair means is strictly prohibited, in accordance with Codeforces rules.
• The team must also register through the link provided below. Failure to do so will make the team ineligible for winning prizes.
• Further details regarding mandatory screen recording will be updated soon.

Registration Link

Please join this WhatsApp group for further updates.

Contest Time: Nov/10/2026 18:00 (Moscow time)

Click on the link below to participate in the contest. Registration for the contest will start 6 hours before the contest.

Contest Link

The problems are authored by pranavachaitanyaballa, NorLui, Akshayy-Singh, lolzxii, iZenith, Dishank35117, mnshg and Geetansh_123.

We would like to thank:

• DNR, karock, itsiftikar02, Denominator18 and others who wanted to stay anonymous, for their valuable testing and feedback.
• SleeepyHead and Eshan129 for their hard work behind the scenes.
• MikeMirzayanov for the amazing Codeforces and Polygon platforms.
• And You for participating!